Predictable: CNN Credits Obama For The Bush Tax Cuts

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Predictable: CNN Credits Obama For The Bush Tax Cuts: "This political cartoon pretty much says it all:

I have mentioned several times here (Obama the conservative: Higher taxes will hurt the economy, risk double-dip recession) that there are no tax cuts in this bill. The compromise was to keep the tax rates unchanged. Unchanged. As in nothing is going to happen one way or the other. But the suck-up media is painting a different narrative:Video: Chris Matthews On Keeping Tax Rates Unchanged: 'A Lot Of Stimulus'. How does one stimulate anything by doing nothing? From Don Surber via Instapundit: 'What planet is CNN from?' I f I don't miss my guess, Metaluna. But anyway, from CNN, check out this bizzaro world logic:

Most Americans like the new tax cut law that President Barack Obama signed into law on Friday, according to a new national poll.

And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that while the tax cut compromise the president struck with congressional Republicans didn’t spark Obama’s overall approval rating, it may have given him a boost as “Triangulator in Chief.”

Forty-eight percent of people questioned in the poll say they approve of the job Obama’s doing in the White House, with an equal amount saying they disapprove of how he’s handling his duties.

“The president’s approval rating is exactly where it was in mid-November before he brokered the tax cut compromise that angered some liberals and conservatives alike,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “But while he has lost some ground with liberals, he has gained support among moderates. That’s important if Obama plans to borrow a page from former President Bill Clinton’s playbook and try to win re-election by ‘triangulating’ between the leaders of both parties on the Hill.”

Not mentioned are the scores of Democrats that blamed the lower Bush tax rates for every problem under the Sun for the better part of the last decade including the lackeys at CNN. And now it's a good thing and Obama is a hero? Good grief.

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