So the debate is over, and Krugman won. Did anybody tell the President?

[markpkessinger]

. . . I mean, surely he'll want to withdraw his proposed budget, since its deficit reduction emphasis has been found to have been based on a faulty premise. I mean, won't he??

[Recursion]

1. Why withdraw a budget that is DOA in the House?

Not even sure what "withdraw" would mean in this context.

[Brimley]

7. Yeah

Pretty much a moot point.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Fun-ny.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. What do you think "the debate is over" means?

To me it has connotations of "people have stopped debating", and indeed of "everyone now agrees" - which is clearly not the case.

"A strong piece of evidence as to which side is *right* has emerged" is not the same thing, and would only be if people never held positions that were wrong.

[appal_jack]

8. Alas, you are correct, Mr. Rankin.

Alas, you are correct, Mr. Rankin. The powers that be seem unwilling to let little things like facts get in the way of their ideology.

Still, I sincerely hope that the President reconsiders what to put "on the table."

-app

[djean111]

4. Bwahahahaha!

First, I am given to understand that the president's budget is totally meaningless, and will never happen - except I am to cheer for the "good stuff" - which I can only assume is never meant to happen either - sort of like getting warm fuzzies when Miss North Dakota says she wants Whirled Peas. Miss North Dakota is as powerless as the president, really.

Second - it doesn't matter if Krugman gives a State of the Incorrect Lying Austerity Spreadsheet on all TV channels - ABC, PBS, HBO, the channel where people catch giant catfish with their bare hands - the real objective is for the rich to pay less taxes and for the government to provide less services and oversight. Washington doesn't need no steenkin' spreadsheet.

The Kissinger and Thatcher way of running things still rules.

[mtasselin]

5. WHY

Why bother, he won't listen anyway. He surrounded himself with the crooks from wall street and the gangsters, and that is all that matters to him.

[Newest Reality]

6. Whatever the

MIC decides and approves is the policy.

Everything else is just a prop on the stage and the actors play their assigned roles and its kinda' like reality TV, only more realistic.

We get to wade through the river of obscuration. We get to wonder, argue, question and debate the shovel's full of well-crafted public relations that are designed to manage millions of people without too much in the way of force.

Meanwhile, our cognitive dissonance sits dazed in the corner, glaring at us and drooling like a house pet with distemper. Oops, it fell over again. Gotta' go prop it up.

[jeff47]

9. Yes, the MIC is thrilled about Pentagon budget cuts.