This morning Obama unveiled a comprehensive package of reasonable and balanced measures to cut the debt by $3 trillion and reform America’s tax code, which is now so heavily rigged in favor of rich folks that a school teacher pays a higher tax rate than a billionaire investor like Warren Buffet.
Yet, true to form, the Republicans are already saying, no! They insist that it’s a prescription for “class warfare … socialism [and] killing jobs.” Never mind that they have no basis in fact for saying so, or that much of what Obama is proposing are measures they once supported as an article of Republican faith.
But disgruntled supporters who criticize Obama for continuing to seek common cause with Republicans in Congress should be advised that this is just the latest manifestation of his rope-a-dope strategy. Because he knows that at some point before elections next year, more than enough voters will come to realize that the Republicans’ strategy for governing the country is about as effective and responsible as Nancy Reagan’s strategy for fighting the war on drugs.
And let’s face it, everything the Republicans have been saying since day one of his presidency, and everything Obama is saying now, has everything to do with winning the 2012 elections.
Sad … but true.