Make Them Stop

Watching functional morons like Mitch McConnell rail against the stimulus plan as pork laden tax and spend liberal policies, rather than just about the only thing we can do to stave off a complete economic collapse, begs the obvious question as to why we would listen to the the very individuals who are responsible for this mess. Krugman points out that the approaches to the current crisis really reflect the fundamental world views of the parties, rather than some sort of true economic debate.

You see, this isn’t a brainstorming session — it’s a collision of fundamentally incompatible world views. If one thing is clear from the stimulus debate, it’s that the two parties have utterly different economic doctrines. Democrats believe in something more or less like standard textbook macroeconomics; Republicans believe in a doctrine under which tax cuts are the universal elixir, and government spending is almost always bad.

Listening to McConnell, Shelby and the like try to wrap their parochial world view around the crisis at hand is more than maddening, it can only be compared to listening to Cheney and Bush criticizing the new administration for not continuing the absurd policy of poking the hornet's nest that they relentlessly bashed for the past eight years. At what point will the American people stop listening to the folks who are directly responsible for our current mess? More importantly, can the Obama administration call these jokers out for the charlatans and blockheads that they are?

Digby calls out the Dems for their approach. She's right.