Today We Cross Over into Farce

One of candidate Obama's most visible (oft-repeated because the nation felt it in its bones that he would be a tax-hiker) campaign promises was that he would not raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 per annum. Of course this was a lie, but the lie needs a bit of transformation for it not to be seen as such a nakedly transparent lie. He laid the groundwork here. Now he's "agnostic" about those tax hikes. A promise central to his campaign...now he's agnostic. Lovely. This is the oldest trick in the book - how to renege on a no tax hike pledge - talk deficit. 'I didn't renege on my pledge, I was forced to deal with the deficit.' And what a deficit it is given the brazenly irresponsible budget Obama has just proposed. Of course there is a huge deficit, because he'll spend money like this nation has never seen, and now he can plausibly raise those taxes. However, in today's age where any person can read the federal budget online and the MSM can't control the message, nobody is fooled. If Obama was interested in keeping that pledge, his budget would have been vastly different, so his chin-stroking deficit concern is laughable.

Oh, and here is another corker...he's a "fierce advocate" of business. All but possibly twelve businessmen in the country are howling right now. The overwhelming opinion in the business community about the President ranges from disappointment to fear, from frustration to loathing. Maybe that is why businesses are hoarding cash. Businesses have been driven into the bunkers, and I've even had some businesspeople tell me they won't hire until after the Democrats (more accurately, these Democrats) take electoral losses.

...and then there is this.

On today's evidence, Obama seems to have gone from tragedy to farce.