Comments on: Republicans Already Teed Off With Tea Party

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:49:25 +0000

The only real hope that the Republicans provide for America is gridlocking with the Democrats. Left to their own or forming a “bipartisan” consensus, they would be as disasterous as the Democrats left on their own.

Some observer (whose name I forgot) said that CONSERVATIVES like a government that interferes with everything overseas, LIBERALS like a government that interferes with everything at home, and MODERATES like a government that interferes with everything home and abroad. Sadly, in order to “win”, each party has to compromise with the “moderates”.

Many of the “libertarians” at Reason would be happy in Socialistic Holland or Sweden if they can get sex and dope. Low taxes is “cool” but nothing to get too bothered over. Of course, with the economy tanking, maybe sex and dope is all we can aim for!

By: Stephen Bernier

Stephen Bernier — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:24:58 +0000

an interesting clip and one that makes Mr. Geithner look incompetent. I wish I could have seen more, but I cannot find the whole of her questioning. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Stephen Bernier

Stephen Bernier — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:23:23 +0000

http://firefromtheheartland.com/?gclid=CIK128LQkaUCFUNl7AodHRtlMg

By: Stephen Bernier

Stephen Bernier — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:09:32 +0000

I watched a video of Michelle Bachmann questioning, tax cheat, Timothy Geithner about the spending and bailouts and what constitutional authority the treasury had to be spending money in that respect (I believe that I am paraphrasing the video correctly); the look on Mr. Geithner’s face was most telling. You could tell he had no idea what she was asking.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:30:47 +0000

The Republicans are mostly adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The Republican uppers need to be purged as bad as the Democrats. At least the Democrats are working toward a goal, as reprehensible as that goal might be, but the Republicans are just tryint to hang on to the Democrats coat tails and save their soft gigs inside the beltway. The Tea Partiers may be rough and unsophisticated but that’s why they can be effective. Let’s hope they don’t let the Washington cess pool swallow them up.

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:02:34 +0000

I disagree about Michelle Bachmann's understanding of monetary policy. Simply knowing that printing money is likely to produce inflation does not mean you understand monetary policy! We need Austrian economists who TRULY understand the underlying models that Scott Sumner can explain. Enough of this claptrap about a non-existent hyperinflation. Do you not realize that talking about "impending hyperinflation" that most Austrian econ bloggers have been doing since 2008 while anything but has actually resulted is as destructive to their credibility as Paul Krugman's endless whining about the stimulus being too small when he said it was sizable enough to keep unemployment below 8%? Come on Ilana. Make a bet. When is this hyperinflation going to strike? Ill even assume a QE3 of 600 Billion more. Its not too much to ask that Austrian econ fans study and understand the Monetarist and New-Keynesian models seriously before opining on them. (No thats not OLD keynesian - which is a dinosaur and extinct). I am a free marketeer. I believe in the power of Austrian econ. Most Austrian econ fans can demolish any microeconomic arguments put forward by leftists or "Republikeynesians." They can also demolish old keynesianism quite easily and some can also destroy old Monetarism (like Roger Garrison). However, when it comes to the latest synthesis of New Keynesian, quasi-monetarist models, the Austrians are flailing in the winds predicting hyperinflation since 2008.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:24:14 +0000

I left Reason magazine shortly after Virginia Postrel did. The new editor said that since the gun control fight, socialism fight were over that he was going to make Reason into the ‘New Republic’ I already had enough of Michael Kinsley and didn’t renew. If the Republicans ever recognized Michelle Bachmann, it would be a act of God, nothing else can bring their heads out of the mud. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and all that.