Good Faith and the Defrost Diva
Merits match melts Malkin.
Yesterday, health care wonk Ezra Klein issued a challenge.
Let’s have a good faith argument. I will debate Michelle Malkin anytime, anywhere, in any forum (save HotAir TV, which she controls), on the particulars of S-CHIP. We can set the debate at a think tank, on BloggingHeads, over IM. Hell, we can set up the podiums in the shrubbery outside my house, since that seems to be the sort of venue she naturally seeks out. And then if Malkin wants an argument, she can have one. We’ll talk S-CHIP and nothing but — nothing of the Frosts, or Congress, or her blog.
This seemed like exactly what Malkin was asking for. She keeps alleging that “leftists” refuse to debate the issue of SCHIP, instead choosing to hide behind children rather than defend their arguments. Here was a chance for her to have some face time with someone well versed on the subject.
Naturally, the Defrost Diva melted.
“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.
Yes, can’t be having these petty “debates” distracting us from the far more important issue of slandering and destroying a family already struggling to make ends meet who were lucky enough to have been eligible for help from the government when a life altering event could have easily forced them into true destitution.
Now if you’ll excuse her, Ms. Malkin needs to go dig through her sources for the next installment of her investigative “reporting”.
(X-posted at The Xsociate Files)
Well, to be fair to Malkin, everything she does is pretty much a waste of time.
And, honestly, if someone’s going to debate Ezra on health care, I’d rather it be someone who actually knows a bit about health care policy. I’d like to see an interesting and informative debate, not one person giving policy ideas and talking about where the system is failing while the other one is making faces and screaming diatribes about “libruls” and “Yuropeans” at him. I mean, that might be entertaining for the first couple of questions, but after a while it would just start to sound like a GOP Presidential candidate debate.
Nony, the GOP debate only has the faces and the catch-phrases, poll-tested, for sure. They’ve got no Ezra there to provide any sort of smart dialogue.
i need to sell an acre of land in ok. taxes are due, and i have no money. have a broken wrist. i’d take 2k. ppl owe me abt 300, but they ain’t gonna pay me.
Why is the Democratic Party waiting on the government to provide affordable health care anyway? Why wait for Bush to sign something when the Democrats could just start their own health insurance program for the poor? They know what they want to do - they should just go ahead and do it already.