{"id":183651,"date":"2013-01-01T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/01\/krugman-is-right\/"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:27:00","slug":"krugman-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/01\/krugman-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/31\/instant-backstabbing\/\">goal is to force painful decisions, and make the Democrats pay the political price for them<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But it turns out that they didn\u2019t even wait for any actual budget deal. Here\u2019s Marco Rubio yesterday (via Ezra Klein):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Hg2Vf.jpg\" width=\"470\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The first part is, of course, simply a lie: numerous reports tell us that McConnell did in fact make precisely that demand. And let\u2019s remember this when Rubio makes his run for the White House: we already know that he\u2019s an unprincipled liar. But anyway, you see how it will go \u2014 and why the whole notion of settling matters fiscal with a Grand Bargain was always crazy. You can\u2019t make big deals with a totally untrustworthy negotiating partner.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HjcWP.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>It does not make sense to negotiate with terrorists, but that meant nothing to Democrats, w<a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/01\/01\/congress-approves-deal-to-avoid-fiscal-cliff\/\">ho went 10:1 for the bill, while the Republicans went nearly 2:1 against<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They will be seeing ads from &#8216;Phants about this within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase a Roman general whose name I forget about the Germanic tribes, Republicans are completely trustworthy only for so long as you have your boot on their neck.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly in the House, it should have been made clear that this would only pass if the Republicans delivered at least 150 votes.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t just pass the bill, you shame them.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to cut a deal with these folks, you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans goal is to force painful decisions, and make the Democrats pay the political price for them: But it turns out that they didn\u2019t even wait for any actual budget deal. Here\u2019s Marco Rubio yesterday (via Ezra Klein): The first part is, of course, simply a lie: numerous reports tell us that McConnell did in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}