A friend of mine sent this to me today. Interesting take.
Talking about taxes allows the president to remind the public about the prosperity of the Clinton years, which was accompanied by a 10-percent surcharge on incomes over $250,000. He could even note that the 1993 budget act, which introduced those high rates the public likes so much, passed without a single Republican vote.
Hence the mystery. Every time Republicans offer President Obama the fight he claims to be spoiling for, he walks away from it. His policy is a strange combination of demagogy and inaction. Maybe the president knows something the rest of us do not.
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/18/136422578 ... s-all-talk
