TPMDC Sunday Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... Appearing on This Week, Senior White House David Axelrod did not rule out the idea of President Obama raising taxes on people making under $250,000 -- which Obama pledged not to do during the 2008 campaign -- in order to fund health care. "One of the problems we've had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking to each other. And you don't get anything done," said Axelrod. "That's not the way the president approaches us. He is very cognizant of protecting people -- middle class people, hard-working people who are trying to get along in a ...

Surprise: Axelrod refuses to rule out tax hike to pay for ObamaCare
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... already shattered The One’s pledge not to raise taxes on people who makes less than $250,000. Now that they’re in for a penny, they might as well be in for a pound : I pressed Axelrod on whether Obama will draw a line in the sand and veto any bill that funds health care reform with tax hikes for people making under $250,000 a year — a pledge Barack Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign.“One of the problems we’ve had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking to each other. And you don’t get anything done. That’s not the way the ...

Obama’s middle-class tax pledge headed under the bus
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... campaign promise that he would not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000. Under persistent questioning from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod declined to restate the vow and left open the possibility that the president might sign health care reform legislation that taxes high-cost, employer-provided insurance plans which some middle-class families currently receive tax free. ABC “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos: I pressed Axelrod on ...

Shocker: Obama Administration Won’t Rule Out Tax Hikes To Pay For Government Health Care
Say Anything — ... Remember when Obama said that Americans making less than $250,000/year wouldn’t pay a single dime more in federal taxes?  Well not only does Obama plan on making your lives more expensive with a cap and trade tax, but it his administration isn’t ruling out tax hikes for people making less than $250,000/year to pay for health care. ...

Administration Weighing New Middle Class Tax Increase
James Richardson's Skepticians — Top White House aide David Axelrod told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos today that the administration intends to explore a number of means by which it can overhaul the nation’s health care system, but refused to reaffirm then-candidate Barack Obama’s “firm pledge” to not raise taxes on middle class Americans. “The president had said in the past that he does not believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here,” said Axelrod. “He still believes that, but there are a number of formulations and we’ll wait and see.” Obama has not always been ...

Administration Weighing New Middle Class Tax Increase
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Top White House aide David Axelrod told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos today that the administration intends to explore a number of means by which it can overhaul the nation’s health care system, but refused to reaffirm then-candidate Barack Obama’s “firm pledge” to not raise taxes on middle class Americans. ...

HMM: AXELROD: OBAMA WON’T RULE OUT MIDDLE-CLASS TAX HIKE. That’s funny. I thought he already had…
Instapundit — HMM: AXELROD: OBAMA WON’T RULE OUT MIDDLE-CLASS TAX HIKE. That’s funny. I thought he already had. Guess that one’s hit its expiration date . . . . ...

An interpretive question for Obama voters
TigerHawk — Hey, all you middle income Obama voters out there, I've got a little parsing exercise for you. Reconcile this... ... with this : White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike. Apparently I'm ...

links for 2009-06-28
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: global_warming) Shocker: Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike for Obamacare White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class ...

Links for 2009-06-28 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution. After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed President Manuel Zelaya said he had been kidnapped by soldiers in a "coup". Mr Zelaya, elected for a non-renewable four-year term in January 2006, wanted a vote to extend his time in office. His arrest came just before the start of a referendum ruled illegal by the Supreme Court and opposed by Congress. Shocker: Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike for Obamacare White House ...

The "Expiration Date" on Political Promises
Stones Cry Out — ... Remember when candidate Barak Obama said that he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year?  That promise may not last 6 months into President Obama’s tenure.  George Stephanopoulos reports: ...

Democrats Have No Endgame
Wizbang — ... and evidence has been out there for weeks that President Obama is walking back his pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class. The mirage of green shoots of economic recovery is apparently sedating the Washington/New York pundit class into a stupor just as deep as the one they fell into last year during the election. The dumbfounding aspect of the national discussion on Obama/Pelosi/Reid economic policy is that no one is demanding to know what their endgame is. A recipe of higher taxes, historic spending and massive federal borrowing will deliver economic collapse and ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — As Congress tackles President Barack Obama's top two domestic priorities -- climate change and health care -- he faces some of his most serious challenges from fellow Democrats. Uh oh: Looks like somebody just read the cap-and-trade bill... "The president had said in the past that he doesn't believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here. He still believes that," Axelrod told me on This Week, "But there are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see." Honduras Congress ...

Read Obama’s Lips - No New Taxes!
Just Politics..? Daily Feed — ... Why do I bring this up and make this comparison?  Only because it looks like President Obama is set to break yet another campaign promise (and not something minor like turning the thermostat up from 68 degrees, either): ...

Obama Will Raise Taxes on Everyone, and the Sun will Rise Tomorrow
Right Wing News — ... . Now, as expected, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health care reform bill that includes a tax hike on people making less than $250,000 a year . Oh really?! They just realized that attempting to pay for medical care for 100% of all Americans would require a tax hike on more than 5% of the population. One would think that journalists would have done some investigating one year ago; I guess it is too much to ask? To make matters worse, if the Cap & Trade bill gets signed into law (it already passed the House of Representatives), it ...

Democrats: You're Stupid, So We're Going to Blame Bush
Ace of Spades HQ — ... . Candidate Obama may have promised that your taxes wouldn't go up, but remember that every Obama promise comes with an expiration date .

Democrats: You're Stupid, So We're Going to Blame Bush
Slublog — ... . Candidate Obama may have promised that your taxes wouldn't go up, but remember that every Obama promise comes with an expiration date. ...

Democrats: You’re Stupid, So We’re Going to Blame Bush
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . Candidate Obama may have promised that your taxes wouldn’t go up, but remember that every Obama promise comes with an expiration date . Cross-posted at ...