Krugman: Rebels Without a Clue

[highplainsdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/krugman-rebels-without-a-clue.html

This may be the way the world ends — not with a bang but with a temper tantrum.

O.K., a temporary government shutdown — which became almost inevitable after Sunday’s House vote to provide government funding only on unacceptable conditions — wouldn’t be the end of the world. But a U.S. government default, which will happen unless Congress raises the debt ceiling soon, might cause financial catastrophe. Unfortunately, many Republicans either don’t understand this or don’t care.

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No sane political system would run this kind of risk. But we don’t have a sane political system; we have a system in which a substantial number of Republicans believe that they can force President Obama to cancel health reform by threatening a government shutdown, a debt default, or both, and in which Republican leaders who know better are afraid to level with the party’s delusional wing. For they are delusional, about both the economics and the politics.

On the economics: Republican radicals generally reject the scientific consensus on climate change; many of them reject the theory of evolution, too. So why expect them to believe expert warnings about the dangers of default? Sure enough, they don’t: the G.O.P. caucus contains a significant number of “default deniers,” who simply dismiss warnings about the dangers of failing to honor our debts.

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[KittyWampus]

1. hoping like heck the pendulum is finally moving

[jsr]

2. Rebels? No. They're psychopaths, sadists, arsonists, vandals.

[world wide wally]

4. Terrorists of a sort?... Extortionists?.... Saboteurs?

[jsr]

5. Yep.

[ErikJ]

3. Half of Republicans believe Jesus rode dinosaurs. There's no hope. nt.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Their "brain" works like Frankenstein....

Government,.....BAD. Obama,.....BAD. Stop Government,.....GOOD. Stop Obama,....GOOD.

Check their shoes for velcro.