Bill Clinton launched a salvo
in his wife’s campaign for 2008, yesterday with George Stephanopoulos.
He went through the Left’s litany about Katrina, race and Iraq. He also
returned to one of his favorite recent themes: “[T]ax cuts are always
popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to
people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I’ve gotten four tax
cuts. … We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia,
and Korea
primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my
tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina.”
It’s interesting that he, like John Kerry last year*, keeps reminding us how successful he (or in Kerry’s case, his wife’s former husband’s family) is in the market, but won’t give up the filthy lucre to help the less advantaged and assuage his limousine liberal guilt.
Nobody
is forcing Clinton to keep the money. He can still figure out what he
would have owed and pay that extra amount to the government. He could
give that amount to charities of his choice. He could even give away
all of the apparent excess that he feels guilty to have and join the
middle class. Let’s start the clock now.
*From the second debate: “Now, for the people earning more than $200,000
a year, you’re going to see a rollback to the level we were at with
Bill Clinton, when people made a lot of money.
“And looking around here, at this group here, I suspect there are only
three people here who are going to be affected: the president, me, and,
Charlie, I’m sorry, you too.”
