Remember the famous Obama pledge that he was not going to raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000 a year, a pledge repeated over and over and touted by the media as evidence of Obama’s compassion and concern for the middle class? Only the “rich,” as if those making over $250,000 are rich, would be hit, and, as that great patriot Joe Biden informed us, those people have a patriotic duty to pay the taxes. This, of course, suggests that the people appointed to Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions in the Obama administration, especially the Treasury Secretary, are not patriots.
Those not mesmerized by The One’s eloquence and intellectual brilliance pointed out that the cost of his programs compared to the scarcity of “rich,” as well as the history of such pledges, meant that tax increases would be coming for others. Even yours truly understood that basic truth. Yet anyone who dared to criticize Obama was a racist (during the campaign) and someone who just wanted Obama to fail (after the election).
Well, the predictable is happening. Functionaries like Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod are giving up the pretense, and even the press joins the ridicule.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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