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'Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar,' IllustratedWednesday, July 01, 2009'Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar,' Illustrated [Guy Benson] During President Obama's "townhall" event on healthcare reform today, the pesky subject of taxing employer-based benefits again reared its head. It's a policy proposal for which Obama savaged John McCain during the campaign. As Jim Geraghty reminds us in "Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar," Team Obama spent $44 million on more than a dozen ads specifically denouncing McCain's supposedly reckless idea in the fall. But now the White House — desperate for revenue — seems to be changing its tune: In early October [Obama] went even further, calling McCain’s plan “so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing, and so out of line with our basic values.” On Capitol Hill, however, Democrats have long liked the idea as a new form of tax revenue. Obama’s relentless denunciation of the proposal would seem to preclude his signing it into law, but “would seem to” is not “does.” Back in March, White House budget director Peter Orszag said taxing employer benefits was among several ideas that “most firmly should remain on the table,” and some congressional Democrats told the Washington Post that White House officials said Obama would accept such a tax “as long as he didn’t have to propose it himself.” Videos at: http://media.nationalreview.com/p...jMDg1MDlhMzMxNWI4ODdmZGQ5ZGQ0ODA= |