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NationalJournal.com - Obama: It's Kids Versus Corporate Jets on Debt-Ceiling Talks - Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Kids versus corporate jets.
If President Obama's news conference accomplished anything on Wednesday afternoon, it underscored, in striking tones, his strategy for winning the debt ceiling fight with Republicans: Make it a clash of classes.
Rich versus Poor.
Us versus Them.
Those who support children, food safety, medical research and, presumably, puppies and apple pie versus the rich fat cats who don't.
In Obama's world, Democrats are for kids and Republicans are for corporate jets. That is a sharp distinction that could help put the GOP on defensive, but it may not be enough to persuade Republicans to change their posture on the debt-ceiling talks
It would be nice to believe that spending cuts in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year could be made painlessly. It would be even nicer if it could happen. But anyone can tell you that you'll only cut SO much fat (as in waste, fraud, abuse, office furniture spending, along with ending programs that investigate the life cycle of mosquitoes, as an example BEFORE you have to cut into programs that make real differences in people's lives). That's especially true if one puts the tax code (and ALL it's loopholes) off limits to any changes. (Come on, you just KNOW that wealthy corporatations didn't give ALL those campaign contributions just to end up having to be treated just like everyone else).