I notice that the “Warren Buffet Tax” idea has brought the predictable screams of ‘class warfare’ from most of the sensible people in the village. This is not a thing to be feared. There is a moment in Batman Year One when Bruce Wayne realizes he needs an inside man to help him. After some thought he chooses Jim Gordon and one of the reasons is ‘all the right people hate him.’ Such is the reaction to the Warren Buffet tax ‘all the right people – Haplin, Brooks, Doughat, Ben Nelson, and Mark Penn among others all hate it. Any blog that posts anything about the plan draws swarms of screaming trolls declaring that the plan will mean the end of the economy and bring about the tyranny of the unwashed. All in all I think Obama has a winner here. Now if he can just keep his own overwhelming instincts to cave in control.
I’m not sure why Obama after two and a half years of pandering to the chattering beltway mob has suddenly decided that the sound of their squealing is sweet sweet music to his ears but I honestly don’t care. It may be simply election year pandering but okay – it won’t be the first time that worry about losing their phony baloney job has goaded an otherwise spineless politician into standing up for the right thing. I can only assume that Obama’s grim poll numbers had caused this resurgence of the Obama of 2008.
Will it translate into real legislation and maybe help some people who need it? Don’t think so, the GOP is all in on keeping the economy in shitty shape until next year and no new taxes on the rich folks. But it’s a start.
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