tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post8300536127539153847..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Liberal Hack Economists Still MIAJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-59350732439486004552010-07-03T07:03:44.669-05:002010-07-03T07:03:44.669-05:00Deleted my last comment becuz I'm on half a cu...Deleted my last comment becuz I'm on half a cup of coffee and needed to restate something. Sorry.<br /><br />From day one every liberal "hack" economist from Atrios to Krugman to everyone else has said that the recovery act was not big enough, and was too watered down by failed Republican ideas like tax cuts. Even after watering down the legislation the Republicans still didn't vote for it so what was the point? The White House needed to go BIG and did not, the Democrats in Congress needed to go BIG and did not, and now those folksi are worried about the deficit when all the liberal hacks are saying no, the deficit is not the most critical problem, jobs are. Every liberal hack I know has said the policy has been bungled and we are likely going to face a double-dip recession. There will be no economy for years.<br /><br />There is no cheerleading on the left like you have with the right. When the Obama Administration has been wrong, as it has on many occasions, liberal hacks have been very vocal about it.<br /><br />So I'm voting for "there are few Democrats out there in the nation eager to buy the product of anyone basically cheerleading for the White House." The product the White House sold us was crafted under some silly jones for bipartisanship. Bipartisanship was deemed more important than crafting an effective policy. Yet that bipartisanship never happened.<br /><br />We were also told that this Recovery Act was just a "first step" and the liberal hacks all said, are you nuts? If this fails, and all indications are that it will (or at least not been as successful as the situation warranted), you won't GET a second chance. Seriously, who thinks Congress will vote for another stimulus spending package? With an election around the corner? Now, despite all evidence to the contrary, we're told deficits are the big issue.<br /><br />The other thing that infuriates me, and I imagine the liberal hacks, is this whole "we had no idea things were so bad" notion. We keep hearing that from the Obama Administration, it's become their version of "nobody could have anticipated" which we heard from the Bush years. I'm sorry but <b>I</b> knew things were that bad. Liberal bloggers I follow knew. Krugman knew. I live in Tennessee where we've had over 10% unemployment and you bet your dang bippy we knew. Everyone knows someone who's out of work and given up looking. <br /><br />For crying out loud if <b>I</b> knew how could <b>they</b> not know? I'm no freaking genius but I'm getting pretty dang sick of being smarter than the people in Washington and our glorious pundits in the media. It's like Saddam's WMD all over again. "We didn't know he didn't have WMD" .. are you freaking kidding me? If <i>I</i> knew how could <i>you</i> not know?Litzz11@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843479112124843471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-8492752564291164592010-07-03T06:58:55.383-05:002010-07-03T06:58:55.383-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Litzz11@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843479112124843471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-49163458263986525132010-07-02T15:04:22.102-05:002010-07-02T15:04:22.102-05:00I think the liberal hack position is that the econ...I think the liberal hack position is that the economy is always doing worse than it should be doing and the government needs to do more to encourage it. The conservative hack position is that the economy is always as doing as well as is possible and the government needs to stay out. It's up to the spin doctors to convert this ideological noise into pro-party messages.<br /><br />If you meant Democrat hacks instead of liberal hacks then I agree they don't exist. When the GOP is winning, there's much more agreement about economics than there is in the DNC when it's winning. That consensus falls apart a bit when the GOP is out of power, but it never exists for Democrats so left-wing economic analysis will always try to pull in one direction or another instead of saying that everything is going great and stay the course.Vox Octopihttp://voxoctopi.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-13571887545905572472010-07-02T14:30:21.592-05:002010-07-02T14:30:21.592-05:00It's all the Republican fault /sarcIt's all the Republican fault /sarcJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18116121761413049785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-75418233865408352532010-07-02T13:48:37.829-05:002010-07-02T13:48:37.829-05:00It's an issue of integrity (mostly).It's an issue of integrity (mostly).Andrew Calkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02443311272898885243noreply@blogger.com