I Can Name That Lie in Two Letters
We try to catalog all the lies told by the Obama administration, but it’s hard to keep up. Anyway, who sits down with a copy of Webster’s Unabridged and reads straight through?
You’ll find this one under T for “Taxed Till you Tell Them everyThing They wanT To know”:
I pressed Axelrod on whether Obama will draw a line in the sand and veto any bill that funds health care reform with tax hikes for people making under $250,000 a year — a pledge Barack Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“One of the problems we’ve had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking to each other. And you don’t get anything done. That’s not the way the president approaches us. He is very cognizant of protecting people — middle class people, hard-working people who are trying to get along in a very difficult economy. And he will continue to represent them in these talks,” Axelrod said.
“But they’re also dealing with punishing health care costs, and that’s something that we have to deal with.”
Tax increases… where have I heard that before?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s begin with that vote Friday night in the House, this vote on climate change legislation, very close, 219 to 212. Democrats say it’s a major step forward for energy independence, to create green jobs, to control global warming.
But you know the Republicans are saying it’s going to cost Americans jobs, going to send jobs overseas. And most important, they say it is a huge tax. And on that they have some backup from one of the president’s supporters, Warren Buffett.
Take a look.
WARREN BUFFETT, CEO, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY: I think if you get into the way it was written, it’s a huge tax and there’s no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax. So it — and it’s a fairly regressive tax.
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AXELROD: Well, you know, it’s interesting. We’re trying to solve a problem that has languished for a decade, the problem of energy that has bedeviled us for a long time. And they’re talking about how they can use it as an issue inaction as somehow a strategy. And that’s not a strategy.
As for the tax issue, you know, I have a high regard for Warren Buffett, and the president does as well. I think the Congressional Budget Office addressed this issue, and their conclusion was the way the bill was written, the impact on the average American will be negligible over time.
And I think it was written for…
STEPHANOPOULOS: About $150 a year.
We are on such a radical left-wing bender, I’m not sure we’ll ever recover. They say the first step to recovery is hitting bottom and recognizing one’s powerlessness over addiction. I don’t see Obama getting there, but the American people—fools and imbeciles they be—are beginning to feel the powerlessness.