Do we really need proof the political right has run out of ideas? How about the Cato Institute’s jumping the shark?
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Oh, hell, they may have jumped it earlier — I don’t track Cato as a rule, because they come up with so much silly stuff.
This button, above, goes beyond simple ideological purification claims, though. It’s propaganda pure and simple, based on how they hope to scare people, and not based on even their own claims.
Worse, I suspect they know it. No plan puts the government in the health care biz. An accurate propaganda piece would have Uncle Sam in the insurance company’s garb. That might convince people to support the plan, though, I reckon, so Cato went for a scarier, less accurate version.
Cato Institute spokesman preparing for television interview on health care reform?
We’ll need to watch to see whether Ted McGinley joins the staff of policy analysts at Cato.
Gun the boat, be sure to clear the shark:
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Congress doesn’t pass 1500-page bills, or any bills, that take themselves OUT of something, do they? No. Of course the government is going to control it. In any case, it’s just a simple graphic. The ones of Bin Laden as Uncle Sam saying, “I want you to X” are just as absurd. And yes, they say libertarian — which makes their free market idea also liberal. I dunno. Seems you come down awful hard on them for simply stating their opinions, and then you admit in passing that you don’t pay attention to them much. Isn’t that the stated purpose of your little endeavor here?
However, loved your recent post backing up Fillmore on that news story in The Blade.
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To be fair, the Cato Institute is libertarian, which means they get along very well with liberals on fighting religious hegemony and on civil rights (short of affirmative action). On economic issues, though, I find them to be free-market extremists who pine for another Gilded Age.
I should think that if you don’t long for any more choice and control than most people have right now, a government-controlled system could hardly be scary.
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