Amongst lefty moonbat theorists who are currently prominent in media, Paul Krugman has to be the moonbattiest. His woefully misguided economic pronouncements are systematically eviscerated (at least until he restricted the size of comments in his New York Times column, so anyone with more than a “you tell ’em Paul!” is shut out of constructing a reasoned argument) by almost anyone who has the slightest inkling that Keynesian stimulus is, once again, a colossal failure. His latest column in the Times is sure to prompt delighted howls from anyone who hasn’t drunk the “Obama, descended from Olympus, is Lightworker and Genius” koolaid.
He laments that the right is unleashing a witch-hunt on the Obama administration that’s “even worse” than the one perpetrated against philanderer Bill Clinton and his Whitewater co-conspirator Hillary. Of course, Rush Limbaugh gets mentioned by the second paragraph as one of the ringleaders. I laughed out loud when I read the abject horror with which he describes the malevolent Limbaugh:
To get a sense of how much it matters when people like Mr. Limbaugh talk like this, bear in mind that he’s an utterly mainstream figure within the Republican Party; bear in mind, too, that unless something changes the political dynamics, Republicans will soon control at least one house of Congress. This is going to be very, very ugly.
Did you get that? Rush Limbaugh, much to Mr. Krugman’s dismay, is “utterly mainstream”. And, because about 20 million people regularly listen to the likes of Rush, the Republicans gaining control of one house of Congress is going to very, very ugly. So, Republican control of even one house of Congress, while the Enlightened One is trying to work his special social-agenda magic, is ugly. The odds are not extremely high, but the possibility exists that Republicans could gain control of both houses of Congress – this, I’m sure, would produce apoplexy for P Krug.
Another laugher comes just two paragraphs later:
Anyone who remembered the 1990s could have predicted something like the current political craziness. What we learned from the Clinton years is that a significant number of Americans just don’t consider government by liberals — even very moderate liberals (my emphasis)— legitimate. Mr. Obama’s election would have enraged those people even if he were white. Of course, the fact that he isn’t, and has an alien-sounding name, adds to the rage.
What that sounded like is an attempt to paint Barack H. Obama as a “very moderate liberal.” Yikes. I’d hate to see how things would have turned out if he had been a far-left liberal. And, just for kicks, he flips out the tired and tattered race-card. The dissatisfaction that is being manifested through the activities of millions of Tea-Party types can’t be anything but racism. Yawn.
Adding to his list of witch-hunt perpetrators, Krugman tags Glenn Beck:
Again, though, there’s an extra level of craziness this time around: Mr. Limbaugh is the same as he always was, but now seems tame compared with Glenn Beck.
And where, in all of this, are the responsible Republicans, leaders who will stand up and say that some partisans are going too far? Nowhere to be found.
Glenn Beck, regularly preaching the twin heresies of being decent to one another and observing the Constitution as it was written, is bringing “craziness” into the picture. He’s inciting all those bitter clingers out there to resist the efforts of “He Who is Enlightened”, and preventing O from accomplishing his altogether moderate and reasonable agenda. “If you’ll just comply, you’ll begin to see just how great everything will be.” I love the reference to “partisans…going too far” – where was Krugman when George W. Bush was regularly being tarred as the perpetrator of atrocities akin to Hitler and Stalin?
Krugman offers some advice to the Enlightened One, presumably as a shield for the Konservative Kryptonite that’s being pointed his way:
If I were President Obama, I’d be doing all I could to head off this prospect, offering some major new initiatives on the economic front in particular, if only to shake up the political dynamic.
He can’t resist saying that Obama should serve up some more stimulus or something that produces less output than the tax dollars that are confiscated to finance it. Yeah, that Keynesian multiplier magic needs some more fuel to really get that Summer of Recovery going. What? Oh, summer’s over? Well there’s still plenty of time to get some more shovel-ready projects going. Dollars for Dumps would be a good candidate.
There’s some other good stuff in there, too, but I’ll let you enjoy them yourself.
Here’s the link to the article in the New York Times