“I am in this race because I don’t want to see us spend the next year re-fighting the Washington battles of the 1990s. I don’t want to pit Blue America against Red America; I want to lead a United States of America.” So declared Barack Obama in Full Story »
Posted by Kelly Garrett - via Dan Kennedy, Publish2 (Politics), Opinion Source, New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Opinion), AllTop
Krugman views current Rightist attacks on Obama, via the healthcare proposals, as continuation of the irrational anti-Clinton mania "that eagerly seizes on every wild rumor manufactured by the right-wing media complex. This opposition cannot be appeased." Examples show this to be GOP strategy, which he believes only can be thwarted with "a sense of passion and outrage — passion for the goal of ensuring that every American gets the health care he or she needs, outrage at the lies and fear-mongering."
The GOP is wildly flailing in troubled waters, and will take down any who innocently swim too near.