what point Matthew Yglesias thinks he’s making here. Rewrite my 4:48 post to read “Conservatives were successful in labeling Clinton and the Democrats as a tax hiker,” and my point would still stand. Whether conservatives were right to label them tax hikers is–I’m tempted to say “of course”–a separate question. I think they were, but I was only making a political point in response to JPod’s political point.