Posted by
Bill Crawford on Friday, April 03, 2009 2:45:56 PM
To my readers who seem to be tracking this stuff from California, Nevada, Florida, Maine and other places (ain't the internet a wonderful thing?), I apologize for coming back to the daily political snapshots, but the degree and speed with which this President seems to want to turn the American supertanker in the water is nothing short of astonishing.
Obama needs money to fund all the things he wants to do, and if he has smart people working for him that can do remedial math, he must know that taxing the rich is not going to get him what he needs. Not only aren't there enough of them, but most of them have the skills and resources for effective tax abatement.
Obama the candidate was clear as a bell in some of the lines he drew on the campaign trail on this. "95% of all American taxpayers will see a tax reduction" was one. When he was cornered on whether he was simply referring to income taxes, he named a whole host of taxes and said that these Americans would not see their taxes raised by him, "not one thin dime" was the tag line.
Obama's people beat me to death with this one last year. There was no question.
Until now, I guess. Now if you buy tobacco, as of this week, you pay more, no matter what your income is. Will Obama get tagged for the inconsistency? George Bush, Sr. certainly did in 1990 after doing the U-turn on "read my lips...". It was the main cause of his lack luster GOP support two years later.
Obama's people don't give a rip. They are moral relativists, and they only use consistency as a bludgeon for detractors.
So the question reverts to, what would it take for Democrats to turn on this guy? Clinton answered that a long time ago: they never will. It is a deeper issue- at once generational and cultural.
So the answer is, so what if he is a liar? Marxism taught us that lying for a good cause is a constructive thing, right?