Read My Lips...

Joe the Plumber: "Your new tax plan's going to tax me more, isn't it?"

Nonsense, replied the candidate: "From 250 [thousand dollars a year] down, your taxes are going to stay the same."

Indeed, he insisted, 95 percent of "working people" would see their taxes go down in his administration.

To steal a line from Sarah Palin…”How’s that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya?” Since 2008, I and millions of others said there was no way he could get away with paying for all his grandiose plans by just soaking the “rich”…EVERYONE gets the shaft in a liberal administration.

It certainly was not totally unpredictable but going back on the one thing that allowed him to escape the usual "tax and spend liberal" tag in 2008 is I believe politically perilous. The American people are quite adept at remembering when you talk out of both sides of your mouth, especially when it comes to their paycheck.

Michelle Malkin: "Well, he broke his no-middle-class-tax-hike pledge more than a year ago with the passage of the massive S-CHIP expansion funded with regressive skyrocketing tobacco tax increases. But never mind the pesky little details. President Obama now wants you to know he's 'agnostic' on breaking that pledge (again). This time, he'll just blame it on the sham deficit commission he wants to set up as fall guys. . . . Read Obama's lips: Don't believe anything that passes his lips."

Jen Rubin: "It is rather typical of him. We have come to expect a lack of policy definition, an unwillingness to make hard choices (you really do have to be for or against letting tax rates rise -- it's not a 'false' choice), a cluelessness regarding the economic impact of his policies or the uncertainty they are generating, and a conceited self-portrait as a president unbound by ideology. He wants to know what works? He should look at the revenue generated by the Reagan and Bush tax cuts. He wants to know what would work to cut the deficit? Cancel the spending increases and roll back expenditures to 2007 levels. It is not that hard -- unless you find choosing, governing, and leading hard. And then the Hamlet-routine and the seeming indifference to fundamental policy decisions makes him appear craven and irresolute. You can sympathize with the Democrats. He is the captain of their ship, the party's leader, and his best answer is 'I don't know'? The Clintons must be kicking themselves and shouting into pillows. This is the guy they lost to? Yup."

Clifton B at Another Black Conservative: "'Agnostic' is a sly way of saying he is open minded to raising taxes on those Hope Dopes making less than $250k. Anyone with half a brain who has been keeping track of the spending and spending proposals would know there simply isn't enough money in the $250k+ crowd to pay for everything."

Thanks go out to NRO's Morning Jolt Newsletter. Always a great resource for information on other blogs and posts.