Larry Kudlow Mulling Run For Chris Dodd's Seat
By Nicole Belle Sunday Mar 01, 2009 2:00pmLarry Kudlow showing his "compassionate conservative" side. (h/t Heather)
This strikes me as hilarious:
Here at CPAC a well placed source with knowledge of the Republican Senate Committee plans tells me that Larry Kudlow is "considering" a Senate run against embattled Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd.
Larry Kudlow has a long track record of being wrong about just about everything. Just last week, for instance, he was addled enough to say of Obama's mortage plan that "the people who win here are Fannie and Freddie. The Americans who paid their taxes on time and their mortgages on time get hurt" - even though Fannie and Freddie are, of course, now owned by the US government. And that's just one example among many, many more - check out Atrios's archives for all kinds of gems.
We have lots and lots of gems from Larry Kudlow as well. In fact, this is a Republican challenger that I'm actually looking forward to, for no other reason than the amount of damage we can do to Kudlow's credibility simply by using his own words.
Also...joy of all joys...since the conservative blogosphere went nuts and demanded that Chris Matthews be relieved of his NBC/MSNBC duties if he threw his hat in the ring in Pennsylvania, dare we hope that Larry Kudlow would be similarly removed from the airwaves?
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Videos of wingnut rants--the gift that keeps on giving. My guess is that it is for just these reasons (and his typical wingnut cowardice)that Kudlow won't run.
Hey, Larry, get lost, and take Curley and Moe with you.
We want to keep this seat for the Democratic Party
It's amazing any repug could make money listening to these idiots. They either don't believe their own bs or are going broke on the advice of people like Kudlow and Bob Brinker.
Kudlow probably has massive amounts of yes men around him telling him he'd win.
He would be utterly humiliated. The GOP still thinks it won in 2008.
He is Full of crap! Delusional is as delusional does... He can not comprehend reality.
Is Chris Dodd really "embattled" in any way that would make this seemingly safe seat be at risk?
...listen to this smarmy snake-oil salesman for more than 5 seconds?
shill, rainmaker. If anyone believes this guy, EVER, they are nuts!
NEVER believe anything a corporate bag man says on the tv.
You will lose.
Every time.
You will find out in short order that the 70 percenters don't have much tolerance for a right wing hack with a big mouth. You can get away with that pontificating crap on CNBC, but not with the majority of voters.
1) I was surprised to see there were separate call-in lines for Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Is this standard practice on American phone-in shows? Whatever happened to plain old citizens? Why not just take calls as they come?
2) Last year on his CNBC TV show and in his National Review column, Kudlow loudly scorned anyone who criticized Bush's economic record, and ridiculed the all-too-real recession (now spiralling into depression). There are miles of Kudlow's own videotape and column-inches out there to hang this blowhard with.
Kudlow remains a fan of supply-side economics, the totally discredited idea that tax cuts result in increased government revenue and budget surpluses. Maybe there's a planet out there where this worked, just not this one.
3) Kudlow knows whereof he speaks when he tells the caller to send his kid to AA. During his time as Budget Director in the Reagan administration, and his subsequent job as chief economist at Bear Stearns, Kudlow developed a serious cocaine habit. He was fired by Bear Stearns in 1994. He admitted his addiction, got treatment, picked up work in the media, then went on an extended coke binge. In 1995, his wife petitioned the courts in NY to freeze their bank accounts to stop him from buying coke, and Larry went into long-term drug treatment.
I just heard a listener take them to task for it, but they seem to think it's fair.
called the Bush economy "The greatest story never told" and "The Goldilocks Economy". Never right, but seldom in doubt.
What was the Goldilocks economy suppose to be anyway? I was never quite sure of that.
Larry Stripes, a Goldilocks economy was not too cool, not too hot-juuust right. The man's a regular Nostradumus.
That is kind of what I thought. He was saying that the economy was "just right" when it was tumbling into the abyss. He was saying this only a few months (or later) before the meltdown in September. Not mush different from his friend Cramer.
interesting to watch the wingnuts get all worked up when the Democrats are in office. Larry just loves him some "cowboy capitalism" and hates, just hates, redistribution of wealth. Unless it's upward to the top 1%. Then, it's OK.
What amazes me is that these ass wipes cannot wrap their minds around the reality that if there is a healthy middle class than the rich will get richer than they ever dreamed of. To stifle the middle class, as they wish, is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
mentioned to me, just like that WWII movie, they went "A Bridge Too Far".
I look forward to hearing his concession speech.
Dear Lar, Remember to take your crack pipe on the campaign trail with you.
Perfect! Let us make Kudlow, Limbaugh, Hannity, all of them run for office and put their mouths on the line with real Americans. Then we'll see how much of a supposed "center-right" country we are or how much sympathy we have for spoiled rotten rich people and their tax protections. Good luck, Kudlow!
Normally I'd agree, but it depends where they'd run. I'm pretty sure Limbaugh and Hannity would win in Arkansas. If they were forced to run where they actually LIVE, however....nope.
If we could coax these thug puppets to run for office, then they'd actually have to face an opposing argument for the first time in their lives.
Oh, I do believe I'm drooling a little...
I like to send Kudlow to Market Fundamentalism Anonymous!
Hi, I'm Larry, and I'm a Free Marketeer.
Hi, Larry. (You dick!)
To Larry, a person in favor of regulation is treasonous. Too bad about that peanut co., eh? Just a few people died. Profits are UP, though!!!
To larry, money is the highest moral standard, and man is driven by greed. Seriously? Do people really want to elect someone with such a base view of humanity?
Oh, and one more thing: how many jobs has this blowhard created? What a worthless waste of skin.
God damn it Nicole I wish you would not make such a big deal out of this. Now he may not run. As you stated we could have killed two birds with one stone (or for vegetarians two zucchini with one hoe). We could have had him taken off of CNBC AND shown him for the asshole he is. Bummer. Now he may see that running for Senate is not in his best interest but with Kudlow you never know if he can see the forest through the trees. There is certainly enough evidence that he can't. We can only hope.
By the way that is a great search trick to find articles about anything on any give blog --- "kudlow site:eschatonblog.com"
Sounds like a good idea. In fact, I'd encourage the Republicans to run ex Wall Street traders in ALL the Senate elections.
Well he ought to fit right in.
he's been spending his whole life living off of Art Laffer's table scraps.
How wrong can Art Laffer be? Pretty wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o
things go better with COKE, kudlow is not one of them. am i the only one who remembers when he was DISMISSED FROM BEAR STEARNS FOR USING THE STUFF?????
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