President Barack Obama's deficit-reduction committee will consider all options to reduce the government's ballooning deficit, including cutting spending in areas currently protected by the administration's formal budget proposal, or raising taxes for those earning less than $250,000, Peter Orszag, director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, told CNBC Thursday.
"What the president was very clear about first was that [raising taxes] was not what we proposed, but that we have to let this commission do its work, and that everything's on the table," Orszag said. "All options need to be examined."
GOP is going to have a field day with that. Jesus hell. Orszag, it's a goddamn election year. Are you serious? You're floating raising taxes in an election year? Are you high? Even from an economic standpoint, raising taxes in a recession? Are you high?
Jesus wept.
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This is the pattern with every WH initiative: they claim "every option's on the table" and cause a flurry of oh noes throughout the liberal 'sphere only to walk it back through nuances later. Mixed signals ARE a strategy.
It's a strategy that doesn't solely benefit the Dems however.
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