The “RealClearPolitics” sweep of April 16 political news carries Brent Bozell of “Townhall”’s posting, of the same date, decrying Newsweek’s Holy Week pronouncement that America is in a “post-Christian” era. Bozell counters that the real story is Newsweek’s own decline as a mass media publication. I took a similar approach, and made the same point last week, on April 10.
The same “RealClearPolitics” sweep picked up Atlantic’s Ross Douthat commentary on yesterday’s nationwide tea party protests against raising taxes [picture]. Douthat’s article in turn links to one by ex-Clinton White House official Matt Miller that flatly says Obama and his advisors plan broad tax increases, “presumably in a second term.” According to Miller, “The math simply doesn’t work at current levels of taxation. . . But the one hard truth Barack Obama won’t utter is that all Americans will have to pay higher taxes before long.”
A day earlier, Canadian journalist John Ibbitson made the same point, writing “tax hikes are coming.” But in this blog, nearly three weeks before Miller or Ibbitson, I said on March 27 Obama is “just holding back part of the truth. . . We need higher taxes.”
On two separate issues, you saw it first here.
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