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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on March 26, 2010, 05:32:04 PM
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Going to Extreme
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 25, 2010
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. But a few days later, it doesn’t seem quite as entertaining — and not just because of the wave of vandalism and threats aimed at Democratic lawmakers. For if you care about America’s future, you can’t be happy as extremists take full control of one of our two great political parties.
To be sure, it was enjoyable watching Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican of California, warn that by passing health reform, Democrats “will finally lay the cornerstone of their socialist utopia on the backs of the American people.†Gosh, that sounds uncomfortable. And it’s been a hoot watching Mitt Romney squirm as he tries to distance himself from a plan that, as he knows full well, is nearly identical to the reform he himself pushed through as governor of Massachusetts. His best shot was declaring that enacting reform was an “unconscionable abuse of power,†a “historic usurpation of the legislative process†— presumably because the legislative process isn’t supposed to include things like “votes†in which the majority prevails.
A side observation: one Republican talking point has been that Democrats had no right to pass a bill facing overwhelming public disapproval. As it happens, the Constitution says nothing about opinion polls trumping the right and duty of elected officials to make decisions based on what they perceive as the merits. But in any case, the message from the polls is much more ambiguous than opponents of reform claim: While many Americans disapprove of Obamacare, a significant number do so because they feel that it doesn’t go far enough. And a Gallup poll taken after health reform’s enactment showed the public, by a modest but significant margin, seeming pleased that it passed.
New York Times-Going to Extreme (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/opinion/26krugman.html)
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More leftist from Krugman and the New York Times. All the comments are mindless leftist sheeple. It is the left who has inflicted the backlash. If they get wiped out, it is their own doing.
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They are becoming way too overconfident. This is good. They are laughing at us after we have been kicked and pushed into the mud. Good. Dont take things too personal. Let them enjoy it. Let them continue.
This is going to get interesting. You never know what exactly the man thats getting up out of the mud is going to do as he gets up. Time will tell.
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it’s been a hoot watching Mitt Romney squirm as he tries to distance himself from a plan that, as he knows full well, is nearly identical to the reform he himself pushed through as governor of Massachusetts.
Funny how the libs never wanted to draw that comparison BEFORE the vote.