Krugman squashes GOP stimulus talking points; asks of "completely crazy" GOP alternative package: "[H]ow much bipartisan outreach can you have when 36 out of 41 Republican Senators take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh?"

Again, if the GOP is so against spending to help the US they can do two things

1) Don't take any money for their districts. Put your election where your mouth is -- but I am betting the situation is not going to approve on its own.

2) Tell me where they were during the Bush administration, 12 billion just vanished in Iraq and they where all business as usual. I have no problem with someone be tight-fisted even if they are strangling the country's economy to prove a point. But to be so because you are the captain of the team anymore is childish.

The most egregious lie is said by those who say that this is a spending bill, like that's a bad thing, or an unworkable solution.

 

What this economy needs is a government spending program. Krugman says that it needs to be even bigger than it is now.

This is a great segment.  Joe Scarborough may be a GOP shill most of the time, but he let's Krugman talk.  By the time the rest of Joe's group have theri say and ask their slanted questions, Krugman has calmly and efficiently dismantled their entire premise and shown, with facts, how Obama's stimulus plan must be passed immediately, the several billion is "pork" notwithstanding.  The Dems won the election and the GOP needs to suck it up and let them have their programs.

 

The adults are in charge now.  The Democratic Party needs to focus on repairing 8 years of Republican failures while the GOP should just focus on flag pins, Oval Office dress codes, placating Drugbaugh, Obama's middle name, and keeping Joe-the-tax-evading-plumber in the spotlight.  Bi-partisanship with the radical right-wing will never work as long as they remain the tiny tent party that is too afraid to stand up to a fat, bloated, anti-American "entertainer" that wants America to fail.

 

 

A spending bill IS a stimulus bill. That's how you get the stimulus. the government goes out and SPENDS money to STIMULATE the economy.The right wing is just being ridiculous. I have a friend whose a conservative. He's always railing about "earmarks". I try to explain to him that its not "earmarks" themselves that are bad. Its what the earmarks are for. He read that some Democratic Senator wanted to "earmark" some money for a program, and my friend went ballistic, beacause it was an "earmark". Once he found out what the moeny was for he was OK with it. I'll I could do was shake my head.

Amen Brother ..finally somebody on a show doing a real counterpoint with some facts ..Thank You Mister Krugman.

People actually believe tax cuts create jobs despite no evidence of that what so ever..even when the recent history under Bush is pointed put they say it changed when Democrats took over Congress in 2006 ..which was really only the House.Of course Bush found his veto pen at the bottom of the drawer under the rubber stamp so nothing changed in 2007 and Bush kept saying the Economy was stong until there was no choice(near the end of 2008).

What is left other than spending since taxcuts haven't worked in better economic times.?