"I know from detailed plans and there is nothing there."

[cthulu2016]

From "This Week" Sunday morning. (Read the whole thing linked below. Very amusing.)

STEPHANOPOULOS: what would Governor Romney do right now -- not in the future -- right now, to get the economy moving again?

(ROMNEY SURROGATE) FEHRNSTROM: Well, it's not just, as Paul says, tax policy. That's part of it, of course, but it's also spending policy, it's regulatory policy. It's confronting China on their unfair trade practices. It's -- it's a whole -- it's labor policy, George.

The governor has laid out very detailed plans. People can go to mittromney.com and learn about them for themselves. But I think what we really have here...

KRUGMAN: ... ...I know from detailed plans and there is nothing there.

WILL: ...Where does the governor stand, Governor Romney, on the Ryan plan? Does he endorse it?

FEHRNSTROM: Oh, he's for -- he's for -- he's for the Ryan plan. He believes it goes in the right direction. The governor has also put forward a plan to reduce spending by $500 billion by the year 2016. In fact, he's put details on the table about how exactly he would achieve that. So to say he doesn't have a plan to -- a plan to restrain government spending is just not true.

KRUGMAN: Can I say, the Ryan plan -- and I guess this is what counts as a personal attack -- but it isn't. It's not an attack on the person; it's an attack on the plan. The plan's a fraud. The plan is a big bunch of tax cuts, some specified spending cuts, basically for poor people, and then a huge magic asterisk which is supposed to turn into a deficit reduction plan, but, in fact, if you look what's actually in it, it's a deficit-increasing plan. And so to say that -- just tell the truth that there is really no plan there, neither from Ryan, nor from Governor Romney, is just the truth. That's not -- if that's -- if that's being harsh and partisan, gosh, then I guess the truth is anti-bipartisanship.

http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/week-paul-krugman-destroys-romney-surro

[wilsonbooks]

1. How novel and unusual to have a Liberal on the show to

refute the nonsense of the right. It must have been a scheduling mistake.

[tanyev]

6. I'm sure it won't happen again.

[valerief]

20. A corporate hiccup. nt

[Flatpicker]

2. He has the

Same platform that the GOP has had for decades.

Tax Cuts for the top.


From the Mitt website:

Make permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates
Maintain current tax rates on interest, dividends, and capital gains
Eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains
Eliminate the Death Tax
Repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

Cut the corporate rate to 25 percent
Strengthen and make permanent the R&D tax credit
Switch to a territorial tax system
Repeal the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

Same ol' Same ol'

[A Simple Game]

10. This one is new to me.

Switch to a territorial tax system

What is a territorial tax system?

[HooptieWagon]

11. Yikes! It sounds like different tax rates depending on where you live.

Wow, that sounds like potential for abuse.

[A Simple Game]

14. That is what it sounds like. n/t

[bluedigger]

12. High taxes for blue states, low for red states.

[A Simple Game]

15. A scary thought but very likely.

The fact is most blue states subsidize most red states already.

Most blue states pay in more than they get back and most red states pay in less than the receive.

[bluedigger]

19. Imagine that Romnified.

[kentuck]

3. k

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[Tennessee Gal]

4. Beautiful! Go Krugman!

[deutsey]

5. k&r

[RVN VET]

7. Vox Clamantis

"Vox clamantis in deserto mediarum."

Forgive the Latin, I think Mr. Krugman is right on, but his wisdom is largely ignored by people who should be hanging on his every word. All major media spokespersons are sell-outs to the wealthy. All Republicans, ditto. And too many Democrats have either sold out, themselves, or are foolishly laying back in the insane hope that this will somehow all blow over. "This" being the dismantling of the Republic and, with it, the rights and dignity of each individual citizen.

There may yet be a glimmer of hope that the tide can be reversed. That's why I'm watching Wisconsin. That's why I'll watch the House and Senate elections in November. I'm watching -- but not holding my breath in anticipation of Democratic victories. Too many people like the Republican message, even though it's mostly without substance -- and has been proven, time and again, to be without substance. But people like it because it's simple and easy to follow: "The rich will hire you if you cut their taxes."

And a President who has had to struggle to overcome an enormous economic debacle caused by his predecessor, is hamstrung by the Republicans who have admitted, time and again, that their number one -- in many ways their only -- goal is to defeat him. The Republicans have assiduously worked against him and the National welfare. The Republicans have not only fought the President's efforts to solve the economic problems foisted on him by his predecessor, they have blamed him for the mess they have caused and nurtured. They have blamed him, in the main, successfully.

Tomorrow in Wisconsin we will see the first sign of the direction the people, the American voters, want the US to take. They can vote for corrupt rule by moneyed oligarchs, or for a strong -- and strengthened -- citizenry. I'm almost afraid to look.

[The Wizard]

8. Great post and

welcome aboard. Wisconsin could be called a test case for the corrupt Citizens United decision. The most corrupt Supreme (really mediocre) Court in history has compromised our democracy. Some justices belong in the Gray Bar Hotel and License Plate Factory.

[Auntie Bush]

16. +1000 and welcome to DU

You are off to a good start! Thanks for explaining my feelings and thougts better than I can.

[spanone]

9. romney= empty suit

[coalition_unwilling]

13. Classic! Although Krugman may 'blow' if it keeps up (as your

other DU thread mirthfully suggested

[DCKit]

17. How 'bout that. I spent so much time yelling "You lying POS" at the TeeVee...

I missed most of the interview.

Thanks for the transcript.

[coalition_unwilling]

18. My wife refuses to allow me to watch the Sunday news programs any more because

she got tired of all my shouting Ah, the sounds of silence.