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[timelets]

Kudlow is going to be the economic advisor, replacing Cohn. At least, Cohn was competent in commercial finance. In Kudlow we get another 70–year-old TV personality to defend boneheaded decisions in the media.

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[tijd]

"Larry Kudlow, great guy, everybody respects him, said my plan for taxes and tax cutting is the best by far of everybody."
https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/614371.html

[timelets]

There piling bullshit on top of bullshit. On the other hand, if Pennsylvania-18 is an indicator, people are not buying it in bulk any more.

[tijd]

This country has a wonderful opportunity to teach the world the power of "checks and balances". Let's not fuck it up.

[timelets]

We'll see. I think the opportunity is not about teaching the world anything. Rather, it's about learning how to spew out bullshit instead of swallowing it.

[tijd]

First, we will get submerged in bullshit.

From the great New York reporter Wayne Barrett (writing in 2010):

An unrepentant superstar champion of what the Senior George Bush referred to “the voodoo economics” of spend-and-slash-taxes, Kudlow does so much radio and TV that he can’t be held responsible for a thing he says, like endorsing bailouts when Junior Bush does them and banging them when Obama does. Bernie Sanders went on his show in 2008 to call him a socialist for supporting the Bush bailout and now he calls bailouts “socialism lite” himself. The coke is gone, but the head is still spinning.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/01/21/barrett-larry-kudlow-sniffs-around-for-more-political-power/

[timelets]

He's just a BS talking head. Having him as an economic adviser is joke.