gives Obama a bit more credit than he deserves here. Our economy is very much the right-wing dream at present, but it's largely because our political establishment as a whole-- not just the Republicans-- have been pushing this "elites first" garbage for years. Yes, the Republicans have obstructed everything they could, but the number of right-wing positions that have been wholesale adopted by the Democratic establishment is itself enough to make us a trickle-down nation.

I know Krugman's probably trying to play it safe in an election season, but you are 100% correct.

"I know Krugman's probably trying to play it safe in an election season, but you are 100% correct."

Krugman knows the deal:

I wonder if President Obama is approaching this campaign in a "lawyerly" way ... That is building a case, by slowly and thoroughly, introducing one element at a time, because the public is simple and has a very short memory. Things need to be spelled out step by step, word by word.

If so ... He will continue hitting romney on economic stuff, e.g., Bain Capital and romney's record in Mass until late june/mid-July, then he will introduce the "do nothing congress" element throughout July and August.

Then, he will enter his "summation" phase, where he says, "I did this, romney did Bain, while the congress did nothing ...; I did that while the congress did nothing and it produced this, romney brought his 'Bain experience' to Mass that produced 47th in job creation.

By doing this, not only will the Obama Campaigh will benefit; but it hits members of congress as well.

For me, the tell will be if we start seeing democratic congress members introducing jobs bills (in August/September), in the face of the gop's threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage, again.

One could not ask for a more clear line of demarcation between President Obama AND Democrats vs the gop, that even the most dull among the electorate can follow.

Here's hoping!

This constant, willful, desperate pretending that it comes only from the other side is the single biggest obstacle we face in fixing the problem.

Until Democrats are capable of saying the words "corporate money" and "collusion" and "wrong" without choking on our blue team jerseys, we will never have a unified opposition to this garbage.

There are too many Democrats supporting the Republican economy. How can we recover when there are so many (D)'s that should read (R) or even (T) {Treason} in the Democratic Party.

At the first Democrat that stupidly decided to claim "I'm socially moderate and fiscally conservative."

The fact of the matter was that we needed to make a big left turn to get our ass back on the road and instead we just sort of steadied the wheel abit. I don't entirely blame President Obama. He choose a bad team that regularly and routinely misinformed him and worked hard to undercut every reform idea out there. Suskind's book lays out where much of the blame should lie.

There are people that are more interested in defending the pro-bank policies of the administration and some of the cabinet folk than the president himself. There are also people that want to villify the president with every breath they take. Both of these groups will try to tell you that the president is immune to these cabinet and advisor positions and that all the decisions are precisely what he wanted to do. I don't buy it.

I check out who I vote for. As I said, there are too many (R)'s hiding behind a (D). More people need to check out the candidates closer.
The last candidate I could really get behind was Byron Dorgan (D) ND, but he retired and I moved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Dorgan

If the only other options in the races are (R) then hell yes vote a straight Democratic ticket.

I would extend that to the idiotic "Constitution party," the moronic "libertarian party," or whatever other right wing party that might be on the ticket.

If you absoultely must protest vote at least do it for a party that has a platform that is A: recognizable. B: intelligable. and C: something you might actually believe would be good policy. D: Is actually at least as progressive as the Democrats or a hell of a lot more progressive.

Otherwise I see no reason to not vote Democrat.

Edit I thought you were judging people poorly that voted a straight Democratic ticket. Nevermind.

R&

"Republican economy" speaks volumes.

K&R

MORE SUPPLY SIDE. even supply siders have faced up to it's NOT WORKING.