yeah, Larry Kudlow, I'll never forget that asshole writing an article, publicly pushing for us to bomb Iraq in the summer of 2002 just so the stock market would have a big rally
fuck republicans
fuck social conservatives
fuck ayn rand libertarians
fuck fundamental religious holier-than-thou assholes
fuck greedy selfish pigs
fuck people who say both sides are to blame so they can conveniently pretend to hide in the middle
fuck them all
Stocks and Bombs
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 13, 2002
'This stock-market situation -- what are the military options?' That was the caption of a New Yorker cartoon last month. But these days reality has a way of outrunning satire; way back in June the CNBC pundit Larry Kudlow published a column in The Washington Times with the headline 'Taking Back the Market -- by Force.' In it he argued for an invasion of Iraq to boost the Dow.
Pretty amazing stuff, though not as amazing as a July column in The New York Post by John Podhoretz, whose headline read 'October Surprise, Please,' followed by the injunction 'Go On, Mr. President: Wag the Dog.'
In general it's a bad omen when advocates of a policy claim that it will solve problems unrelated to its original purpose. The shifting rationale for the Bush tax cut -- it's about giving back the surplus; no, it's a demand stimulus; no, it's a supply-side policy -- should have warned us that this was an obsession in search of a justification.
The shifting rationale for war with Iraq -- Saddam Hussein was behind Sept. 11 and the anthrax attacks; no, but he's on the verge of developing nuclear weapons; no, but he's a really evil man (which he is) -- has a similar feel.
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