Thursday, October 11, 2007

EZRA OFFERS A CHALLENGE, MALKIN DECLINES

Ezra Klein writes:

So c'mon Michelle: Let's debate health care. Prove to the world that you really want "a good-faith argument." We can talk crowd-out, and cross-subsidization, and whether lower-middle class entrepreneurs are able to procure health care on the individual market. If this is a policy argument you care so deeply about as to travel to the Frost family's house to see if they really deserved S-CHIP benefits, surely you'll want to set up a web cam and talk through the issue.

MALKIN responds:

“Debate” Ezra Klein? What a perverse distraction and a laughable waste of time that would be. And that’s what they really want, isn’t it? To distract and waste time so they can foist their agenda on the country unimpeded.

If I'm reading this correctly, Malkin seems to be saying that she won't debate Klein because she can't offer any effective counter-arguments.

It's kind of amusing that Malkin talks about distactions and wastes of time yet will blog about a missing lapel pin, a mild joke, and a sponsor of the Folsom Street Fair.

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