Change We Can Believe In? Oops... I Mean, Tax the Rich

Obama's budget address yesterday already has the usual suspects chirping with hope. One would think that none would believe a word out of this guy's mouth, after the betrayal of his promises on shutting down the Guantanamo torture camp and promoting labor rights, after his shifting the multi-trillion dollar debt onto the backs of the working class and then insisting that public worker unions, public worker pensions, and programs for seniors, disabled and the poor are responsible for the economic downturn, and after his dangerous embrace of war (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, ...) and insistence on the need to expand nuclear power even in the face of the ongoing and mounting crisis in Japan. But hope floats, and so Candiate "Change We Can Believe In" is reborn as President "Tax the Rich". Never mind that he has extended Bush's tax breaks for the rich while clamping an austerity straitjacket on the rest of us. We once more hear "MoveOn", the labor bureaucrats, and the liberal wing of the media (see Rachel Maddow's glowing reviews) singing the praises of the hypocrite-in-chief.

Someone really ought to dissect Obama's speech line by line and publish an annotated version. Maybe I will.