"Obama's decision to place one big issue squarely in ... the 2012 campaign is looking smarter and smarter -- taxing the richest Americans. ... Obama has from 68 to 81 percent of the public on his side in this upcoming fight."
Chris, didn't Obama have roughly the same support last year before letting cuts for the richest expire? Then his spine disintegra
ted and he even gave away inheritanc
e tax amnesty while extending those cuts.
While it is surely true that it's a great campaign move for Obama to pretend that he thinks this is good policy, he had plenty of opportunit
y to implement the policy in his first 2 years - and in a way that avoids filibuster
. He chose to not fix the problem. So instead of increasing income tax revenue for the next two years, we pipe the people who need heating assistance (heck, heating oil is real cheap, right?!) and poor folks who rely on local block grants, among others.
That may also be a politicall
y shrewd strategy to help mobilize his supporters who will continue to blindly believe the false and fabricated impression that the President'
s back is against the wall and he's a helpless victim of 2+ years of republican abuse. But back in the real world, it doesn't make the actual abuse of the poor in order to motivate re-electio
n support any less disturbing
ly unconscion
able. And it doesn't make him the sort of person anyone should trust, either.
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