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Mary Matalin To Paul Krugman: "Are You An Economist Or A Polemicist?" (video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | December 9, 2012 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 12/09/2012 9:25:11 AM PST by i88schwartz

KRUGMAN: That kills charitable deductions. It hits the middle class hard. If you do it -- if you do it right -- we've done this, right...

MATALIN: Are you an economist or a polemicist?

(CROSSTALK)

KRUGMAN: There's only -- there's only $450 billion that you can get by doing that.

MATALIN: Do you want to talk about economy or do you want to talk about polemics?

KRUGMAN: No, this is not true.

MATALIN: We have two different ways of going forward. We will not have Medicare, we will not have Social Security. You have senior Democrat Dick Durbin saying Social Security is not costing us a penny. You have those congressmen, those Democrats saying that they're -- that Medicare, Medicare and Social Security are not the driver of this debt. Even the president disagrees with this.

What these guys should do -- Coburn is right -- this is meaningless. They should either give him 98 percent, let him eat that tax, or they should do what President Clinton proposed, which is -- like just extend it for three months and let the new Congress -- we have a new Congress. How is it fair that the outgoing Congress that lost is making this...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marymatalin; matalin; paulkrugman; sleepingwiththeenemy; turncoat

1 posted on 12/09/2012 9:25:18 AM PST by i88schwartz
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Mary Matalin To Paul Krugman: "Are You An Economist Or A Polemicist?" (video)


2 posted on 12/09/2012 9:58:28 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Mary being married to snakehead sure has learned to get under the skin of. Libtards like Krugman ...

Krugman probably wets himself when he has tomatch wits Mary....

He is simply not used to being challenger


3 posted on 12/09/2012 10:13:33 AM PST by Popman
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To: i88schwartz

Mrs.James Carville.Who would trust her after her secret romance in 1992. If you found out an adviser on your Presidential campaign was banging a guy on the other side without telling you then marrying him after the election why would you ever put her in a position of trust ever again?


4 posted on 12/09/2012 10:23:18 AM PST by bonehead4freedom
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To: Popman

How can this marriage work: A supposed capitalist married to an islamocommunist?

I wouldn’t trust either of them.


5 posted on 12/09/2012 10:24:01 AM PST by onedoug
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To: i88schwartz

She’s been an attractive woman, but I’m afraid Ms. Matalin’s doctors pulled her skin too tight in their latest work.


6 posted on 12/09/2012 10:30:42 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: i88schwartz

Welp, I’m pretty sure he does something with poles....


7 posted on 12/09/2012 5:34:26 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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