Vote Republican. Stuff happens.

Paul Krugman's frustration is growing.  Enough with Republican fear tactics -- we need a stimulus plan that's clear and workable.  "Conservatives," he writes, "really, really don’t want to see a second New Deal, and they certainly don’t want to see government activism vindicated. So they are reaching for any stick they can find with which to beat proposals for increased government spending." 

As usual, the Republican game is played by distorting statistics.  Among them, the argument that tax cuts are more effective than government spending (not true, historically). 

... Write off anyone who asserts that it’s always better to cut taxes than to increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their money. Here’s how to think about this argument: it implies that we should shut down the air traffic control system. After all, that system is paid for with fees on air tickets — and surely it would be better to let the flying public keep its money rather than hand it over to government bureaucrats. If that would mean lots of midair collisions, hey, stuff happens.

Of course, there's always the argument that eight years of Bush brought us all this stuff happening. And finally, people aren't paying all that  much attention to Republicans anymore.