Paul Krugman says: Be very afraid if elections go as expected next week

Your scare tactics didn't work, your name calling didn't work, trying to blame everything on Bush didn't work. Americans are not stupid like you think. The Democratic FAILED policies are real no matter how you try to spin it. This is a referendum on Obama's Policies. America is speaking out loud and clear !!!! Now everyone knows what CHANGE is and NO ONE wants it, well Obama does and a few radical left wing nut jobs do also, but America DOES NOT !!!

I wish I had seen this post before half the comments were removed. Wow.

Krugman has a few things backward.
If Obama works with the Republicans it will be because he has finally made the effort to do so. They were excluded from most of the big legislation over the past two years.
The so -called Republican shutdown of the government in the 90's can be equally shared by Clinton. He had his position and theRepublcians had theirs. Clinton stubbornly refused to deal and, in the end, the republicans gave in rather than let Clinton continure to shut the government down.
Let's not forget the tech-stock meltdown when the Dow and many 401(k)'s lost 50% or more of their value. This started in March 2000 and continued for a year.
Krugman is myoptic. Any running of the government, if Republicans take the Hill, will depend on both parties working together. Unfortunately, to Democrats and liberals, that menas doing it their way only. OBAMA has to learn what is means to work with the Republicans not the other way around.

I agree with Mr. Krugman. Unfortunately, I am afraid that too many Americans have drunk the Fox News Kool-Aid.

Turn off Fox News!

Fox News is bad for America!

Dems and Reps will loosebut the Constitution will win

I just read an analysis the other day about how our political landscape looks like 1982. Granted that was a Republican president, but the same set up was there; the economy and jobs were down, the incumbent party was killed and the prez was next. then the economy recovered and the jobs came back and now Reagan is looked back on as a great president.

so when the republicans take the house and maybe the senate, we don't have to use the 90's as a blueprint, if the economy can progress a little bit, all will be forgiven and the government will balance out again for another generation and we'll see how we fuck it up again in 20 years.

Thanks for the post, but, sadly I don't think anything short of a French Revolution response will do anything to help. We are far too apathetic, lethargic and complacent in this day and age to do anything other than send out emails in all capitol letters. Sorry America, but you are a pussy.

Thechimera that we have a choice continues as usual. BTW Is it possible for us to do a DDOS attack on that jerk spamming us ? We've enough members that the potential might be there.

Nothing at all is going to change. The whole attitude of we are right, and everyone else is wrong, is being practiced by both sides. The fact that the conservative side, votes against EVERYTHING the other side puts up, and the same with the Dems voting against EVERYTHING the right puts up is just ridiculous. Considering that if you pay attention to what they all do, it's obvious that Corporate America owns both parties.

What has become clear to me is that from the moment that President Obama was elected the attitude of conservatives was that if they were not in power then they were willing to sabotage this nations efforts to climb out of the hole that they and their policies had created. They are like a jilted lover who kills the object of his desire... or in other words. if he can't have her, nobody can! To be blunt about it, if they can't screw this country they are willing to destroy it..a scorched earth tactic that retreating armies use to deny their enemies any benefit from it......They have often used the name of Hitler to try and tar our president, but I have to tell you their tactics are remarkably reminiscent of his order to destroy Paris rather than concede it to the allies...from my perspective that is exactly what they are doing with their filibustering and outright statements that call for the failure of our president and his efforts to restore our economy to what it was prior to the utter destruction of it during the eight year disaster that is the hallmark of the Bush administration..

I think Krugman is correct in his analysis. However, what is less certain is America's reaction to the GOP's "strategy". A large majority of Americans are in trouble financially and cutting taxes doesn't help much when you're unemployed. If the GOP goes through with things like cutting unemployment benefits, welfare, while fighting to keep Bush's tax break to the wealthy I don't see things going well for them in the short term or long term. There is only so much hypocrisy that the American public will tolerate.

That said, I still expect them to try. Primarily because like most conservatives, they don't face facts and have no understanding of basic human nature. That lack of understanding is why they are the way they are.

Also, like they say, payback is a bitch. They have shown their colors when Obama extended the olive branch to them in 2009. I don't expect that democrats in congress will forget that and will repay them in kind by using the fillibuster to stall any bills that are presented by the House.

Additionally there are several legislative landmines that now will be the headache of the GOP. One is that come April they will be forced to raise the federal spending limit to allow the government to pay it's bills. This will likely send the Tea Baggers into a frenzy that will blow up in the GOPs face.

Second will be the issue about extending tax cuts for the wealthy. Liberals got angry with Reid and Pelosi when they punted on that issue such that it wouldn't get voted on until after the elections. As far as I'm concerned the move was brilliant strategy on their part. They dropped the ball in the lap of the GOP.

Now while the GOP is busy cutting things like unemployment and welfare benefits because 'we can't afford them', they will be hard pressed to explain why they are adding 4 trillion dollars to the federal deficit by allowing the tax breaks to continue. As I indicated I don't see any of this going well for them.

In other words, the Republicans refuse to be of any help to America as long as the black man is in office.

more fear gee I think people who have control and power worried they are about to lose it .. Voted all out people ..

Mehh. I think the media coverage of these nuts make people believe that the tea party is a majority. And that makes people not bother to vote. I have faith that our country will get better as soon as we decide to come together as American citizens instead of Democrats and Republicans; whites and blacks; Muslims and Christians.

Anyways, I think the tea party will be more detrimental to the GOP in the long run. Soon enough, the tea party candidates will be running against moderate republicans and that will divide the party... So, I'm not panicking yet.

unfortunately krugman iz right on wiv dis 1 :(

I don't think the american people are ready for what is about to happen if the elections goes as expected.

The greatest move the Tea bagging Republican party could do, would be to shut down government in a time when it is needed most. I pity any member of the republican party that sides with this faction cause they will surely die. The Phony trumped up Tea Party is just the tip of the sword of disgruntled citizens who really care about our government. The Tea Party represents the old dissatisfied racially motivated sector of America, it is a totally tactical mis-judgement of where the real America stands. Literally tens of millions of Americans stand ready to stomp these types as fast as you can say, it's on.

Great post navider, this is exactly what I have been warning people about. But as I have also warned, we need too expose who the bad people are and hit bottom before we can eliminate them. I am looking forward to a battle against evil in the darkest kind, after years of fighting them legally the country needs a dose of pure justice. It will clean the slate and i am ready and willing to fight too the end.

Does anyone see this country actually making any progress when the main republican motive is to prevent Obama from getting re-elected in 2012?

I really hope Krugman is not right but he almost always is. This should scare the crap out of everyone, liberal and conservative because we will all end up paying the cost of this.