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Yesterday I had posted another shot in the little blog-war I've gotten into with Peter Ferrara and Tom Giovenetti concerning their false claims that the Bush administration is actively seeking a tax hike as part of a Social Security reform compromise. After posting it, I took it down because I thought better of the snarky tone I'd taken in it -- and I realized that I was only feeding Ferrara and Giovenetti's PR machine by keeping their fantasies alive in the blogosphere. Shortly after that I got several nasty emails from Giovenetti (which my respect for his privacy prevents me from reproducing here) taunting me for having taken down the post. Well, no good deed goes unpunished when you're dealing with unscrupulous people. Now Giovenetti has even blogged about it, publicly crowing about the fact that I took the post down, trying to create some kind of support for his campaign of deception even from that trivial factoid. What's that old line about getting into a mud-fight with a pig? The problem is that the pig likes it. So for the moment I'll just wait for history to prove Giovenetti to have been a fool. He can keep his PR echo-chamber operating, citing media that quote him and his cronies as "proof" of his absurd speculations, and I'll continue to provide quality expert analysis of the realities of the Social Security reform challenge. To each his own.

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