Remember the good old days—when dissent was patriotic? Fuggedaboutit. Dissent isn't merely unpatriotic now. It's downright treasonous. Just ask Paul Krugman.
If, like virtually all House Republicans and a handful of Dems, you don't agree with the likes of Henry Waxman on the need to take radical measures on the climate, you're guilty of . . . "a form of treason." Treason against the planet, to be precise.
That was Krugman's formulation in his New York Times column of today, Betraying The Planet.
Krugman has obviously drunk deep from the carafe of Al Gore Kool-Aid, writing [emphasis added]:
"We’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself."
From there, it's an easy hop, skip and jump to branding those who don't go along with Obama-Waxman's economy-wrecking cap-and-tax bill as traitors. Perhaps Krugman could get Gore to record a re-mix of his famous clip accusing Pres. Bush of having "betrayed" the country.




















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Just like...
June 29, 2009 - 07:43 ET by Apodictic... all of the shivering, floor-wetting, yapping illuminati chihuahuas. Apparently, Krugman is attempting to guarantee his invitations to the Manhattan-Martini-Marionette parties later this year. BTW, are razors banned in NY?
HMMMM
June 29, 2009 - 07:43 ET by rick007Thoes on the left sure are scary. I deem thay are terroists. They have me terrified !!!!!!!!!!1
I've said it before and I'll say it again
June 29, 2009 - 07:44 ET by candanceDissention is the highest form of patriotism, until you annoy a Democrat.
HUH?
June 29, 2009 - 07:53 ET by notinstlI am truly beginning to despair....
The democrat-controlled house, once again, has passed an UNREAD bill that will spend Trillions, cost trillions, disable our economy and all based on unproven theories and flawed computer models. WHERE ARE THE SANE PEOPLE?
I wrote Krugman off a long time ago....certainly has devalued the whole nobel prize process........
The Sad Truth Is....
June 29, 2009 - 11:25 ET by GeneralAlThe sad truth of this disaster is the Republicans who voted for the bill allowing this thing to pass. In Illinois, our own Mark Kirk waffled and joined his Commie Colleagues to support this disaster. Guess what, Mark? If you're going to act like a Democrat, we're going to replace you with a Democrat! Ask Phil Crane what happens when you act like a Democrat! Can you say Melissa Bean?
And this guy won a
June 29, 2009 - 08:00 ET by rimskyAnd this guy won a Pulitzer, right?
To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial, you need to know about the grim turn taken by the latest climate research.
Of course, the run of the mill Joe on the street who updates their current events frame of reference bwo the msm, and guys like Krugman, will take the above mentioned so-called research as being the latest and greatest gospel on global climate change/warming and base ALL their thinking, discussions, decisions on this junk science, furthering the mad dash to a complete reversion of our way of life.
Meanwhile, there's a very common heat wave going on down south but up here in NYC, I don't think it's going to top 90 degrees more than three times between now and Labor Day. I actually have a bet with someone on that.
Pauli boy - you're disgraceful.
→ Rimsky
June 29, 2009 - 08:24 ET by Cool ArrowNo, actually this guy won a Nobel Prize.
But then again, so did that other great economist, Jimmah Carter.
Under my plan of a cap & trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket - BHO
I think there's some confusion.
June 29, 2009 - 09:03 ET by Jack HermanI think he actually won the Noble Gasbag Prize for inert grey matter.
Shocking! The NPP has lost
June 29, 2009 - 10:16 ET by rimskyShocking! The NPP has lost all it's credibility. Thanks for the correction Cool.
Is he serious?
June 29, 2009 - 08:06 ET by dduckw0rthIs he serious? I noticed liberals (and closet liberals) like to accuse normal people of what they themselves are guilty of, hoping you won't notice they are guilty; except it doesn't work well, and they come across as an idiot. If anyone has been committing treason, is krug and his minions. But don't say that, it's treason. Have another drink krug.
"The people have spoken! INDEED. Slightly over half don't have a CLUE what they spoke for. Enjoy the process as these people slowly get CLUES over a 4yr period. Painful, but enjoyable."
People like Krugman will
June 29, 2009 - 08:10 ET by rimskyPeople like Krugman will never "Get a Clue." I think they are so hardened in their sick elitist social dogma that truth just bounces off of them.
"We’re facing a clear and
June 29, 2009 - 08:07 ET by motherbelt"We’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself."
And exactly who is "play[ing] on our fears" now, Paul??
