“What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A proud centrist. For that is what the senators who ended up calling the tune on the stimulus bill just accomplished.”
Krugman
NY Times today http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1
Good response to Krugman’s blog today:
After a heated debate of whether we should jump the chasm or not, the centrists came in and achieved this wonderful compromise: let’s jump half the chasm.
— Israel, Atlanta
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