Short shorts of note (and one medium-long)

Now Obama says he'll "cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year"?

It used to be for those making less than $250,000 .

(Do I hear under $100K? Under $75K? Wait for it...)

Not only will those making under $150,000 or under $200,000 NOT get tax cuts, they'll get new taxes, under Obama.

"[T]his spring, [Citizens Consulting Inc., the umbrella group through which most of Acorn's money flows] was paid $832,000 by the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote efforts in key primary states. In filings with the Federal Election Commission, the Obama campaign listed the payments as 'staging, sound, lighting,' only correcting the filings after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review revealed their true nature."

"What this implies, undeniably, is that the United States would move away from running with the high GDP, high-growth nations rising today as economic and political powers and move over to retire with the low-growth economies we displaced -- old Europe.
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"Many voters -- progressive Democrats, the asset-safe rich, academics and college students -- regard this as where America should go. [To them], monies saved by stepping down from superpower status can be reprogrammed into "investments" (a favorite Obama word) in a vast Euro-style hammock of social protection programs."

from "The True Meaning of 'Historic Vote'; Shifting America's animating idea from creation to protection" by Daniel Henninger