Paul Krugman - "Addicted To Bush" On Republicans Opposing Obama By Celebrating Bush

[TomCADem]

Kudos to Paul Krugman for being one of the few commentators to call out the right wing for re-packaging Bush era policies as populist Tea Party ideas. These are just the same ideas and policies that lead to the Great Recession and the financial meltdown. So, the media engaged in a complete fabrication and promoted the Tea Party, which are just Republicans with funny hats, as a new, populist movement. Would Bush's policies be nearly as popular if they were identified as such?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/opinion/23krugman.html?hp

The truth, however, is that the only problem Republicans ever had with George W. Bush was his low approval rating. They always loved his policies and his governing style — and they want them back. In recent weeks, G.O.P. leaders have come out for a complete return to the Bush agenda, including tax breaks for the rich and financial deregulation. They’ve even resurrected the plan to cut future Social Security benefits.

But they have a problem: how can they embrace President Bush’s policies, given his record? After all, Mr. Bush’s two signature initiatives were tax cuts and the invasion of Iraq; both, in the eyes of the public, were abject failures. Tax cuts never yielded the promised prosperity, but along with other policies — especially the unfunded war in Iraq — they converted a budget surplus into a persistent deficit. Meanwhile, the W.M.D. we invaded Iraq to eliminate turned out not to exist, and by 2008 a majority of the public believed not just that the invasion was a mistake but that the Bush administration deliberately misled the nation into war. What’s a Republican to do?

You know the answer. There’s now a concerted effort under way to rehabilitate Mr. Bush’s image on at least three fronts: the economy, the deficit and the war.

On the economy: Last week Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, declared that “there’s no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue, because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy.” So now the word is that the Bush-era economy was characterized by “vibrancy.”

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Hey, I'm a freakin republicon icon! Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"What the republicon homelander tebaggarians luvs me for is my wholesome (smirk) Republicon Family Pharisee Values. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

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[LiberalEsto]

2. "vibrancy"

:rofl:

Oh yeah, the "vibrancy" of millions of unemployed Americans, people losing their homes to foreclosure, people having their pensions looted by CEOs, and a federal budget surplus transformed into a whopping deficit in just 8 "vibrant" years. They can keep their fucking "vibrancy," thank you very much.

[SpiralHawk]

3. The only republicon vibrancy comes

from the tingling in their heads after they have dosed on the overpaid Republipropaganda their Chickenhawk Media Shills have spewed.