Republicans Have No Idea What They're Doing
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly
Excerpt: "New York Times' Jackie Calmes has a terrific piece in which she comes very close - as close as is possible in our contemporary media construct - to simply drawing the public a picture the country urgently needs to see, but usually doesn't. In a measured tone, the NYT article effectively makes clear that when it comes to economic policy, Republicans plainly have no idea what they're talking about."
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/7027-republicans-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
From the article:
Washington should be focusing on stimulating the economy in the near term to induce people to spend money and create jobs, while settling on a long-term plan for spending cuts and tax increases to take effect only after the economy recovers.
Republicans respond to all of this by … not caring at all. Some may want a weaker economy on purpose, some are too blinded by ideology to consider objective information, some aren’t terribly bright, and some, as David Brooks recently noted, simply “do not accept the legitimacy of scholars and intellectual authorities.”
But the bottom line remains the same: nearly everyone who understands economic policy at any level is convinced Republicans — in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail — are spewing gibberish.
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