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• BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News | Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude: ... as overall unemployment has remained low, a little-noted weakness in the labor market that analysts said threatens to intensify the impact of the unfolding economic downturn.' 1/22 Paul Krugman: Debunking the Reagan Myth 1/22 ...
• Corrente | Boldly shrill ... (#): Submitted by lambert on Mon, 2008-01-21 01:52. Krugman today , let me fair-use the bulk of it: Historical narratives matter. ...
• Suburban Guerrilla (#): Jan 21st, 2008 by Susie Krugman: I understand why conservatives want to rewrite history and pretend that these good things happened while a Republican was in office — or claim, implausibly, that the 1981 Reagan tax cut somehow deserves credit for positive ...
• Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community: ... BooMan Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 12:50:52 PM EST In the process of continuing his pissing match with Barack Obama, Paul Krugman finds an acorn : Maybe Mr. Obama was, as his supporters insist, simply praising Reagan’s political skills. ...
• MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics (#): ... Obama's praise of Reagan has been played again and again, with the egging on of both the Edwards and the Clintons (2 on 1 again), bloggers and more... because no one who is a real progressive will agree with a positive frame of Reagan. Period. As Krugman asks : ...where in his remarks was the clear declaration that Reaganomics failed? ...Given that reality, what was Mr. Obama talking about? ...why would a self-proclaimed progressive say anything that lends credibility ...
• Hullabaloo: ... I speculated that they were intended both to acknowledge and co-opt the Village's myth of St. Ron of Hollywood. Krugman thinks it was more specific than that: ...Obama’s recent statement, in an interview with a Nevada newspaper, that Reagan offered a “sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.” ...
• The Sideshow: ... It's difficult to find people who are knowledgeable enough in a specialized field to cover it intelligently who don't also have social relationships in that field, so this kind of issue would come up with some frequency.) Paul Krugman, in " Debunking the Reagan Myth ", once again reminds us that you don't get to be a transformative leader if you don't use transforming language, and you sure won't transform it if you keep making it sound like Reagan was right. ...
• AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth (#): ... The rich all did quite well, but beyond that, their records on providing economic benefits to hard working Americans is terrible. Democrats ought to be pounding away at the facts that show how badly Reagan and Bush hurt the middle class . Let the GOP talk about how wonderful those years were and see how far it gets them. We used to be a country that believed in succeeding as a nation, but Reagan and Bush did their best to destroy those ideas. ...
• Alternate Brain (#): Paul Krugman on Reaganomics, AKA 'it'll trickle down if you're downstairs in the outhouse': This is, in short, a time when progressives ought to be driving home the idea that the right’s ideas don’t work, and never have. ...
• onegoodmove: I thought these things might be clues. (#): Debunking the Reagan Myth - New York Times Historical narratives matter. That’s why conservatives are still writing books denouncing F.D.R. and the New Deal; they understand that the way Americans perceive bygone eras, even eras from the seemingly distant past, affects ...
• Prairie Weather (#): ... They have been educated by their culture to use the correct (partisan) terms or suffer social and political damnation. Either you're with us or you're against us. There's something unusually petty and positively Soviet about Paul Krugman's choice of target today. ... How we talk about the Reagan era still matters immensely for American politics. ...
• Random Thoughts from Reno: ... Paul Krugman takes the Audacity of Hype's attempt to rewrite history . Posted by Susan ...
• Bark Bark Woof Woof (#): MEMO: To Barack Obama FROM: Historical Perspective Stop saying Reaganomics worked because if they did, they would still be working, and they're obviously not. Sucking up to the right wing just shows that you can be sucker-punched. ...
• Easter Lemming Liberal News (#): ... Where to apply the stimulus - poor workers and infrastructure projects. Debunking the Reagan myth. Josh - Why in the Hell should Edwards drop out? Does Public Opinion Count? - video. ...
• Economist's View (#): Paul Krugman explains why people should be upset with Barack Obama's praise of Ronald Reagan: Debunking the Reagan Myth, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, New York Times : Historical narratives matter. That’s why conservatives are still writing books denouncing F.D.R. and the New Deal; they understand that the way Americans perceive bygone eras ... affects politics today. ...
• Internet Weekly Report - Issue 306 - Week of 01/21/2008: ... As The Blog Turns 01/21/2008 Debunking the Reagan Myth This op-ed piece by Paul Krugman should be required reading for Barack Obama, and others who think Reagan was genius. ...
• Middle Earth Journal (#): ... Over at The Left Coaster eriposte did a good job of taking down Obama and Markos Moulitsas' defense of them. Today Paul Krugman, who thinks even less of Obama than I do, explains why Obama's comments were ill advised at best . Historical narratives matter. That’s why conservatives are still writing books denouncing F.D.R. and the New Deal; they understand that the way Americans perceive bygone eras, even eras from the seemingly distant past, affects ...
• RealClearPolitics - Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls: ... Faith in Obama - Rod Dreher, Dallas Morning News Debunking the Reagan Myth - Paul Krugman, New York Times ...
• Democrat Taylor Marsh Broadcasts Live Talk Radio and Blogs Politics (#): ... Given that reality, what was Mr. Obama talking about? Some good things did eventually happen to the U.S. economy — but not on Reagan’s watch. ... .. Debunking the Reagan Myth ...
• 2Millionth Web Log: ... January 21, 2008 Mount Ronmore Krugman does some debunking , although he concludes, grudging or not, by accepting Obama's premise that Bill Clinton did NOT "change America's trajectory the way Ronald Reagan did"-- Why? ...
• The American Liberalism Project -- A Progressive Forum (#): ... Jan 21, 2008 at 11:00:05 AM CST Paul Krugman in Monday's NYT has ripped open the shrine being built daily around the Gipper, that "great communicator" of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan , whom the neocorporatists among the Republican venerate so devotedly. Having lived in a state agency, the California State University, during Reagan's endless eight years as governor, I can attest to every thing Krugman says and then some. ...
• Hoffmania! | All That's Left! Liberal News & Free Speech (#): Finally. FINALLY. My most indelible recollection of the glorious Reagan years was a mortgage at 13.375% and no tax cut, being in the middle class. Paul Krugman goes after Obama's startling praise of this dark economic era for most of America. Maybe Mr. Obama was, as his supporters insist, simply praising Reagan’s political skills. ...
• The Newshoggers (#): By Libby Krugman takes a look at the politico's latest love affair with "The Great Communicator." ...
• Norwegianity (#): ... Maybe Mr. Obama was, as his supporters insist, simply praising Reagan’s political skills. (I think he was trying to curry favor with a conservative editorial board, which did in fact endorse him.) [ Paul Krugman, New York Times ] And then, like countless editorialists, ...
• Matthew Yglesias (#): 21 Jan 2008 10:26 am I think this is getting a bit silly. In his column , Paul Krugman seems to suggest that the main reason the Clinton administration failed to bring about major progressive change in the 1990s is that they didn't talk enough smack about Ronald Reagan. ...