I just love how liberals re-define terms on their own terms. Paying through the nose in taxes is patriotic. Taxes are "investments." Dissent is the highest form of patriotism when a Republican President is in office' with a Democrat President, it's treason.
And now it is possible to commit "treason" against the planet.
When will the show trials start??
For the high crime of disagreeing with carbon taxes....in a concerted effort to destroy the planet....
<sound of duct tape ripping off roll>
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Motherbelt
June 29, 2009 - 08:14 ET by ApodicticIt'll be more like hate crime tribunals - coming to a state near you.
Motherbelt
June 29, 2009 - 08:15 ET by ApodicticIt'll be more like hate crime tribunals - coming to a state near you.
Handful of Dems?
June 29, 2009 - 08:27 ET by jondelwicheIt was in the 40's, and that does NOT fit in my hand.
This is an easy vote if the Dem simply uses its large advantage, but the trouble is the "Krugmans" argue for a position that is totally lacking in the modern scientific method:
there are NO control groups, study groups, p values, etc etc
It is modeling, where the premise is a 1 part per 10,000 increase in atmospheric CO2 will destroy the planet.......
And people are skeptical? Go figure!
Paul Krugman... what you
June 29, 2009 - 08:29 ET by Jack BauerPaul Krugman... what you see is what you get. Damn Ugly.
The New York Times's in house, brown suited Brown Shirt, and hate-write ranter, perfects the big lie.
His mentor Josef Goebbels would be proud.
"We’re facing a clear and
June 29, 2009 - 08:38 ET by GregE"We’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself."
http://www.americant...
Oh, my.......
June 29, 2009 - 09:21 ET by motherbeltI was NOT expecting that !! LOL!
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
The Long Con
June 29, 2009 - 10:01 ET by slickwillie2001If you've ever been unfortunate enough to deal with a con-man on the street, you might have found out that when the con starts to go bad, you are in danger because you might simply get mugged. So it is with the AGW con game. The theory of AGW is falling apart, and the liberals are going to get ever more desperate and shrill as their game fails. If we can delay action on this stinker of a bill in the Senate for a few months, the whole barrel of crap might die.
THBarb Krud-man has the
June 29, 2009 - 10:17 ET by THBarbTHBarb
Krud-man has the right to his opinion.
But in MY opinion, it's time that we CAP the terms for the Congress and TRADE them for some new ones.
Term Limits Now.
Retro-active term limits NOW
June 29, 2009 - 12:19 ET by dasherIf term limits are set to 12 years, all congress critters who have 12 or more years service, may not seek reelection. None of this 12 years from now stuff.
"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O'Rourke
dasher, has to be at least
June 29, 2009 - 17:25 ET by kangaroodasher, has to be at least half of that, or even less, they putze around thinking they will keep getting elected on a single issue which they have you believe will take ages, but there is is always someone most of the time will fight them, but they get payed off and the cycle goes on. IMO
Well, Mark - it already was terrorism..
June 29, 2009 - 10:23 ET by Gary HallLast week, speaking out for cutting waste and fraud in governement programs and speaking out against rasing taxes - especially regressive taxes on working people, was called an act of terroism, called in by terrorists, by CA's Speaker of the State Assembly, Democrat Karen Bass.
Why should it be a surprise (tongue n' cheek) that we all be guilty of treason for speaking out with the support of thousands of scientists the world over who are engaging in science and economists who are engaging in economics against radical ideologues like Waxman and his ilk.
(:~> gary
I could take the
June 29, 2009 - 10:27 ET by AnotherBrianI could take the "Anti-Carbon" crowd a bit more seriously if they supported reasonable alternatives.
But, if you approach them about nuclear power (which most of the rest of the world uses), they freak out and claim it will also "destroy the planet."
Despite the fact that nuclear facilities in the US have been safe and Europeans use them all the time.
Krugman has it exactly backwards. Crap & Tax...
June 29, 2009 - 10:37 ET by R D Helm...is a million times more dangerous to our "way of life" than climate change is. As for civilization itself (the rest of the world), America being turned into a 3rd world economy by Obama and his hideous policies is going to be an indescribable tragedy.
If there is any treason present here, it is on the part of Krugman and his fellow-traveling, freedom-hating socialists, who blindly support, and publicly promote, laws that will ultimately strangle or nation's economy, not to mention our very freedoms and liberties that so many of our ancestors fought and, in many cases, died for.
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A long-departed great uncle of mine used to tell me that there would come a day in America when people will be hunting current and former politicians with dogs and guns, and that it will probably happen well within my lifetime.
Something tells me that, if he were around today, it wouldn't just be politicians on the list.
-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
Hunting...
