Wednesday, January 19, 2005

High Ground of Language, continued: GOP mired in the swamp of "privatization?"

For those who just can't get enough of the Bush Administration's "Who's On First" crosstalk about whether a plan to replace Social Security with private retirement accounts should properly be called "privatization:"

Talking Points Memo does the homework, showing some of the GOP working hard to distance themselves from that awful word--just from the word, which had the poor taste to focus group badly, of course, not from the idea of eliminating Social Security in favor of a private retirement scheme. The result, as TPM notes, doesn't look terribly honest.

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