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Krugman lectures Noonan on GOP hostage taking: ‘Nothing like this ever happened before’
Last edited Sun Oct 13, 2013, 04:18 PM - Edit history (1)
Noonan makes me want to 
Krugman lectures Noonan on GOP hostage taking: ‘Nothing like this ever happened before’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Sunday shot down Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan’s argument that the Republican Party’s tactic of shutting down the government and refusing to raise the debt ceiling was “business as usual.”
During panel discussion on ABC’s This Week, former White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe noted that he was “deeply concerned” that tea party Republicans in the House did not even have the capability to open the government or raise the debt ceiling before the Oct. 17 deadline.
“Republicans made a mistake, they picked a fight, they had no strategy, they had no endgame, they had no plan,” Noonan agreed. “That having been said, I think the president has made counter mistakes, not only in the famous stories of the things that were forcibly shut down in the shutdown and all that stuff, but his — the sense he has communicated that, ‘Hey, I’m not having a conversation, we’re not having negotiations.’ Presidents have to negotiate on debt limits. They have to own it.”
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Watch this video from ABC’s This Week, broadcast Oct. 13, 2013.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Sunday shot down Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan’s argument that the Republican Party’s tactic of shutting down the government and refusing to raise the debt ceiling was “business as usual.”
During panel discussion on ABC’s This Week, former White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe noted that he was “deeply concerned” that tea party Republicans in the House did not even have the capability to open the government or raise the debt ceiling before the Oct. 17 deadline.
“Republicans made a mistake, they picked a fight, they had no strategy, they had no endgame, they had no plan,” Noonan agreed. “That having been said, I think the president has made counter mistakes, not only in the famous stories of the things that were forcibly shut down in the shutdown and all that stuff, but his — the sense he has communicated that, ‘Hey, I’m not having a conversation, we’re not having negotiations.’ Presidents have to negotiate on debt limits. They have to own it.”
~snip~
Watch this video from ABC’s This Week, broadcast Oct. 13, 2013.
Video at Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/13/krugman-lectures-noonan-on-gop-hostage-taking-nothing-like-this-ever-happened-before/
I wish George would've let Krugman respond again after Noonan continued to spew her rhetoric.
The look on Krugman's face at the end of her diatribe, however, is priceless.
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It's all so fooking depressng.
Playing with our country.. and I'm not seeing a damn thing we can do about it. Hoping for a legal miracle here.. because, we're not going to give terrorists what they want.