June 29, 2009 - 11:25 ET by KJ_sez"...there would come a day in America when people will be hunting current
and former politicians with dogs and guns, and that it will probably
happen well within my lifetime."
My dogs are ready, straining at the slip...
Government sucks, but AT&T is worse. Really.
Give Paul Krugman some
June 29, 2009 - 10:52 ET by fitzfongGive Paul Krugman some credit. I can't think of too many people as eager as he to parade their own limitless ignorance in public on an almost daily basis.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Treason of Reason
June 29, 2009 - 11:04 ET by mattmYou can't commit treason against the planet. And even if you could, opposition to Kneecap and Raid doesn't qualify because that bill has NOTHING to do with the environment.
Krugman is a lying ignoramus.
jessieH I
June 29, 2009 - 11:20 ET by jessieHjessieH I have not been shown ANY data that proves the "climate change". As for Krugman, to call republicans treasonous is not right. I call anyone who passes a bill on "climate change", without reading it or allowing time for anyone else to read it, is treasonous. Just like the "stimulous bill", the ones who pushed it down our throats, the ones who passed it, without reading it, are TRAITORS. It doesn't matter which party they belong to.
READING IT...
June 29, 2009 - 11:35 ET by sam12663HELL, There isn't even a bill written yet!!! There was not even a bill available on the floor to view. You must call your congressman and senators and to let then know that you will not stand for this lack of attention to detail. They spend more time debating earmark issues and naming rights for federal building named for themselves than they do for a bill that will destroy jobs and raise taxes for everyone. The only good thing to come out of this bill is it just confirms, without a doubt, that President Obama is a LIAR! He campaigned on the claim that 95% of ALL Americans will not see their taxes go up ONE DIME! This 'climate bill' assures that every American will see a tax increase.
President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
Voting against a bill with
June 29, 2009 - 11:25 ET by winston smithVoting against a bill with a disguised socialist, anti-freedom agenda that makes unsubstantiated claims about the environment is not even comparable to the evil, treasonous acts and statements of people like Ried, Murtha and McDermott
HELL, There isn't even a
June 29, 2009 - 11:38 ET by sam12663HELL, There isn't even a bill written yet!!! There was not even a bill
available on the floor to view. You must call your congressman and
senators and to let then know that you will not stand for this lack of
attention to detail. They spend more time debating earmark issues and
naming rights for federal building named for themselves than they do
for a bill that will destroy jobs and raise taxes for everyone. The
only good thing to come out of this bill is it just confirms, without a
doubt, that President Obama is a LIAR! He campaigned on the claim that
95% of ALL Americans will not see their taxes go up ONE DIME! This
'climate bill' assures that every American will see a tax increase.
President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
Sammy,
June 29, 2009 - 15:03 ET by IamTinmanIf our (and I use that term loosely) congressmen and women pass a cap and trade bill without reading it are we getting taxation without representation? I think that we did something about that a few centuries ago! Maybe it's time to review some history.
Sen. Inhofe (R-OK), was on
June 29, 2009 - 11:39 ET by FranksamSen. Inhofe (R-OK), was on the news this AM discussing buried EPA e-mails re Global Warming. The wheels need to come off this bogus alarmist mindset before we all drown in a sea of debt. That is much more likely than the rise in water levels that we are constantly warned about. (Disclosure: I live in Colorado, so I think a fifty foot rise in sea level would make my property worth more. Let me know if you are a in a buying mood.)
I hope Waxman drowns, too.
Krugman is a political hack.
June 29, 2009 - 11:41 ET by ThalpyKrugman is a political hack. I know he won the Prize , but he is woefully ignorant about science. CO2 is not tied to AGW. Unless you belong to Kooks R Us, this fact should be obvious. Krugman is correct in one thing, however: "We're facing a clear and present danger to our way of life...," but the danger is from the people who adhere to the deluded notion of multiculturalism with its social justice nonsense. The danger is from the Left and what its done to our principal institutions over the past half century or so. There is also a clear and present danger from Islam with its attempted destruction of the West. Krugman's nonsense weakens us. He would be able to who it is that is guilty of treason every day of his life, if he shaved.
Koookman..
June 29, 2009 - 12:12 ET by wolfemanicTreason?
Whats next? Republicans are waterboarding Polar Bears?
GMTA, Thalpy. I wrote my
June 29, 2009 - 14:03 ET by MikeBGMTA, Thalpy. I wrote my comment before I finished reading all of the comments, so I hadn't read yours yet.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
MikeB, you have honor and I appreciate you!
