Krugman couldn't be happier about Bush's designs on Social Security.

[coloradodem2005]

Because he feels that Bush will lose big on this one. I hope that's true. I want this to be for Bush what healthcare reform was for Clinton, only far more detrimental to him and the Republican party.

[Ezlivin]

1. I'm wary about this

Bush has taken shit issues before and turned them into gold.

Regardless of how it looks now, all it will take is another terrorist attack to make all us forget about it. And since they organized and ran the last one, they know what to do.

[blm]

8. It depends on how far the media will go to make THIS shit look like gold.

It wasn't Bush who made his shit into gold, it was a corporate media too fearful to expose the truth.

Most of the public KNOWS how SS works, so it's harder for the media to keep Bush's lies propped up. If they could, though, they would.

[tsuki]

11. I am hitting everyone in my immediate area with a vote Nelson or lose

social security. If we return a Republican, we will give the Republican Party the "mandate" to destroy social security. I am getting a good response from the reddest of the red state I live in.

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[Ezlivin]

17. Spent part of my Masters degree studying the LDS Church

The people who go there are nice (perhaps to a fault), but their church is another story.

The SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) is very worried about the LDS Church because so many Baptists crossover.

Another fact that surprises many Americans is just how many LDS people there are in the Secret Service, CIA and FBI. Since LDS men and women generally have squeaky clean backgrounds, it's easy for them to get the necessary security clearances.

[caligirl]

26. try www.exmormon.org

My hubby left that church/ bad on the psyche. Exmormon.org tells about the history and practices the true believers don't want to talk about.

[newyawker99]

21. Hi freedom man!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[rodeodance]

2. wish i had his opptimism--my is shot after the election!!!

[rinsd]

3. Weren't the Dem hurt more by the Congressional banking scandal?

[bloom]

4. He is more optimistic than I am.

I guess it will come down to "how good a job of PR/advertising can they do".

I'm afraid they could sell water to a fish.

[tom_paine]

5. Emperors like tiberius don't lose even IF he is denied legislatively

like evey time else, he will simply turn around and do it by Imperial Fiat.

Watch.

[Nite Owl]

6. I sure hope so.

He also said that this would hurt him more in the red states. They need it more and everyone has a mom. They didn't vote for dismantaling Social Security they voted for someone that was strong on terror and against gay marriage. This could take the mask off. At this point it's merely a ray of hope, we've thought too many times that this or that would surely make people understand what they were really about and it ended up being nothing more than a ripple. They are so good at what they are doing, evil and good at it.

[jean]

12. they voted for him cuz he's strong on terror...I agree but wonder if we do

suffer some type of 'terrorist' attack, if red staters will drop off his band wagon.

[Nite Owl]

18. He does kind of have himself

in a box there. If there is no attack then maybe the fear level will drop and if there is one he has failed to protect.

[mopinko]

7. coupled with the moral bankruptcy bill

either they have stepped on the third rail, and people will start to put down the koolaid, or we are doomed.
having been to a town meeting, i believe we will soon be treated to the fragrant perfume of burning elephant.
i keep thinking about that picture of dan rostenkowsy, stuck in his car, surrounded by seniors, hanging on his hood.

[coloradodem2005]

9. God, I hope you're right.

[shoelace414]

10. problem is the election isn't for two years

and by then they'll be taking about how they raised the minimum wage. (I have a feeling they will, and claim it was their idea, next year)

[tsuki]

13. The election started the day after the coronation. At least, for me.

[jean]

16. isn't the next one next year, '06? That's roughly 20 months...

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. I'd be more hopeful if I really believed that the healthcare reform

plan was responsible for the '94 elections. Unfortunately, I remember '94 as the first flexing of the religious right, tied to the Contract On America.

We need a contract of our own.

[madfloridian]

19. Krugman was very cute and funny on the Daily Show last night.

I have never heard him be so outspoken and just plain cute.

[XemaSab]

22. Do you have a link to a transcript or video?

I heart Krugman almost as much as Howard, but I am a hermit and I don't have a TV.

[Skittles]

24. he IS quite adorable

I had only ever seen a tiny picture of him before.

[XemaSab]

29. Yeah

he looks a lot younger in living color than he does in his NYT picture.

[Cha]

28. I would have liked to have seen that,

mad! There wouldn't be any way to see it on the net, would there?

[rniel]

20. wheather people like it or not

The only thing that really matters is will the vote go through congress or not.

They have already done a lot of things that public didn't approve of. I don't see why what the people think will stop them from going through with it.

[XemaSab]

23. Fifteen trillion is a LOT of dough

n/t

[NightOwwl]

25. Said Dems should use "Your mom will have to buy cat food"

as a talking point. He's right.

There's something about him that is so sweet and innocent. I want to give him a great big hug. :hug:

[XemaSab]

27. Link

to Daily Show appearance:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.jhtml%3Freposid=/multimedia/tds/stewart/jon%5F10005%5Fpundits.html

On edit: Kenn Kaufman (birding guru) says braised liver Little Friskies are the best cat food around.

[Cha]

30. Thank you, but I just keep getting a

black screen and it says.."connecting to media" but it never does. Wonder what I'm doing wrong?:-(

[XemaSab]

31. That's too bad

Maybe try a different computer?

It's a windows media file.