According to Fox News on-line, House democrat leader Nancy Pelosi -of all people- “just pulled her caucus well to the right of President Obama, as she dramatically broadened the scope of her proposal for extending the Bush-era tax cuts.”
Fox says “The White House, since Obama took office, has called for those tax rates to be extended only for households making less than $250,000 a year. The president wants the rates to expire for everybody else.” However, in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Pelosi upped that threshold to $1 million, urging Boehner to schedule a vote "as early as next week" to extend the "middle-income tax cuts" which she apparently is defining as those affecting households that make less than $1 million.
I mention this today because, although I still think Pelosi’s one of the dumbest people on earth, she’s been a politician long enough to learn what needs to be done to survive in office. She’s also one of the most consistent party hacks there is and I doubt there’s much she wouldn’t do to promote her party line -up to and including vehemently touting the abominable health care bill she loved, though never even bothering to read it. Therefore, if she’s bucking her chief, she obviously senses he’s cooked and thus, won’t be around to get even after November. And I don’t think one could find a better predictor than that.
Along the same lines, but much a more subtle indication, Daniel Halper of the weeklystandard.com writes that the president’s campaign announced he’d headline a reception for 700 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center yesterday. General admission tickets started at $500 apiece, though a selected number of Gen44 and Grassroots tickets were available for $250. However, the campaign now says that only 550 people showed up.
Along the same lines, but much a more subtle indication, Daniel Halper of the weeklystandard.com writes that the president’s campaign announced he’d headline a reception for 700 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center yesterday. General admission tickets started at $500 apiece, though a selected number of Gen44 and Grassroots tickets were available for $250. However, the campaign now says that only 550 people showed up.
So here we have two more indications of a presidential campaign that seems to be bleeding a little more each day although the election’s still six months away. Because despite that things haven’t even begun to heat up, the White House is already slinging as much mud as they can find. Meanwhile, the opposition hasn’t even really started to get nasty. Consequently, my guess is that by the time things truly count in the future, there isn’t going to be much of the POTUS left for Mitt Romney to go after. And to prove my point, you can go ask Nancy Pelosi, but I suspect we already know what she thinks.
That’s it for today folks.
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