June 29, 2009 - 16:32 ET by ThalpyMikeB, you have honor and I appreciate you and you comments. They continue to flood us with meaningless drivel while they have their way with us.
Paul the s(n)eer
June 29, 2009 - 12:59 ET by east tennessee johnKrugman is right. We are facing a threat to our lifestyle. The causes are spending/debt we can't repay or even generate enough growth to maintain our current lifestyle; budgetary explosions to the tune of $51 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities; the insidious tax of inflation from rising taxes needed to support Comrade O's brave new world and the enormous growth of the money supply.It isn't due to "excessive"CO2 that we'll have miniscule impact on after destroying what's left of our manufacturing base.
Looking into his eyes and
June 29, 2009 - 13:05 ET by Delsalistening to his words, I am convinced Mr Krugman, sometime in his past, had wild sex with the wrong kind, and is suffering from a sexually transmitted disease that typiclly attacks the BRAIN!
He'll be off the scene very soon judging from his ramblings!
"We’re facing a clear and
June 29, 2009 - 13:56 ET by MikeB"We’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself."
Indeed, we are, Paul. But it is not from the myth of Anthropogenic Global Warming, which even the IPCC doesn't really believe or advocate any more. The threat to our way of life is from your Black Jesus and his marxist/national-socialist cohorts. The threat to civilization itself is from those peaceful Islamists who wish to use the sword (metaphorically speaking: they have shown a propensity to use firearms, explosives and nerve gas as well as the actual sword) to convert the world to follow a 6th century pedophile.
Pseudo-economists such as Krugman refuse to recognize the 100% failure rate of marxism/socialism/collectiveism no matter when or where it has been tried. And the fiddy-twoers who voted for the poseur in the whitehouse refuse to recognize the threat to themselves from the Islamo-fascists.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Nuh-uh
June 29, 2009 - 13:57 ET by StarAZKrugman is not the boss of me!
Krugman is a disgrace to economics and reational thought. ACA
June 29, 2009 - 14:02 ET by acaiguanaMy gosh. 'treason'.
My gosh.
I thought the hate stuff was passe. Obviously GWB wasn't really the root cause of the Democrat Left's hate. It is American ideals themselves.
We are going to see a lot of stuff over the next four years spouted from the pus-filled minds of the likes of Krugman. Treason.
I knew the idea of 'denier' was bad when it was first sent up by the Left. I didn't really think they would morph it into treason.
How shallow and rude. Krugman should wash his mind out with some history and some books that don't have pictures in them.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
According to a formerly good friend,
June 29, 2009 - 14:51 ET by IamTinmanAccording to a formerly good friend, I'm already a traitor to the country for wanting, like Rush, for Obama to fail. Betraying the planet is just one more mortal sin.
I think however, that todays revelation of the buried EPA report should help people on the fence decide who is either lying or simply igorant of the real science, and who are reasonable skeptics.
Shout out to Senator Imhofe who has been fighting this battle for over a decade in Congress and a big hiss to my 2 senators Boxer and Feinstein for pandering to a constituency of nitwits.
The unscrupulous hide behind "earth-love"
June 29, 2009 - 14:53 ET by Overtly AmericanThis guy probably sends a mothers day card to planet earth!
More likely he makes a hole in the ground...
June 29, 2009 - 16:49 ET by Lord Erond...and jacks off in it all while screaming "Oh MOTHER!!!"
Krugman makes Gomer Pyle look like Mensa material
"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates
"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po
I'm beginning to wonder,
June 29, 2009 - 15:12 ET by Chris NormanI'm beginning to wonder, can a person, who is obviously well-educated, really be this much of a Kool-Aid drinking ideologue to the point of sounding insane, or is he deliberately being provocative a la Olbermann?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Paul Krugman is further
June 29, 2009 - 16:11 ET by fitzfongPaul Krugman is further evidence that "education" (quotes intentional) and intelligence are hardly mutually inclusive.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Another moron groveling at
June 29, 2009 - 15:15 ET by George S PattonAnother moron groveling at obama's anus hoping to be allowed to tast the fruit of the teleprompter messiah.
Drugged-man is a stupid A-hole
June 29, 2009 - 16:47 ET by Lord ErondYeah, Waxmann drops a 300 page amendment in the boxes at 3:09am and expects everyone to vote for it. At least the most beautiful thing we've seen out of this next 2 years is how democrat leadership and liberalism in general, is a failure on so many levels.
"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates
"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po
Krug is krazy. He should
June 29, 2009 - 17:51 ET by bigtimerKrug is krazy.
He should listen to words of wisdom.
For all the good it would do...in one ear...out the other.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart