Even obama says the Bush tax cuts saved jobs
President Who Many Find Confused Insists Everyone Else Is Confused
ABC News gives us the latest comment from Obama that is likely to enrage his base, which is, let's face it, pretty easily enraged: "On a conference call with 'Organizing for America' supporters tonight, President Obama explained his compromise with Republicans over tax cuts, saying that the 'harm' the economy would suffer was 'too great' to be able to afford a fight. If the middle class tax cuts put in place last decade would have expired, 'that would have cost our economy nearly a million jobs,' Obama said. . . . The president admitted to supporters that right now there is a 'healthy' debate going on about the details of the compromise and used the call to defend his decisions to compromise yet again. 'I know that there's some folks who are angry about it,' he said. 'They are confused about the extensions on the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and there are policy and political objections. Some people are saying, Well, did we fight hard enough for our position? Did we position ourselves properly on this?'"
At Hot Air, Allahpundit recalls previous comments from Obama in this vein: "Good Lord. Is The One starting to direct some of the same condescending nonsense he aimed at voters during the campaign back at . . . his own base? This sounds a bit like his now infamous stump speech about people not thinking clearly in preferring the GOP. . . . Well, according to lefties, the 'best and smartest fight' would have been to let the cuts expire and then dare the new Republican House to hold out for across-the-board cuts while middle-class voters howled about their rates going up. In fact, watch the clip below and you'll see that Obama's counting on a version of that strategy to boost him in 2012. We are indeed going to have this debate again, and I can't wait to hear him explain how he's going to get a middle-class-only cut through a still-Republican House and an even more Republican Senate come 2013. Assuming he's still in the White House at the time, that is." |
