What's Up, Doc?

The lovely Paul Krugman has been putting up good numbers--see this bunt single, with graphs, about the unemployment situation, and this dribbler up the third base line, where the "smart economists" are apparently poised to repeat the error of the mid-Depression.

But Southern Beale gets the inside-the-park homer:

So basically we’re all screwed. The right wing narrative rules in our “liberal media” — the same “liberal media” following Sarah Palin around and Tweeting the family’s breakfast selections. Serious discussion never happens, we just get the same right-wing talking points repeated over and over again. How is it even possible that we had tax cuts in 2001, again in 2003, the economy still tanked, and then we renew those tax cuts and we’re basically in the same place. Yet we still keep hearing how tax cuts stimulate the economy and create jobs. Has no one noticed that in 10 years it hasn’t worked yet?

I recommend to the "professional pundits" (we pause here for the gales of laughter) that they heed the advice of Satchel Paige.

Steve Gilliard died 4 years (and 2 days) ago.  Time to link to "I'm a fighting liberal" again for that blow against national amnesia:

What has conservatism given America? A stable social order? A peaceful homelife? Respect for law and order? No. Hell, no. It hasn't given us anything we didn't have and it wants to take away our freedoms.

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Conservatism plays on fear and thrives on lies and dishonesty. I grew up with honest, decent conservatives and those people have been replaced by the party of greed.