wow. this is really a new, orwellian low. privatization = DEREGULATION. wait, isn't de-regulation bad?

none of what mccain is saying happened. none. the reason the "social security reform" didn't go through was because the "democrats insisted in raising taxes?

my god.

when all else fails, just keep repeating the phrase that democrats raise taxes. over and over again like hot chip blasting from a broken record player.

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krugman:

"Social Security: we have always been at war with Eastasia

Maybe the fact that John McCain is peddling a completely false version of the great 2005 debate over Social Security doesn’t mean much if you weren’t involved in that debate. But I was, and it’s just bizarre.

One point Josh Marshall doesn’t emphasize is the relentless dishonesty with which the Bush administration made its case. It claimed, falsely, that the system faced an imminent crisis; that privatization offered something for nothing; that Social Security is bad for African-Americans; that each year privatization is delayed costs $600 billion; and on and on.

But even in the middle of all that, it never occurred to me that a future presidential candidate would invent out of thin air a completely false story about how the privatization push failed."

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i know politics is bullshit but the hypocrisy of mccain is scary. terrifying really.