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pampango

(24,692 posts) Thu Jan 29, 2015, 10:32 AM Jan 2015

Krugman: Ted Cruz has now joined the “anti-Fed crazy train”

How does one report on politics when a significant wing of the political spectrum is, not to put too fine a point on it, stark raving mad? I appreciate that it’s hard to do without attracting accusations of bias; on the other hand, there’s a temptation to soft-pedal the crazy, to make it seem as if politicians were less out there than they really are.

Thus, Matt O’Brien notes that Ted Cruz has now joined the “anti-Fed crazy train”, which is exactly right. The report, however — which does, to be fair, convey the full sense of how crazy Rick Perry was — uses a euphemism for what the crazies have been saying:

Republicans have questioned the Fed’s moves to stimulate the economy since the financial crisis, arguing that the expansion of its balance sheet will create economic instability.

Well, actually they have spent the past six years warning about “currency debasement and inflation“. The chart shows how that prediction has turned out. And that in turn makes the fact that the anti-Fed ranks are swelling, not shrinking, a much more remarkable political story than the whitewashed version would indicate.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/whitewashing-the-crazy-fed-edition/?_r=0

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Krugman: Ted Cruz has now joined the “anti-Fed crazy train” (Original Post) pampango Jan 2015 OP

The stratagy appears to be to double-down and squeal even louder by the crazies. CTyankee Jan 2015 #1

Folks and the media need reminding that the Dominionist Church is where the really crazy Cruz lives. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #2

Agreed. jwirr Jan 2015 #3

End times dominionists are batshit crazy. Initech Jan 2015 #5

Crazy but that's how it goes Initech Jan 2015 #4

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

1. The stratagy appears to be to double-down and squeal even louder by the crazies.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 10:45 AM

Jan 2015

And people who ought to know better, such as Richard Haass, keep throwing their hand in with the crazies. I suspect Haass is getting a big payoff for his whoring to the RW. He makes me sick.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

2. Folks and the media need reminding that the Dominionist Church is where the really crazy Cruz lives.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 11:20 AM

Jan 2015

You want to join crazy, join those freaky End Timer Dominionists, like Cruz did from birth.
They actually believe, actually believe, that shit and WANT it to happen, like yesterday.

They are covering their real crazy with a tsunami of pretend crazy and actual insane folks as the pawns.

It is long overdue that these asshats reveal why they are so religious and how it will effect their public policy decisions....like setting off a thousand nukes to usher in the End of Days? Good, or bad thing?

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

3. Agreed.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 12:52 PM

Jan 2015

Initech

(100,099 posts)

5. End times dominionists are batshit crazy.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 01:20 PM

Jan 2015

They're definitely ones that should never be given a micro ounce of power, let alone have their finger on the trigger.

Initech

(100,099 posts)

4. Crazy but that's how it goes

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 01:15 PM

Jan 2015

Millions of people
Living as fools
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate

Mental wounds not healing
Driving me insane
.
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

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