“Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles, Manchurian candidates for I don’t know who, if their real job is to bring down America because they really are doing the best they can.” — May 18, 2012, on MSNBC’s “Martin Bashir,” speaking about House Speaker John Boehner’s and other Republican leaders’ economic policies
Via the Professor Himself, somebody at Politico did a pretty good job of finding appropriate images to illustrate “Krugman’s 13 Best GOP Zingers“…
andy
It just goes on and on, and even right wingers know the punchlines:
TheMightyTrowel
Just my eyes or does Boehner look like the Grinch in that pic?
NotMax
Bruce Bartlett, whose allegiances over the years I disagree with, but whose political and policy bona fides are rock solid, takes today’s Republicans to the woodshed, disintegrating their fool’s paradise with the historical facts of consequences of recent economic policy and fiscal skullduggery.
Villago Delenda Est
@TheMightyTrowel:
No, I think there is most assuredly some familial resemblance there.
Of course, the Grinch reformed.
I don’t think Boner ever will. He’s irredeemable scum.
NotMax
Didn’t intentionally duplicate the link you gave, andy. Your post must have been made while I was typing and proofreading. ;)
Egg Berry
Since this is an open thread, here is an actual quote from the Sandusky defense’s opening statement yesterday:
via Tbogg
Hill Dweller
I’m glad at least some people are publicly calling Republicans on their craziness, because virtually all the worthless media is too ignorant, corrupt and/or cowardly to do it.
Romney, especially, is getting a free pass for lying every damn day.
geg6
Thanks for running the Hayes book contest, Anne Laurie! I’m ridiculously excited about it. I’ll email you my address.
As for Krugthulu, he is endlessly entertaining. Won’t click on Politico, but I’m sure the article is a lot of fun to read.
EconWatcher
@Villago Delenda Est:
I just can’t bring the hate on for Boehner the way I can for, say, Cantor. Boehner is an old school guy who clawed his way up from humble beginnings, became somewhat corrupt in the process, and would really like his House to settle down so he can quietly do his business, which involves cutting deals, greasing cronies, and sending an occasional crumb to the rubes to keep the game going. Not admirable, mind you, but not loathesome. I’ll bet you he hates the tea partiers just as much as you do, although for different reasons.
Now Cantor, he strikes me as a pure, ruthless, mirthless, smarmy sack of expletive, who is capable of literally anything.
Raven
Mornin Joe and Nicole Wallace would like for you to join up so we can intervene in Syria.
“Hillary would not sit back and allow these people to be slaughtered like president Obama is.”
JPL
@EconWatcher: Boehner just wants to play golf with the President and then have a few drinks. He had no idea that he had to deal with those pesky tea party folks.
amk
@Raven:
Thank fsm she isn’t in WH.
JPL
@Raven: Thanks for the daily updates on Morning Joe. I assume Wallace and Scarborough don’t have security clearance so they are just spouting what ifs to make the President look bad. Maybe Romney will hire Wallace to work for his campaign. She was so successful last time.
Egg Berry
Wait, what in Nicole Wallace, former McCain/Palin advisor, doing on Morning Ho? Balance?
JPL
@Raven: It doesn’t take esp to know what McCain would do. I’m surprised they didn’t mention him since he is gung ho to put Americans in harms way.
danielx
@EconWatcher:
Yup. Boehner wants to get on with doing business, and he’s well aware that this includes compromising, doing deals and occasionally doing things you’d rather not do. Contrariwise, his freshman class is not interested in compromising in the interest of getting anything done because they’re not interested in doing anything except burning the motherfucker down.
Cantor, as with Paul Ryan, are a couple of slimy creatures who want to catch the wave, and even Cantor has occasional issues with the Republican freshmen. On the other hand…
Ryan/Walker 2016!
Omnes Omnibus
@danielx:
Can’t have a Pres/Veep combo from the same state. I apologize on behalf of Wisconsin.
Hill Dweller
@Raven: Nicole Wallace doesn’t give a shit about the Syrian people. They are the means to a political end for her.
