President Obama is scheduled to address the press in the East Room of the White House just before noon ET to renew his call for extending the Bush tax cuts for anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
Nothing is going to happen on this until after the election, but this sets the stage for the election to actually decide this issue. Want a mandate? Run on the thing you want a mandate to do. By thrusting the tax issue into the center of the presidential campaign, Obama is doing just that.
If you’re an anti-tax Republican, that’s not a bad thing either. If Obama loses, you’ve staked a claim to a mandate on the issue, too. Yeah, the mandate could get muddied if Obama wins and Democrats lose the Senate, or other conflicting outcomes. But this is what elections should be about. By November, the parties will have spent much of the last two years jockeying and debating the Bush tax cuts, to what is basically a standoff. So let the voters decide.
Game on.
We all know about spam. For most of us, it’s a matter of email. But if you run a website there’s the dreaded scourge of ‘comment spam’. You’ve seen it. People who go into comments and post totally off-topic comments with links to this or that commercial site. “So, hey, you’re talking about health care reform and mandates, but check out the great Refi i just got at scamrefi.com!!!”
Clearly, the folks who do this for a living are shameless and awful. But this morning I learned they’re striving for even greater levels of shamelessness and actually achieving it. Read More
This weekend Team Romney held a round of big dollar fundraisers out in the Hamptons, where New York’s rich and super-rich spend their weekends and summers. And if the word went out not to conform to stereotype, well … apparently no one got the word.
A bunch of rich stories have been filed so far. Here’s a gem from the LAT’s Maeve Reston, who was apparently chatting up attendees as they drove their cars up to the manse … Read More
Pennsylvania GOP gets back in the electoral game by taking the vote away from almost a million of the state’s citizens.
This is called going out with a bang. On the other hand, a Rep. who announces his resignation with a Dylan quote must be doing something right.
PS. This one’s really kind of a must-read.
From the folks who brought you the White House press heckler, this is the Daily Caller tweet announcing the news that the diner owner who served who served President Obama breakfast this morning died later this afternoon …
President Obama might have lost a vote in Ohio today – thedc.com/NJpNT9
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 6, 2012
Evan McMorris-Santoro reports from today’s Obama rally in Pittsburgh.
Obama going straight for the jugular on health care reform: “The guy I’m running against tried this in Massachusetts and it’s working just fine, even though he denies it.”