Tea Pluribus Unum. The brew of individual liberty. What’s good for One is good for the Many.
That’s my simple message to Paul Krugman, who, along with Frank Rich, serves as the New York Times’ chief peddler of Tea-ophobia these days. If you watch ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday or read his columns, you are familiar with the Keynesian ravings of Krugman, who calls for additional government spending on a near-daily basis. If this were ancient Rome, he’d be named Stimulus Maximus and we’d mock him with scathing epodes at the monthly Bacchus festival.
But this is not ancient Rome, and 21st-century Americans are a much kinder, nobler people, motivated by charity and gratitude. Therefore, I say, Tea Party supporters, it’s time to give back to Paul Krugman. It’s time to thank the Nobel laureate for statements such as these from his latest NYT op-ed (“Divided We Fail”):
Barring a huge upset, Republicans will take control of at least one house of Congress next week. How worried should we be by that prospect? …Future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness… So if the elections go as expected next week, here’s my advice: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Thank him? What on earth for?
For single-handedly doing more to help guarantee a Republican election tsunami on Tuesday than just about anyone. Stim-Max’s frequent attacks on the grass-roots Tea Party juggernaut have only strengthened the movement’s resolve. The Old Gray Lady’s Old Gray Beard is a one-man GOP Get-Out-The-Vote machine.
It’s clear from his “Good luck with that” line that moonstruck Krugman actually fell for Obama’s latest diaphanously disingenuous promise (in a National Journal interview) to have an “appropriate sense of humility,” after the expected Nov. 2nd repudiation of his agenda and to “spend more time building consensus.”
The President who excluded Republicans from any sort of dialogue on, or involvement in, the health reform debate will now show a “sense of humility?” LOL.
The President whose stance on just about everything–the Arizona law, securing the Mexican border, closing Gitmo, enacting cap-and-trade, increasing stimulus, bailing out delinquent homeowners and car manufacturers, abusing the Cambridge police department, calling Republicans “our enemies” at a recent campaign rally–runs counter to the majority of the country’s views–that President is going to “spend more time building consensus?” ROTFLMAO.
There are many words one could use to describe Krugman’s gullibility. One of the kinder ones is patsy. Lovesick as any bobbysoxer who ever swooned over a young Frank Sinatra, Krugman “reasons” on:
We might add that should any Republicans in Congress find themselves considering the possibility of acting in a statesmanlike, bipartisan manner, they’ll surely reconsider after looking over their shoulder at the Tea Party-types, who will jump on them if they show any signs of being reasonable.
To Krugman, “being reasonable” means accepting in toto Obama’s Euro-style social-Democrat agenda. Krugman will never understand the raison d’etre of the tea party, nor the inevitability of its ascendancy. He’s breathed the noxious, all-knowing air of the Old Gray Lady’s Linotype room far too long. He’ll never understand that–unlike the Coffee Party, which stands for nothing other than to sort of mildly, um, well, kind of protest the Tea Party, but in a nice way, don’t ya know?–the Tea Party is the true voice of sanity in our republic these days. The sanity of Restraint. The sanity of No. The sanity of Stop.
Forget Jon Stewart’s “Restoring Sanity” Oct. 30th assembly. The Daily Show host is merely suffering from a bad case of “rally envy” following Glenn Beck’s highly-successful “Restoring Honor” August event. Stewart’s faux-demonstration, on the other hand, is really just a thinly-veiled liberal GOTV play to shore up ebbing Democratic support.
While Stewart’s political leanings have never been in doubt, nonetheless it’s disappointing and credibility-eroding to see him move from disinterested satirist to full-feathered Obama-style community organizer under the gossamer guise of comedian. To a limited degree, Stewart’s rally-ette will probably succeed, but it will never have the longevity of the Tea Party, which against all prognostications of its early demise, has grown from dismissed, derided minnow to powerful, feared Leviathan. Satire, much as we prize it, has an expiration date. Substance endures.
Krugman’s political tin-ears (both of them)–and his smug elitist vilification of the millions of everyday Americans who support or belong to the Tea Party–only help the movement grow.
So it’s time to thank Paul Krugman for the only successful stimulus he’s ever engineered–stimulating millions of GOP, independent, and disillusioned Democratic voters into action.
Sharron Angle just sent Joy Behar flowers for calling her a nasty word. I think it’s time to send Paul Krugman a bag of good strong tea. I’m sending mine on November 3rd. Care to join me?