tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post1623476157466261253..comments2024-03-27T11:10:52.382-07:00Comments on On My Mind: Government "By The People"Jayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-63709109488754849812011-05-09T13:11:42.692-07:002011-05-09T13:11:42.692-07:00"...does not make the idiots blameless, which...<i>"...does not make the idiots blameless, which is what you are implying."</i><br /><br />I'm not implying anything, I'm stating it outright. The idiots are not blameless. Nor are they entirely to blame, and I did not say that they are.<br /><br />What I said was they are not "free of responsibility" for the tax cut, that they do not "escape any responsibility for" the Iraq war, and that they are "to some degree" paying the price of their own cupidity.<br /><br />Krugman, on the other hand, claims that "responsibility wasn't the man in the street."Jayhawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-1461900264042936122011-05-09T11:07:14.344-07:002011-05-09T11:07:14.344-07:00Your explaination does not rule out Mr. Krugman...Your explaination does not rule out Mr. Krugman's rationale... it just says there is a higher power that the elected officials answer to, namely the public. That the public keeps electing idiots does not make the idiots blameless, which is what you are implying.<br /><br />No, I don't agree to all of what he says, just pointing out that neither of you are totally correct.brucenoreply@blogger.com