Australian deputy PM: 'Cranks and crazies' in GOP

Australian deputy PM: 'Cranks and crazies' in GOP threaten US economy

By NBC News wire services CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's deputy prime minister said Friday that the greatest threat to the U.S. economy are "cranks and crazies" in the Republican Party. Wayne Swan, who also serves as treasurer and is his center-left Labor Party government's ranking finance minister, took aim at the Tea Party during a speech to a business forum on Friday, breaking a convention among Australia's major parties to steer clear of U.S. domestic political debates. Swan, one of few world leaders able to boast his country had avoided recession during the global financial crisis, also labelled the Tea Party wing of the Republicans as "extreme." "Let's be blunt and acknowledge the biggest threat to the world's biggest economy are the cranks and crazies that have taken over the Republican Party," Swan said in a speech in Sydney.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14003404-australian-deputy-pm-cranks-and-crazies-in-gop-threaten-us-economy

The bottom line is, a credible world leader sees the US far right as being marginal, irrational, unreasonable, unproductive, and actually destructive. And the tea potty can't bray that is he a loser.

I see this as a perfect validation of this opinion. 

I consider the cranks and crazies those who thought it would be a good idea to back poor peoples housing loans with US government dollars. Do your research and then tell me who that was.
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