Lather. Tax. Repeat.

Let’s just call today “Repeat Saturday.” From the NYT:

Even if Republicans were to agree to Mr. Obama’s core demand — that the top marginal income rates return to the Clinton-era levels of 36 percent and 39.6 percent after Dec. 31, rather than stay at the Bush-era rates of 33 percent and 35 percent — the additional revenue would be only about a quarter of the $1.6 trillion that Mr. Obama wants to collect over 10 years. That would be about half of the $800 billion that Republicans have said they would be willing to raise.

Huh. You don’t say.

How am I supposed to blog about the news when I’m so far out in front of it?