Thank goodness Joe Biden will be kept busy the next four years. He’s finally been given a role to play in the new administration.

As vice president, Joe Biden will oversee an Obama administration effort to find ways of building up the ranks of the middle class, that ambiguously defined segment of society most Americans identify with.

The task force will include four Cabinet members as well as other presidential advisers, the Obama transition team announced Sunday.

The goal is to recommend proposals to ensure the middle class is “no longer being left behind,” Biden said. The proposals could include executive orders and legislative plans. Read full story.

I wonder how they plan to expand the middle class? Bringing rich people down to our level and giving their money to poor people? If that’s the case, there won’t be a middle class. How utopian.

There’s been much speculation about the direction Barack Obama will go when he ascends to the Presidency. Some believe he may take the moderate route, a la Bill Clinton. Others believe he’ll take the liberal route, a la Jimmy Carter, while others fear he will try to quietly and incrementally pass leftist legislation with the aid and cover of the main stream media.

The way things are shaping up, it appears he may take the full throttle lefty route, possibly starting with nationalizing health care. According to the Wall Street Journal, the selection of Tom Daschle to head HHS, and last week’s release of a health care policy blue print by Senator Max Baucus, are strong signs that we’re headed toward a national health care plan. Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama campaign has been pushing hard for early voting. Why is that? Could it be that every day Obama, Biden and their surrogates leak a little more about what life will be like under an Obama administration?

Joe Biden warned us that our enemies in the world will test Barack Obama and Obama’s response will be wildly unpopular. He’s also lowered the bar for middle class, it was $250,000, then $200,000 and last week it was $150,000.

Bill Richardson just told us “What Obama wants to do is he is basically looking at $120,000 and under among those that are in the middle class, and there is a tax cut for those.” How low will it go?

Barack Obama has said he wants to spread the wealth around, but now he’s trying to lower expectations of the masses, since any idiot knows life will not improve for Americans under Barack Obama.

The most telling of all of the slip ups of Obama surrogates came from Rep. Marcy Kaptur (watch video) when she introduced Senator Obama at a campaign rally. She said we will have a second Bill of Rights. For this gang the first Bill of Rights wasn’t good enough. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not even inauguration day and already the definition of middle class is changing for the Obama campaign. Here’s Joe Biden defining the middle class as anyone making under $150,000 per year. What will they do when they can’t raise enough revenue to pay for all of their promises? They’ll re-define rich. Next it will be $100,000, then $50,000. Where will it end? Anyone who is employed?

As Obama rises in the polls, the Stock Market dives even deeper. Can anyone blame investors for wanting to pull their money out of America when they’re being promised higher taxes? The Democrats, whose very policies send companies and jobs overseas, have the gall to run on a platform of creating jobs.

The New York Post recently reported on An Obama Panic.

Overall, his plan includes some of the most lethal tax increases imaginable, including a jump in the capital-gains rate. He’d expand government spending massively, with everything from new public-works projects to increases in foreign aid to a surge in Afghanistan - plus hand out a token $500 welfare check that he calls a tax cut to everyone else.

I don’t really see how that is going to help “Main Street”. Obama promises to be kind to small businesses, but Investors Business Daily warns that small business isn’t safe from Obama’s tax plan. Read the rest of this entry »

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Barack Obama tells the crowd that community organizers from around the country will be a part of his transition team and his administration. He will call them in to “help shape the agenda.” Will any middle class advocates be called in to help shape the agenda? Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama said he will delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on the wealthy because the economy is fragile. He went on to say he will let President Bush’s tax cuts expire in 2010.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m middle class and when President Bush cut taxes, he cut my taxes too. I remember it well because shortly after the tax cuts went into effect I received my annual raise. For the first time in my working life my entire raise appeared in my paycheck. You know how it is, you’re told your getting a raise of X amount but you never can figure out how much of that raise will land in your paycheck.

So if he will allow the tax cuts to expire, won’t any middle class tax cut he proposes simply be a wash? And if he increases taxes on wealthy Americans, as he has promised, won’t he damage the economy, as he admits will happen if taxes go up?

I thinking I’m getting pretty good at figuring out this whole circular logic, nuance thing.