Ethics-free hacks
So "prominent Berkeley economist Brad DeLong" calls opponents of the stimulus plan "ethics free Republican hacks." (Hat tip to Jesse Walker at reason, by way of Antiwar.com.)
Good one.
Given that what DeLong and Paul Krugman and their fascist troll ilk are peddling - economic "stimulus" and the nonsensical notion that we can spend ourselves rich - is nothing more than a slathering of whore's makeup over history’s greatest known transfer of wealth to the very wealthy. Which wealth, by the way, is going to be ripped off our bodies like skin, through the miracle of hyperinflation.
To be sure, the Republicans clamoring in opposition to the bailout are ethics free hacks. Leaving aside the fact that's a truism - nobody gets elected to national office without being one - let's recognize their stance for the cheap ploy it is. The Republicans know the American people are largely wise to the fact this is all egregious socialism for the rich (a tautology anyway); they're just pandering. Of course they favor the bailout: they're employed by the same people the Democrats are, and that isn't the voters.
And after all, the bailout was one of the final pet projects of George W. Bush.
This is a trick the Democrats have proven adept at: vocally opposing Bush's war against American liberties at home and todo lo mundo abroad - and then voting for every stinking scrap of it, from funding the war waged against Iraq in total opposition to US strategic interests, to the confirmation of whatever torture monkey the Busheviks threw up to be Attorney General. Few were more assiduous at that than the new puppetoon President - whose definition of change, you should be realizing now, means "more of the same, only bigger and harder."
It's possible the Republicans in Congress will make a show of voting against the transfer of wealth to their masters - in full knowledge it'll pass pretty much no matter what they do.
Certainly the Krugmans and DeLongs and all the rest of their choir are fascists - the polite term being Keynesians. The question is, are they idiotic enough to believe what they're saying? One almost hopes they're simply bought.
And that they had the sense to demand to be paid in the traditional silver.
Ethics-free hacks, indeed.