Re: Krugman: Bush policies are disaster

From: Bulba! (bulba_at_bulba.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 03:59:23 +0100

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:04:52 GMT, "Count Cottontail"
<Count1MoreVoteForKerry@CottontailClub.net> wrote:

>> They had
>> to clench their teeth to support Bush. They suffer Bush only
>> bc he's a lesser evil economically speaking and because they
>> like his ideology on other issues.

>I think that they are fools to do so.

They're not. Kerry would be even worse. A flu is not as
bad as broken spine.

>Bush is the worst President this
>country has had since Rutherford B. Hayes, although I may be doing Hayes an
>injustice by comparing him to George Bush.

If his trick with forcing the Dems to "starve the leviathan" in the
future won't work, he will indeed have left very bad legacy. However,
for now I see his chances of creating success for conservative
policies _in the long run_ as 60 to 40.

That's certainly better than guaranteed political and economic
disaster under Kerry. Better solvable crisis than unsolvable,
long term marasm.

>> >Their ideology makes them ( quite literally ) blind to the future.
>>
>> Nonsense.

>I don't know about that. If one accepts a distinction between a 'verbal
>report' and actual perception, then maybe you have a point.

They're just smart enough to keep the poker face and say
nothing, and keeping suffering contained in the mind quietly.

>But according
>ot their verbal reports, they seem to have no awareness of the massive
>credit crunch that this country is facing in the next few years.

..and yet again you demonstrate how the left loves deceving
itself with its traditional, shallow superstitions it wants
confirmed instead of attempting to gain an insight into an
issue.

You're feeding your knee-jerk reflex really.

>> >The only question in the minds of most Republicans ( if they can be said
>to
>> >have 'minds' ) seems to be how they can blame the looming credit disaster
>on
>> >Clinton and the Democrats.
>>
>> That's the point I think - to leave that ticking bomb for them, so it
>> blows up in their faces.

>Thanks. You are True American Patriot ( of the Neo-conservative
>persuasion ).

Well, I'm not American. But yes, I wish America all the best and
the Democrats and the left all the worst.

>> It's gruesome, because a lot of innocent taxpayers and regular
>> people will be blown up, too, when it explodes. Still, it may
>> not be as bad as what would happen without that - ever
>> heard of boiling the frog slowly?

>I think it will erode rather than explode, like the stag-flation of the late
>1970s.

I may have overstretched the matter by this metaphor - the point
is, I think leaving the nasty job of cutting the expenditures to the
Dems is doing things in a way that is very un-traditional for a
conservative.

Usually, those are rightwingers that undertake hard and unpopular
reforms (see Thatcher, Reagan), and the leftists that blow
the money away on nonsense and futile causes.

Attempting to turn the table, if successful, may result in final
destruction of the left. I'm sure that the Dems will first of all feel
that it's fundamentally unfair, that things are not supposed to be
this way that they'll have to do the hard job that the rightwingers
traditionally do.

Blow the hell out of those dim-witted thieves, Mr Bush!
Even if that means blowing some of us up, too!

I have one humble request, though: that you make sure that
they ARE blown up - that we, your supporters, are not blown
up for nothing. That remains disturbing possibility. 

--
To everyone, according to his whims. From everyone,
according to his stupidity.

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