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5/13/2010

Obama’s Tax Pledge Preference

Filed under: Obama — DRJ @ 1:16 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Hot Air notes another Obama campaign pledge has gone under the bus:

Great news: Obama “firm pledge” on taxes now a “preference”

Peter Orszag delivered the change in nomenclature on Barack Obama’s tax policy to a group of reporters at a Thomson Reuters breakfast yesterday, and the Daily Beast’s LLoyd Grove couldn’t quite believe his ears. He pressed the OMB Director for clarification, and got more obfuscation instead (via Instapundit):

Remember President Obama’s supposedly inviolable pledge—repeatedly uttered during the 2008 campaign and at countless town meetings since the inauguration—that he would never raise taxes on middle-class citizens who earn $250,000 a year or less?

This morning at a Manhattan breakfast sponsored by Thomson Reuters, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag threw that pledge out the window. Instead, he described Obama’s “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge as a “stance” and a “preference” that is subject to study by the president’s newly formed bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility.

“The president has been very clear about what he prefers,” Orszag said under questioning from Thomson Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland. “That was his stance during the campaign, and he still believes that’s the right course forward. But he has also been very clear that we shall let the commission go do its work.”

The pool of people who will benefit from Obama’s policies, as opposed to his promises, is getting smaller and smaller.

H/T S.

— DRJ

8 Responses to “Obama’s Tax Pledge Preference”

  1. We are reminded, once again, that our president is a lying sack of shit.

    MikeD (c83900)

  2. Once in office, Obama has reversed nearly every single policy position, proposed action, or campaign promise. And not peripheral positions, but positions he himself claimed were important, key policy positions like the war on terrorism, economic policy, DADT, etc.

    So the question is: Was he as supremely incompetent and naive as we argued, or Was he merely a dishonest fraud?

    There does not seem to be any alternatives.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  3. This is the “oh shit! we’re spending & spending & spending, but where’s the money gonna come from?” reaction.

    [note: released from moderation. –Stashiu]

    Icy Texan (1cd8c3)

  4. And, the Answer IS…..

    Y E S !

    AD - RtR/OS! (2aae98)

  5. Liar, liar, pants on fire. But will anyone in the MSM care to notice it?

    Dmac (21311c)

  6. If (IF only!) Obama had any stones he would announce that he has regretfully accepted the resignation of Peter Orszag, and then renew his campaign pledge.

    If

    Icy Texan (1cd8c3)

  7. #2, #4 — Yes, the answer is “Both”.

    htom (412a17)

  8. > But he has also been very clear that we shall let the commission go do its work.”

    There’s where the attempted smoke-and-mirrors on this bait-and-switch is going to come from —

    “I didn’t want to raise your taxes, but they told me I had to…!”

    I want my OTP!

    Are y’all down with OTP?

    IgotBupkis (79d71d)


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