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posted at 5:21 pm on June 28, 2012 by Allahpundit
Says Amanda Carpenter, If Obamacare was presented as a tax, it would have never passed. Certainly true; the White House itself was careful to dismiss that argument in its talking points on O-Care in order to make Blue Dog Dems more comfortable with the bill. And yet here we are. By the numbers: 26 million people, 70-75 percent of whom make less than $200,000 a year, are now on the hook for a fat new tax thanks to a guy who swore hed avoid new taxes on the middle class. Be sure to tell an undecided centrist friend before November.
If it makes you feel better, The One did have to endure 200-300 seconds of despair this morning.
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Video: Working-class hero celebrates legality of gigantic regressive new “tax” « Hot Air
SNIP:
posted at 5:21 pm on June 28, 2012 by Allahpundit
Says Amanda Carpenter, If Obamacare was presented as a tax, it would have never passed. Certainly true; the White House itself was careful to dismiss that argument in its talking points on O-Care in order to make Blue Dog Dems more comfortable with the bill. And yet here we are. By the numbers: 26 million people, 70-75 percent of whom make less than $200,000 a year, are now on the hook for a fat new tax thanks to a guy who swore hed avoid new taxes on the middle class. Be sure to tell an undecided centrist friend before November.
If it makes you feel better, The One did have to endure 200-300 seconds of despair this morning.
Standing with White House chief of staff Jack Lew and looking at a television in the Outer Oval featuring a split screen of four different networks, the president saw graphics on the screens of the first two cable news networks to break the news CNN and Fox News Channel announcing, wrongly, that he had lost.
Senior administration officials say the president was calm.
A couple minutes later, White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler came to Outer Oval and gave him two thumbs-up. Ruemmler had gotten the correct information from a White House lawyer at the Supreme Court and from SCOTUSblog.com.
the rest here.
Video: Working-class hero celebrates legality of gigantic regressive new “tax” « Hot Air