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Give Rove and award --- in his prison cell (Krugman - BARF Alert)
IHT ^ | 07/16/05 | Paul Krugman

Posted on 07/15/2005 9:34:06 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher

John Gibson of Fox News says that Karl Rove should be given a medal. I agree: Rove should receive a medal from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering discoveries about modern U.S. politics. The medal can, if necessary, be delivered to his prison cell.

What Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: The faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern.

I first realized that we were living in Karl Rove's America during the 2000 election campaign, when George W. Bush began saying things about Social Security privatization and tax cuts that were simply false. At first, I thought the Bush campaign was making a big mistake - that these blatant falsehoods would be condemned by prominent Republican politicians and Republican economists, especially those who had spent years building reputations as advocates of fiscal responsibility. In fact, with hardly any exceptions they lined up to praise Bush's proposals.

But the real demonstration that Rove understands American politics better than any pundit came after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Every time I read a lament for the post-9/11 era of national unity, I wonder what people are talking about. On the issues I was watching, the Republicans' exploitation of the atrocity began while ground zero was still smoldering.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: krugman
I read this today and was seething by paragraph two. Decided to share it with my FReeper Buddies.

There isn't one fact in this entire article.

This is an excerpt. If you can stomach it - read the entire thing.

1 posted on 07/15/2005 9:34:07 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher
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To: Dashing Dasher

Oh, someone's going to prison, but it's not going to be Karl Rove.


2 posted on 07/15/2005 9:37:40 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: Suzy Quzy

I heard on the radio today that Plame had a desk job for six years - she wasn't even remotely "covert".

This is just garbage!

This article annoyed me so much - I ... just had to share.


3 posted on 07/15/2005 9:41:14 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (As an outsider, what do you think of the human race?)
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To: Dashing Dasher
Paul Krugman is dishonest. He is a professional fraud, both as a columnist for the NY Times and as what passes for a professor of economics at Princeton, these days. He is promoting the cause of Joseph Wilson, who is a demonstrated lawyer. And he is trying to bring down Karl Rove -- not because Rove has done anything wrong -- but because Rove has communicated with the American people in a way that Krugman can barely imagine.

In short, Krugman is the grown-up (barely) version of a kid who doesn't like the way that a game is going, so he wants to take his bat and ball and go home. But he's just discovered that he doesn't own the bat and ball, and he's got bupkes.

And that makes him madder still. Did I miss anything?

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The Fry Cook Rule for the Supreme Court"

4 posted on 07/15/2005 9:48:22 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Will President Bush appoint a Justice who obeys the Constitution? I give 85-15 odds on yes.)
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Are these people all insane?  Do they think that if they keep pretending that he was just convicted of a crime, in court, that we'd eventually start believing it??

They made this story up out of the flimsiest of eveidence, were found to be wrong, but just keep on ignoring that and continue calling for impeachments, resignations, firings or prison.  They've completely come unglued!

Karl Rove is kryptonite for the Democrats.

5 posted on 07/15/2005 9:55:05 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Suzy Quzy

Oh, someone's going to prison, but it's not going to be Karl Rove
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Some one is in prison and her name is not Karl Rove.


6 posted on 07/15/2005 10:54:08 PM PDT by JLS
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To: softwarecreator

The Dems should just go ahead and nominate Wiley Coyote in 2008.


7 posted on 07/15/2005 11:20:29 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (whats wrong with a draft?)
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To: Dashing Dasher; All
-The lies of Paul Krugman-( BLAIR, BRAGG, DOWD ... KRUGMAN? ) --

Proof that Rove was Right

8 posted on 07/16/2005 2:40:15 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into the Dawn of Information...)
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