It’s Witch-Hunt Season (Krugman)

[dtotire]

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 29, 2010




The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administration to unrelenting harassment — at one point taking 140 hours of sworn testimony over accusations that the White House had misused its Christmas card list.

Now it’s happening again — except that this time it’s even worse. Let’s turn the floor over to Rush Limbaugh: “Imam Hussein Obama,” he recently declared, is “probably the best anti-American president we’ve ever had.”

To get a sense of how much it matters when people like Mr. Limbaugh talk like this, bear in mind that he’s an utterly mainstream figure within the Republican Party; bear in mind, too, that unless something changes the political dynamics, Republicans will soon control at least one house of Congress. This is going to be very, very ugly.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30krugman.html?ref=opinion

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Playing it safe, is, in this case, not very safe.

>>>>>But my guess is that the president will continue to play it safe, all the way into catastrophe.>>>>.

In fact it's not safe at all. Some of us have been cringing over the fact that the current DEM administration seems condemned to repeat the mistakes of the 60's and 70's. ( "Afghanistanization", "winding-down" the various occupations, yada, yada yada.). Since they didn't live thru that era.... politically speaking.... how can we expect them to know better ?

But aren't they old enough to remember the *nineties*, ferchrissakes? What do they THINK is going to happen?

[Ninga]

2. Our dear President needs to reonsider the noble approach to his policies and think

again about the first thing the GOP will do if they reclaim the WH. It will be bye-bye to everything Obama has accommplished.

I disagree with Obama. I think elections DO matter, and I wish he thought so too, when it comes to the November elections.

[Skittles]

3. he's too busy trying to be part of their club