Matt Miller’s Long War On Social Security
By A journalist is running for Congress in California!
Matt Miller, the host of KCRW’s politics show “Left, Right, and Center,” announced this afternoon that he is running for the Congressional seat vacated by the retirement of Henry Waxman.
Well, there is precedent for this kind of thing:
At any rate, Miller has been making the “liberal [sic]” case for Social Security cuts for time out of mind. (Incidentally, I would like to reiterate that rarely has a public official been more overrated than Daniel Patrick Moynihan.) To celebrate the occasion, however, Miller has a slightly new twist on the “let’s massively cut Social Security while pretending that it’s not really a cut to revert people to a standard of living from decades before” racket. Everyone by now is familiar with the “lets discuss cuts to the single program called MedicareandSocialSecuruty” scam. Well, Miller’s new argument is that the governor of New York proposing cuts to Medicaid* proves the need for cuts to Social Security. He actually uses the phrase “Medicaid Industrial Complex” because if there’s anything we can agree on, it’s that health insurance for poor people is just far too generous. And how exactly do Mediciad cuts, proposed by a state government that has to balance its budget and very likely a horrible idea even so, make the case for cutting a program that is in solid shape at the federal level? I have no idea, because Miller can’t really be bothered to even try to connect the dots of his non-sequiturs.
There is one benefit of his running for Congress, though — at least the other column he consistently writes, “America needs a third party that will be based on everyone coming together and admitting that Matt Miller is right about everything,” will presumably be on hiatus until he loses the primary.
*Also, his claims about Cuomo’s Medicaid policies are not remotely accurate.