Krugman’s response today to the Republican Congressional obstructionism:

The truth, of course, is that the country is hemorrhaging jobs and Americans are heading to the poorhouse by the millions. The stock markets and the value of the family home have collapsed, and there is virtual across-the-board agreement that the country is caught up in the worst economic disaster since at least World War II.

The Republican answer to this turmoil?

Tax cuts.

They need to go into rehab.

The question that I would like answered is why anyone listens to this crowd anymore. G.O.P. policies have been an absolute backbreaker for the middle class. (Forget the poor. Nobody talks about them anymore, not even the Democrats.) The G.O.P. has successfully engineered a wholesale redistribution of wealth to those already at the top of the income ladder and then, in a remarkable display of chutzpah, dared anyone to talk about class warfare.

Krugman goes on to give some examples, if you’re not convinced. I’ve understood for years that the Republicans were waging class warfare. They have no real concern for the middle class and the poor. The state of our economy today is the direct result of their efforts. No one on the Democratic side should be afraid to state that truth front and center throughout this stimulus discussion.

There is no reason to accommodate the failed policies of the Republican Party. That’s another truth we need to state out loud, over and over again.