Krugman on Russert NOW on CNBC -- 10 pm Eastern

[Eloriel]

Iguess for the whole hour.

TUNE IN!

Eloriel

[elfin]

1. Thank You! eom

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Thanks for the heads up

I was wondering if there was anything worth watching tonight. I guess so!

[CatWoman]

3. Beat me to it, E!!

he's really socking it to the republicans.

[never cry wolf]

4. Details anyone, please???

I am stuck at the office.

[Dudley_DUright]

5. Krugman just eviscerated the Bush tax cut policies

and Timmy looked none to pleased about it. He looked genuinely pained to have to plug Krugman's book just before the break. LOL!

[CatWoman]

6. HAHAHAHAHA

I thought Russert was going to faint. :D

[caledesi]

7. Yeah, ol' Timmy is making very strange faces...the truth hurts.

[TacticalPeek]

11. Tim is a potted plant. The earpiece barks him awake when K stops talking.

[oasis]

10. Bush's tax cuts threaten to "deplete the treasury forever".

[snyttri]

8. Thanks for the tip. More Krugman.

The Tim Russert show, as distiguished from Meet the Press, is on twice on Sat night and twice on Sun night.

[Eloriel]

9. Ooo. Ouch. "This is not your father's recession. ...

This is your grandfather's recession."

OUCH!! Go get 'em, Paul.

He was talking earlier about things being "frightening," said quite soberly. Now ThAT's frightening!

Eloriel

[TheYellowDog]

12. Krugman is awesome

n/t.

[jab105]

13. Does anyone know where to get a transcript?

I LOVE Paul Krugman, anyone know where to get the transcript of this one?

[Dudley_DUright]

15. I checked on the CNBC site

No official transcripts available (except for ones you have to order and pay for).

[madmax]

17. I use Closed Captioning on my computer

It comes up in a box. I'll see if I can cut and paste it to this thread after the show. I didn't tune in until about 10:10 or so but, I post what I can - if I can :)

[dkf]

14. This is why I support Dean.

He gets it.

[AP]

33. I'm sorry, but I can't let this pass without comment

If you've been reading DU the last few days and have paid attention to the threads about Dean's tax policy (he's into 'reform' and simplification, but won't say he's going to make the tax code progressive, which often requires credits and deductions, and he'd rather reduce the defecit that keep the middle class tax cuts) you might have seen the thread in which the krugman interview at Liberaloasis.com is cited.

A reading of Krugman's interview there suggest that he doesn't agree with Dean's position on keeping the middle class tax cuts, even though the interviewer tried to press him to support what has become Dean's position.

So, I'm inclined to say, if you agree with Krugman (who says that giving back the middle class tax cut isn't going to make a dent in the defecit and the next president is going to have to find ways to make the economy grow), you'd have to think that maybe Dean doesn't get it.

[CatWoman]

16. "We have to redo what Clinton did in order to straighten out this economy"

Paul says this is how to fix things.

He gives Clinton high marks for his leadership on the economy.

[madmax]

18. Banana Republicanization of the United States

kick ass Paul LOL

[Dudley_DUright]

19. I love the word Krugman just used

We are looking at the "bananarepublicanization" of the government (except the word just made my spell checker explode).

[madmax]

20. sounds like a great bush 2004 slogan LOL

[lancemurdoch]

21. Krugman

I've read most of Krugman's books. They're very good, and written for the layman...some of them like "Peddling Prosperity" are dense at parts, even for an economics junkie like myself...but it was definitely rewarding as it explained the past few decades of economics history very well. There's a lot to learn in economics and some of the work is pretty dense, hopefully I'll have a better grasp of it all eventually...Krugman makes it easier. He is not just a talking head expounding on the economy, he is a respected economist.

[madmax]

24. And you can see that Timmy can't stand the truth.

[madmax]

22. Wow Krugman is so good

'it's all about dismantling as much as they can of the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt.'

[Gloria]

23. "a fiscal crisis BY DESIGN".......

yup, a repeat of the Reagan years when David Stockman "went to the woodshed" for exposing the exact same plan of cutting taxes, so that going back to the level needed to fund programs could be labeled "raising taxes."

Part of the plan, says Krugman....and they are 'dishonest' in how they use the numbers....

[Cush]

25. Political Explotation

from 9/11

[madmax]

26. I'm not able to copy or cut and past from the CC

sorry :(

But, this is an excellent interview.

"If you look at the legislations that the house republican leadership in the house tried to push through in the immediate aftermath of sept. 11, it was outrageous. I was spectacular p olitical exploitation of the event.'

Will all this be in his book???

[Cush]

27. Now about the Press Corp

All throughout the 2000 Campaign they allowed Bush to get away with everything. If they just took 1 minute, they would've see the lies. His own numbers didn't add up. And they still aren't doing their jobs

[barbaraann]

28. 'Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?"

That's what he said we could be asking now.

[pasadenaboy]

29. I normally don't like Russert

but I thought he did a good job tonight, especially since Krugman slammed him for using Bush numbers to confront Dean.

He gave Krugman plenty of time to speak and tell the truth. Paul was awesome!!!

[barbaraann]

30. Except for the trap right at the end.

In the last few seconds (timed perfectly) he quoted Paul regarding how the press always presents two sides to every question. Paul agreed and then Tim said something like "but you pick one view and stick right with it" and got Paul to agree.

It was a setup to make Krugman look biased and there was no time for him to explain or retort.

Tim Russert has sold his sold to the devil.

[CatWoman]

31. What Paul actually said was

that the "mainstream" media always tries to show both sides, whereas the hardcore "right wing" media shows only one side.

[shance]

32. A typical trick - the 'you are liberal so what you say doesnt matter'

Next time I hope Paul will say,

The side I am on is the truth. If the truth is now defined as liberal then hey, so be it!

[Bozita]

34. Russert/Krugman replay Sunday at 7pm EDT on CNBC

wanna see it.