About That Tax Pledge...

This isn't the first time Obama has broken it, but it is a pretty clear-cut example. First, let's review:

That was then, this is now:

The Politico:

You knew this was coming. Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley asked a staffer about the penalty for not carrying insurance. "Isn't the penalty here an excise tax and won't it affect people making under $250,000 a year?" he asked Thomas Barthold, the joint tax committee's chief.

"It's structured as a penalty excise tax," Barthold answered. “Yes, we think that some people would be subject to the penalty excise tax when everything shakes out. We would expect that some would have incomes less than $200,000.”

Sensing the political danger of that statement, Baucus suggested that the penalty could be collected through an agency other than the IRS...

Oh well that would make it into not-a-tax, then.

He finished the sentence by saying it would make most sense to collect it as a tax.

Because, you know, it is.

You know, after pointing out what seems like hundreds of examples of Barack Obama either intentionally misleading, purposefully deceiving, or outright lying over the past few months, it kind of seems to be losing its impact.

I sure hope Americans don't become desensitized to our President's adversarial relationship with the truth. If that happens, this country is truly lost. Somehow, I have a great deal of confidence in the people of this country because the truth has a way of winning the day. And boy, there's nothing to bring home the truth than a shrinking paycheck.

There's my two cents.