Jared Polis is an honorary co-chair of Third Way. This is a group that doesn't really like Democratic solutions to our economic issues and fetishizes bipartisanship and the conventional wisdom that "everyone (in DC) knows" we must cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in order to achieve economic balance. The position of honorary co-chair means Third Way will honor Jared in exchange for him spouting their decidedly one-sided preference in economic policy.
Paul Krugman went on Morning Joe to discuss the realities of the economy. And while Joey Scabs lied about the programs and policies that were tried, Krugman refuted his lies by highlighting how each policy was shrunk to its minimum by deficit-hawk legislators, was skewed to tax cuts that are the least effiective economic tools in situations like this, and pushed back against the continuing effort of these deficit-hawks who want to balance the budget on the backs of the Middle Class.
Here's the key Krugman quote highlighted by Crooks and Liars:
"How many times do people like these have to be wrong and people like me have to be right?"
