Don't Give Them Any Ideas

Julian Zelizer looks at the budget fight and the President’s assertion that he’s a part of the cutting game and says:

The compromise revealed just how far congressional Republicans have been able to shift the debate since the 2010 midterm elections. This week, President Obama will make a proposal of his own to lower the debt, which will include the politically difficult call for higher taxes.

I’m not sure “politically difficult” means what he thinks it means. Obama has threatened to tax pretty much everything except for thingy.