Gotcha

I know everyone else has commented on this too, but it's just too good for me to let it go by unmentioned here. Last night, Paul Krugman posted his latest find in the current issue of an actuarial magazine. It's an article by John McCain in which McCain is quoted as follows:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

It ought to be pretty hard to worm out of that one, but I'm sure McCain will try to find a way. Perhaps he'll claim that this was a different John McCain ... uh, maybe that doesn't work too well given how many different John McCains we have seen already.

Given that this was published in the September/October issue of the journal, it would be a little difficult to say this was what he used to believe long ago but has now changed his mind. After all, it isn't even October yet.


Ah, perhaps he'll claim they mis-quoted him. That should certainly work.