On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Louis Proyect quoted Paul Krugman:
I see the following scenario: a weak stimulus plan, perhaps even
weaker than what we’re talking about now, is crafted to win those
extra GOP votes. The plan limits the rise in unemployment, but
things are still pretty bad, with the rate peaking at something like
9 percent and coming down only slowly. And then Mitch McConnell says
“See, government spending doesn’t work.”
Let’s hope I’ve got this wrong.
Yeah, but he's probably got it right.
I don't get the political strategy of compromising even before you
start a fight. The Republicans *lost*, and decisively. Yet Obama
courts them from the first. George W squeaks into office and declares
he's got political capital to spend and does. The Dems make no sense
in the most narrow partisan sense.
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