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The Cult That Is Destroying America (Krugman :"Obama is a conservative")
NY times Opinion ^ | July 26, 2011 | Paul Krugman

Posted on 07/26/2011 8:32:13 PM PDT by sickoflibs

Watching our system deal with the debt ceiling crisis — a wholly self-inflicted crisis, which may nonetheless have disastrous consequences — it’s increasingly obvious that what we’re looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system.

And no, I don’t mean the fanaticism of the right. Well, OK, that too. But my feeling about those people is that they are what they are; you might as well denounce wolves for being carnivores. Crazy is what they do and what they are.

No, the cult that I see as reflecting a true moral failure is the cult of balance, of centrism.

Think about what’s happening right now. We have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and Democrats in Congress are bending over backward to be accommodating — offering plans that are all spending cuts and no taxes, plans that are far to the right of public opinion.

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The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president. Once again, health reform — his only major change to government — was modeled on Republican plans, indeed plans coming from the Heritage Foundation. And everything else — including the wrongheaded emphasis on austerity in the face of high unemployment — is according to the conservative playbook.

(Excerpt) Read more at krugman.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: business; debt; dementalillness; economy; krugman; leftuniverse
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Obama is "a moderate conservative president" .

Obama-care was a conservative bill created by the Heritage Foundation. LOL

1 posted on 07/26/2011 8:32:18 PM PDT by sickoflibs
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Yo Paul, I think you are diseased.


2 posted on 07/26/2011 8:35:33 PM PDT by umgud
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...while the president and Democrats in Congress are bending over backward to be accommodating...

Krugman is delusional. Where does he get his news? PMSNBC or the Algore Channel?

3 posted on 07/26/2011 8:36:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Barry! Compromise this!!!)
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To: LMAO; DeaconBenjamin; April Lexington; murphE; RipSawyer; Tunehead54; preacher; 1234; coloradan; ...
The Peter Schiff/Austrian Economics ping. (Washington Bankrupting our Nation by Spending your past, present and future money!)

Krugman is anti-Austrian which is why I get a kick out of him.

4 posted on 07/26/2011 8:37:05 PM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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Paul is a very sick man. He needs medical attention right away.


5 posted on 07/26/2011 8:37:28 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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Tertiary syphilis is bad JuJu.

Apparently.


6 posted on 07/26/2011 8:38:12 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik ("The trouble with internet quotations is you don't know if they are true"-Abraham Lincoln.)
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To: sickoflibs

Krugman needs a rubber room. Reality is entirely absent in Krugman’s world.


7 posted on 07/26/2011 8:38:34 PM PDT by DB
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To: Parley Baer

If conservatives are wolfes, liberals are vampires.


8 posted on 07/26/2011 8:39:05 PM PDT by JimmyMc
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This lunatic probably thinks Hugo Chavez and Castro are right wingers too.


9 posted on 07/26/2011 8:39:14 PM PDT by Bobalu (He who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate)
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>>The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president<<

And he carries the torch of historical moderate conservatives such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and. of course, that conservative humanitarian Joey Stalin.

barry’s desire about what to do about his “Jewish Problem” also follows that famous conservative Hitler, who barry admires from afar and whose work barry wants to complete.


10 posted on 07/26/2011 8:40:30 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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Paul Krugman proves once again, that Keynesisan (Communism-lite) economics are fraudulent and ficticious...Obama is a “moderate”?

People need to understand that the Left does move the goalposts in language, culture, morality and ultimately, in removing unwanted parts of history they want to erase.

Krugman is an intellectual, yes, but his entire world is incorrect and a fantasyland of faculty lounge and dinner party madness that comes from a trust fund, movie script or tenured professorship.

He is ruling class, like Obama, with no f*ing clue.


11 posted on 07/26/2011 8:40:30 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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RE :"Obama is a “moderate”?"

He said a "moderate conservative".

:)

12 posted on 07/26/2011 8:43:18 PM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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To paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, Krugman is full-blown, batpoop crazy.


13 posted on 07/26/2011 8:43:35 PM PDT by hometoroost (Per Oceander: The only guarantees in life are death, taxes, and stupidity.)
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evil.


14 posted on 07/26/2011 8:43:35 PM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
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Krugman gets invited to all the important dinners and parties because he says what the liberals want to hear. It doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to support the failing liberal philosophy.


15 posted on 07/26/2011 8:43:39 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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The Left mis-quotes a 1990’s study done by the HF. Rush read it earlier this year, it’s another flat ass lie by the Communists.


16 posted on 07/26/2011 8:44:11 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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Krugman's lies are almost as laughable as Ubama.
17 posted on 07/26/2011 8:44:28 PM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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To: sickoflibs

I wonder how far up the ass one’s head has to be in order to see obama as a conservative.

Krugman is offal.


18 posted on 07/26/2011 8:44:40 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: DB


19 posted on 07/26/2011 8:46:50 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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Well, one think Boehner has done...he's gotten the left spitting fire about the deal; they're even talking about a primary opponent for the Won now.

A lovely thing to watch.

20 posted on 07/26/2011 8:47:27 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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