{"id":19484,"date":"2011-04-21T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19484"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:17:50","slug":"krugman-is-the-last-refugee-of-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19484","title":{"rendered":"Krugman Is The Last Refugee Of Duh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Krugman, four days ago, saying\u00a0civility is not so important<\/a>, in a piece called “Civility Is The Last Refuge Of Scoundrel”…:<\/p>\n

The easy, and perfectly fair, shot is to talk about the hypocrisy here; where were all the demands for civility when Republicans were denouncing Obama as a socialist, accusing him of creating death panels, etc..? Why is it OK for Republicans to accuse Obama of stealing from Medicare, but not OK for Obama to declare, with complete truthfulness, that those same Republicans are trying to dismantle the whole program?<\/p>\n

Beyond that, are we dealing with children here? Is one of our two major political parties run by people so immature that they will refuse to do what the country needs because the president hasn\u2019t been nice to them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Krugman last January<\/a>, re the Giffords shooting:<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She\u2019s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target, the answer is that she\u2019s a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona, precisely because the Republicans nominated a Tea Party activist. (Her father says that \u201cthe whole Tea Party\u201d was her enemy.) And yes, she was on Sarah Palin\u2019s infamous \u201ccrosshairs\u201d list.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it\u2019s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we\u2019re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it\u2019s long past time for the GOP\u2019s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Krugman’s message; be civil. \u00a0To Democrats.<\/p>\n

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Paul Krugman, four days ago, saying\u00a0civility is not so important, in a piece called “Civility Is The Last Refuge Of Scoundrel”…: The easy, and perfectly fair, shot is to talk about the hypocrisy here; where were all the demands for civility when Republicans were denouncing Obama as a socialist, accusing him of creating death panels, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19487,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19484\/revisions\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}