Rubin gets an earful from fellow Dems

[Zkribbler]

My parents are Muslim, I'm already suspect .

Only suspect?? I figured, you'd have been arrested and imprisoned by now. Those guys down in Homeland Security are really falling down on the job. They must have heard that Hurricane Katrina is approaching New Orleans are they are currently racing to the rescue.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
So, do you think we should have free trade with China, who overvalues their currency by 40%? Do you think that goods produced by slave or child labor should be allowed to be sold in the US? What about products that are produced in ways that are environmentally abhorrent to us?

Yes yes yes.

[DanS]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Still no source for the OP? Dan, are you quoting rightwing news sites again?

Oerdin, you've long since become a parody of yourself. I sourced the article to the WSJ, Page 1, December 19. FYI, the WSJ is the 2nd largest newspaper in the US.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
It looks like Odin isn't interested in staying the majority party .

Looks like Imran dosn't understand the growing populist backlash against Neo-Liberalism that was important in this election... *cough* Jon Tester *cough*

[Odin]

Originally posted by DanS

FYI, the WSJ is the 2nd largest newspaper in the US.

And very biased towards the ideology of the Transnational corporate elitles who worship the God of Neo-Liberalism.

[Kuciwalker]

Go back to your corner.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Odin
And very biased towards the ideology of the Transnational corporate elitles who worship the God of Neo-Liberalism.

Not Neo-Liberalism but rather Paleo-Plutocracy.

[MrFun]

From the article in the OP:

"inflation-adjusted wages haven't risen much, if at all, for many Americans in the middle, employers have been trimming health and retirement benefits, and anxiety about outsourcing has spread from blue-collar factory workers to their white-collar counterparts."


Who is surprised to hear that employees are often screwed over? Wages that no longer keep pace with cost of living, outsourcing jobs, anal retentive policies of employers concerning job benefits . . . . .

[Imran Siddiqui]

[q=Odin]Looks like Imran dosn't understand the growing populist backlash against Neo-Liberalism that was important in this election[/q]

I'm absolutely shocked that you thought that populism against neo-liberal economic policies was important in this election. You've amazingly deluded yourself into thinking that it was economics really was a driving issue in the last election.

[chequita guevara]

I thought Odin was a socialist, not a liberal weenie.

[GePap]

Just being a republican does not make someone a free trader - look at Pat Buchanan.

[Whoha]

He last ran as a reform candidate though.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
[q=Odin]Looks like Imran dosn't understand the growing populist backlash against Neo-Liberalism that was important in this election[/q]

I'm absolutely shocked that you thought that populism against neo-liberal economic policies was important in this election. You've amazingly deluded yourself into thinking that it was economics really was a driving issue in the last election.

Yup in fact it was a combination of dissatisfaction in foreign policy execution vis-avis- Iraq, the accepatance of the meme of culture of corruption, as well as smoldering resentment of the base of abandonment of fiscal restraint that led to the results we see.

No real meaningful message of economics was ever entered into the public debate primarily because the Dems didn't present one. They had enough ammo with the attack the Repugs strategy they never had to flesh out or defend an agenda for themselves.