Tuesday, February 22, 2005
GOP's Privatization Strategy: Three-Card Monte With Words
Josh Marshall catches Norm Coleman playing what Krugman calls "three-card monte" in The Dumbest Senator Ever's efforts to follow the Approved Republican Privatizers' Playbook:
Remember, 'personal accounts' is the current Rove-and-Cato-and-Heritage-Approved euphemism for privatization.Leave it to a goof like Sen. Norm Coleman (R) of Minnesota not only to use the GOP 'privatization' playbook but to describe it on the record.
Explaining how he dealt with criticism that he supported privatization: "I countered it by being very clear that I supported personal accounts and opposed privatization."
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