Lil’ Ezra Klein, that fresh-faced Progressive Wunderkind, has solved it. The whole mess. The whole “Euromess” as he calls it.
It’s not the debt. Not really.
It’s slow growth.
Which has nothing to do with the crushing debt, which is still moral and good.
Guess we can all stop worrying.
Humorless people can be fun – if you stop caring about them being humorless and just mercilessly f*ck with them.
Late last night, punchy, from having just read through a very dense academic paper on the beauty of confiscatory taxation recommended by HuffPo, I popped over the NYT to see what the Sunday opinion pages would look like upon waking.
Paul Krugman, always dependable, posted yet another veddy, veddy smart piece trying to make an academic excuse for what we all know is true: Until this President, who keeps promising to do a tax colonoscopy on anyone capable of hiring is removed from Office, this economy is stalled. Everyone is just treading water trying to survive until 2013 and everyone who doesn’t have their head firmly planted up their a** knows this.
It does not require a single graduate class to know this.
It simply requires common friggin’ sense.
Which is why this comment, dripping with sarcasm got posted.
Like I said, humorless people are fun. Posting comments like this is like a kitty playing with catnip. Predictable outcome, every time. It’s just vague enough to look like I believe the drivel being peddled, and just sarcastic enough to fly under their deeply crippled humor radar. If you want to read the piece that inspired the comment below, yet another gravity-defying Krugman piece, the hallmark of which is economic theory utterly untethered to human impulses, it’s here.
1. The President is not King. He may speak to a Joint Session of Congress at THEIR pleasure, not his.
2. The White House knows this and knew exactly what they were doing when the booked Bam-Bam the same day and at the exact hour the loooong scheduled GOP debate was being held. If the WH did NOT know this they should be fired for incompetence.
3. This speech is nothing more than A-roll for a 2012 campaign commercial. That’s (partly) why Speaker Boehner rebuffed Bam-Bam with the BRILLIANTLY crafted letter suggesting he speak on opening night of football season instead. For that ALONE, I will always have a warm place in my heart for the gentleman from Ohio.
4. GUARANTEED there will be NOTHING NEW in it. Say it with me: “NOTHING.” Heck, let’s spell it: N-O-T-H-I-N-G. You can’t COUNT how NOTHING new-ish this speech will be. There are no negative numbers low enough. NONE.
5. I’m offended as an American that the current occupant of the WH cheapens his office by calling a Joint Session for this happy horseh*t.
Obama may find his oft repeated campaign theme-whine that what has to be ‘fixed’ in ‘Washington’ is the ‘gridlock’ comes back to bite him 180 degrees from its intended target. Yes, Mr. President. You are quite right. And may I be the first to congratulate you for – in your own ass-backwards way – recognizing the problem, which is the first step to authentic recovery (as opposed to a Plouffe/Axelrod P.R. ‘Recovery’).
YOU are the gridlock. YOU are utterly incapable of leading men. Or herding cats, as it were. What did you think this was? An editorial meeting at the Law Review? With you holding the red pen? Shoo-ing lessers away?
FORTY-THREE MEN BEFORE YOU somehow managed to herd those cats… AND YOU WHINE. You used to teach the constitution, for crying out loud. You should know, one would reasonably suppose, that 535 of the people’s representatives are wont to be – thank GOD – an unruly bunch.
Edison, echoing a sentiment of Jefferson’s, said he found 2,000 ways NOT to make the lightbulb before he got to the ONE way to successfully make it. Jefferson’s quote was, loosely, that the American people may get it wrong, over and over, and over again – ON THE WAY TO GETTING IT RIGHT – but they WILL get it RIGHT in the end. He believed in US. He believed (rightly) in the (now proven durable) system of government he helped craft – in the ugly, messy process of separated powers. Do you?
This is BIG BOY politics, Barry. It’s supposed to be hard. This is the job you asked for. What did you think? That congress was going to lay down and think of England? (Queen Victoria’s advice to a bride on her wedding night.)
The people’s representatives are there to check your stupid, provably bankrupting green winning picks. You say you aren’t there to pick winners but you keep choosing to force us to your stupid green jobs, which have bankrupted entire countries – but somehow the law of 2+2=4 stops at our shores? Really?
Your continued insistence that the gridlock is the problem, whether you realize it or not, is a continued ADMISSION that YOU can’t LEAD. So keep it up, Barry. WE are smart enough to know that the system was there long before you were, AND OTHER MEN WERE ABLE TO HERD THOSE CATS.
The ‘gridlock’ is YOU. Once we remove YOU and replace YOU with constitutional conservatives THERE WON’T BE ANYMORE GRIDLOCK, YOU MORON.
It’s not OUR wedding night, big guy…
…and we’re not layin’ down for a screwin’.