maybe the point of the plan is to depress economic growth to set up the republican party for 2012 so people will be angry with president obama and maybe elect a republican. so i think this should be a huge deal. for all of the admitted stupidity and distraction in our politics, there is a big salient empirical question at the heart of it, which is should we try to help the economy by cutting spending a lot? do you think we ve actually been having an empirical discussion about that? a quantitative factual conversation about the answer to that question. oh, no, not even close. it s as if there are two dimensions. there s a real world of people and events and facts and then there s there s a narrative world in which there is only storyline. and you see example after example of this. and i hate to do this. but just let me rant about wisconsin for just one quick second please. please. because governor scott walker, in narrative world, you
republicans have picked. walker just won the governorship there three months ago. and the state is already against his big signature idea. nationally, it s even worse. 61% overall oppose what scott walker is doing. that kind of plan. it s not working. in terms of walker calling on all those republican governors who he says are going to join him, republican governors he thinks are going to follow in his big reaganesque footsteps or whatever, those governors were following his lead. they, in fact, are bailing. indiana governor mitch daniels who walker name checked on the phone, daniels called republicans in his state to yank their union-stripping legislation that they had put forward. quoting from today s washington post, walker is now calling for other governors to join him in fighting unions.รง but there aren t many takers so far. in addition to daniels, new jersey governor chris christie and terry bran stad hastad have
plan. maybe the point of the plan is to depress economic growth to set up the republican party for 2012 so people will be angry with president obama and maybe elect a republican. so i think this should be a huge deal. for all of the admitted stupidity and distraction in our politics, there is a big salient empirical question at the heart of it, which is should we try to help the economy by cutting spending a lot? do you think we ve actually been having an empirical discussion about that? a quantitative factual conversation about the answer to that question. oh, no, not even close. it s as if there are two dimensions. there s a real world of people and events and facts and then there s there s a narrative world in which there is only storyline. and you see example after example of this. and i hate to do this. but just let me rant about wisconsin for just one quick second please. please. because governor scott walker, in narrative world, you have to take away bargaining
republicans have picked. walker just won the governorship there three months ago, and the state is already against his big signature idea. nationally, it s even worse. 61% overall oppose what scott walker is doing. that kind of plan. it s not working. in terms of walker calling on all those republican governors whoa says are going to join him, republican governors he thinks are going to follow in his big reaganesque footsteps or whatever, those governors are not following his lead. they in fact are bailing. indiana governor mitch daniels, who walker name checked to the fake billionaire on the phone, mitch daniels called republicans in his state to yank their union-stripping legislation that they had put forward. quoting from today s washington post, walker is now calling for other governors to join him in fighting unions, by there aren t many takers so far. in addition to daniels, new jersey governor chris christie and iowa governor terry branstad have now become the latest governor
the man who is now speaker of the house when back in 2009 he all but shoved gm off the ledge while it was teetering, asking at the time, does anybody really believe that politicians and bureaucrats in washington can successfully steer a multinational corporation to economic viability? thank god we didn t listen to republican senator jim demint of south carolina when he complained the very next day now the government has forced taxpayers to buy these companies without any plausible plan for profitability. does anybody think the same government that plans to double the national debt in five years will turn gm around in the same time? five years, senator demint? five years? try 20 months. not only were all of those jobs saved, but there s, you know, profit. some of those anti-oracles who blew it about gm are now putting forth a republican budget plan. it calls for urgent massive budget cuts bec@ese they say the nation is so broke we cannot afford to spend any money. house republicans