NY Times - Paul Krugman - "It’s Witch-Hunt Season" - Great Article!

[TomCADem]

The one thing I part company with Krugman is the notion that the President has played it safe, particularly if he does nominate Elizabeth Warren as head of the new consumer agency. From the stimulus, to the auto bailout, to health care reform, to financial reform, the President has reverse the anti-regulatory tide of the past few decades. If the President was playing it safe, you would not be seeing the venom you now see on the right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30krugman.html

The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administration to unrelenting harassment — at one point taking 140 hours of sworn testimony over accusations that the White House had misused its Christmas card list.

Now it’s happening again — except that this time it’s even worse. Let’s turn the floor over to Rush Limbaugh: “Imam Hussein Obama,” he recently declared, is “probably the best anti-American president we’ve ever had.”

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Anyone who remembered the 1990s could have predicted something like the current political craziness. What we learned from the Clinton years is that a significant number of Americans just don’t consider government by liberals — even very moderate liberals — legitimate. Mr. Obama’s election would have enraged those people even if he were white. Of course, the fact that he isn’t, and has an alien-sounding name, adds to the rage.

By the way, I’m not talking about the rage of the excluded and the dispossessed: Tea Partiers are relatively affluent, and nobody is angrier these days than the very, very rich. Wall Street has turned on Mr. Obama with a vengeance: last month Steve Schwarzman, the billionaire chairman of the Blackstone Group, the private equity giant, compared proposals to end tax loopholes for hedge fund managers with the Nazi invasion of Poland.

[chill_wind]

1. "..nobody is angrier these days than the very, very rich."

I wouldn't bet on that.

[RandomThoughts]

2. Shakespear spoke of that also.

Three Witches Macbeth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQWYqMaLkQ


Maybe he meant something else by that. Hmmm.....


Anyone know what that story is about, or if the entire play is online, thinking about it, I have never read or seen Macbeth, and think it might be interesting.