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Oh, I see. Krugman is a partisan idiot and the shill had every right to ignore a question about the Bush tax cuts.

No Tom, he just evaded BOTH questions with a typical Republican bullshit barrage, just like yours.

"BLOCK: On this question of tax cuts, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, what's the evidence for you that tax cuts create jobs, when you think about the record of President Bush, for example?

"Mr. HOLTZ-EAKIN: So again, I think the important thing to recognize about the plan is that it is a comprehensive plan. It is common in budget documents, which are outlines, which are then presented to the committees, to not specify the details.

"But I think the central thing to recognize is that the entitlement reform is necessary from the point of view of the budget, no question about that. It is absolutely an imperative for the economy.

"We are facing an international debt crisis. We are facing a downgrade of our ability to borrow in international markets. It's simply a path that's unsustainable. And it's also unsustainable for the beneficiaries.

"And so for those who are unhappy with the specifics of Mr. Ryan's proposals on Medicaid and Medicare, they should be under an obligation to provide their own plan."

This is so far off the questions I thought at first it might have been an error in the transcription, so I listened to the audio again, and sure enough, those are his words.

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