Furthermore, Wallace nor Scarborough would have the slightest clue if asked how we would proceed in Syria.
bemused
@Hill Dweller:
I assume Nicole Wallace is on Morning Joe primarily because her book is now out in paperback.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sure you can. Bush/Cheney 2000, for example. At the last minute The Dark Lord magically changed his residence to Wyoming.
jayackroyd
@geg6:
Just quotes. First six:
“Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles, Manchurian candidates for I don’t know who, if their real job is to bring down America because they really are doing the best they can.” — May 18, 2012, on MSNBC’s “Martin Bashir,” speaking about House Speaker John Boehner’s and other Republican leaders’ economic policies.
“I have a structural hypothesis here. You have a Republican ideology, which Mitt Romney obviously doesn’t believe in. He just oozes insincerity, that’s just so obvious. But all of the others are fools and clowns. And there is a question here, my hypothesis is that maybe this is an ideology that only fools and clowns can actually believe in, and that’s the Republican problem.” — Nov. 20, 2011, on ABC’s “This Week,” speaking about the 2012 Republican presidential contenders.
“All he does is make scary noises about the deficit, with mood music, with organ music in the background about how ominous it is, and then propose a plan that would in fact increase the deficit.” — May 3, 2012, speaking with TPM about Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
“Just how stupid does Mitt Romney think we are? If you’ve been following his campaign from the beginning, that’s a question you have probably asked many times.” — April 22, 2012, in a column titled “The Amnesia Candidate”
“What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror.” — Sept. 11, 2011, in a blog post titled “The Years of Shame”
“If you don’t know multiple people who are suffering, then you must be living in a very rarefied environment. You must be maybe a member of the Romney clan, or something.” — June 9, 2012, speaking at the Netroots Nation conference
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: Neither Ryan nor Walker has another address in his back pocket. I suppose one could give up his elected position and move somewhere.
gene108
@Villago Delenda Est:
Cheney was born and raised in Wyoming and was a multiple term Congressmen from Wyoming. Moving his official residence back to his home state isn’t a big deal to me, since he wasn’t a government official in Texas; his job just happened to be located there.
I really wish the modern Republican voters would realize the harm they are doing by voting Republicans into office, but for whatever reason they are convinced cutting taxes, cutting social safety nets, etc. are a good thing and just can’t be reasoned with.
I don’t know where I read it, but someone pointed out supply-side economics was constructed to address economic problems specific to the late 1970’s – high inflation, low corporate profits, limited growth in the business sector, etc. – that no longer exist.
Like so much of the modern Republican party, their economic platform is a solution in search of a problem that it could solve.
BrianM
Unless I miscounted, exactly one of the thirteen quotes was more than a year old (and that one was from 2011.) Politico sure put a lot of effort into this piece.
Amir Khalid
@Egg Berry:
Goodness. It wouldn’t make sense to say that unless your client was pleading guilty.
kuvasz
Its prety damn clear that paid agents of an enemy power could not have fucked up America more than the Republican politicians in Washington.
Bloody Peasant
@Omnes Omnibus:
It would be funny to watch them lose Wisconsin in the general election – couldn’t happen to a nicer pair.
Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor
@EconWatcher:
I have special hate in my heart for anyone who climbs the ladder, then does everything they can to pull it up after themselves so no one else can follow. (Dick Cheney fits this description as well, he grew up middle-class).
You can almost forgive a GWB or a Romney for their ignorance about the Little People, since they grew up in bubbles. Folks like Boehner? Not so much.
patrick II
@gene108:
Supply side economics was never an economic policy, it was created as a sham to allow Republicans to run on lower taxes while asserting they would still generate enough income to keep the social safety net intact. It isn’t a policy, it is a shiny bead for the rubes.
Google the “two santa clause theory” for details.
LGRooney
Hopefully I won’t upset too many sensibilities, seeing as how I work in the biggest co. within the MIC, but I just hung his anti-science one in a frame outside my door for all to see.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@patrick II: Or “voodoo economics”, Bush the Semi-Lucid’s name for Raygunomics coined during Bush’s run against Raygun during the GOP primary. Bush the Semi-Lucid’s problem was that he never really drank the supply-side poison, and he got in trouble because of the read-my-lips thing. He did what is anathema to the ‘Thugs these days—he let good sense get in the way of campaign rhetoric.
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
I feel kind of sorry for Poppy Bush sometimes. I think he would have wanted to be a reasonable, socially liberal conservative, but he had to sell his soul to the Christian Right to get elected. Then he had to watch his lesser son scorn his advice and screw up the whole country.
Then I think about Iran-Contra and I feel a lot less sorry for him.
TenguPhule
Fixed.