BrendanNyhan Latest Gallup generic poll showing Republicans up by seven points likely to exaggerate GOP advantage http://j.mp/cM8W77- BrendanNyhan Updated post to cover Beck saying FDA examination of Avastin is a "death panel" http://j.mp/aeoviM Not true and not same as what Palin saidContinuing efforts to justify false "death panels" claim - Brendan Nyhan One of the most frustrating aspects of the current debate over the health care reform is the way that conservative bloggers and pundits keep trying to find evidence to justify Sarah Palin's false claims about a "death panel." The latest...
- BrendanNyhan Portraying Obama opponents as people who disagree on terror and those who want white/Christian USA is unfair & reductive http://j.mp/cYCbRU
- BrendanNyhan Dear authors: Books claiming permanent Dem/GOP rule is here don't tend to work out http://j.mp/9YFC1F Editors: Pls read some poli sci!Weigel : A Publishing Schedule is a Harsh Mistress Hitting your bookshelf (or Kindle or Nook or iPad) on September, it's one of 2010's most awkwardly timed books : I point this out not to hassle the author, Dylan Loewe, whom I know and whose book party I am now probably banned from. The book is blurbed
- BrendanNyhan Why WH is stuck on econ.: "An initial stimulus that is insufficiently large risks creating... 3 kinds of political trap" http://j.mp/aafcUL
- BrendanNyhan Noooo! Brownstein hints at renewed 3rd party pres. cand. hype, though he notes "practical barriers... remain substantial" http://j.mp/c74jAA
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August 18, 2010
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Obama's stimulus wasn't large enough
says Lane Kenworthy.
What a pathetic excuse! Stimulus doesn't work.
George Bush had already tried stimulus twice to cure this recession. It didn't work. FDR tried stimulus. That didn't work. Stimulus has seldom if ever worked to end a recession.
The politicans love "stimulus", because it's an excuse to give our money to their supporters. The rest of us know that we and our children will have to pay back the money being strewn about.
Note the lack of scientific falsifiability. Even after the failure of stimulus after stimulus, someone can always claim that a bigger stimulus would have worked. Meanwhile our bloated government has become a bigger and bigger burden on the private sector, causing permanent damage to our economy.
Kenworthy sounds like a doctor of old asserting that
The patient is getting worse because they haven't used enough leeches.
Posted by: David in Cal | August 18, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Brendan's main complaint against Glenn Beck seems to be that Beck is using the term "Death Panel" to mean government rationing. Despite the quibbling over Provenge and Avastin, Brendan knows that government health care will have limits, just as private health insurance does. If Brendan wanted to argue that the governmental limits will be no worse than the private ones, there could be a good debate. But, Brendan goes farther. He says it's impermissible to use the term Death Panel to describe governmental limits on care.
I think the term, although it's provocative, is no worse than many other politically coined phrases. There will a governmental panel and it will make some life and death decisions. That is, it will limit the payment for some life-saving treatments that provide minimal benefit at enormous costs (something I approve of, BTW.)
Furthermore, who appointed the liberals Kings of the English language? If Glenn Beck wants to use the term Death Panel in a certain way, why should liberals have the power to deny him that right?
Posted by: David in Cal | August 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM
"If Glenn Beck wants to use the term Death Panel in a certain way, why should liberals have the power to deny him that right?"
LOL, how can anyone "deny" a person's right to say certain words AFTER THEY'VE ALREADY SAID THEM?!
Posted by: daniel rotter | August 21, 2010 at 06:26 AM