Paul Krugman on CSPAN 2 (Booknotes) at 6:30pm EST Sun 10/19/03

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[Jim Sagle]

1. Kick

...coming right up NOW! 75 minutes long.

Going into detail about the 2003 tax cut.

Describes the regime's lying as up-is-downism.

How bad was it? "I miss Ronald Reagan."

"I also miss Richard Nixon."

Go to the Heritage Foundation website and check out how the plan is to starve the government and destroy its programs.

Why don't we hear more about it?

1) It's too bad to face up to.

2) Much of the media is hard right while the rest is evenhanded instead of objective.

We're heading toward a banana republic. But we have the resources to deal with the situation. We also have the public on our side, basically. But people don't know what's happening.
3) The intimidation level is quite high.

Questioned about Ahnold. Says the election shows how bad the media is.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Starve the government and Ahnold...

Starve the government - he's got that right...when are Americans going to get the wake-up call?

Ahnold - a media delivered win, a little gift from Murdoch, GE, and Time-Warner.

(Did Ahnold, the toucher, talk about who owns Ahnold - the cabal or Buffet - or did they talk about burying the lawsuit against Enron?)