The Brilliant Mr. Bush

Chris Wallace got the opportunity to interview the President at Camp David a few days ago and Fox ran the interview yesterday to beat out the other networks and their bobbleheads. Needless to say, a lengthy interview produced quite a few ridiculous remarks from Mr. Bush. The best ones are when he tries to come after Democrats. Who does he think he's kidding when talking about taxes?

From The Plank:

When Chris Wallace sits down for a not-quite-Valentine's Day love fest with President Bush, you can be sure there will be some fun moments. This one caught my eye:

WALLACE: How does [McCain] overcome all of that and...

BUSH: Because there's two big issues. One is, who's going to keep your taxes low? Most Americans feel overtaxed and I promise you the Democrat party is going to field a candidate who says I'm going to raise your tax.

If they're going to say, oh, we're only going to tax the rich people, but most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes and the middle class gets stuck.

We've had -- we've been through this drill before. We're only going to tax the rich and all you have to do is look at the history of that kind of language and see who gets stuck with the bill.

What a truly remarkable answer. The Democrats want to raise rates on the wealthiest Americans, but Bush is saying that in fact this will screw the middle class because the rich have ways to avoid paying taxes. The obvious question is, then, why has Bush spent so much time giving tax cuts to the rich?!?!

Or why has Bush been so busy protecting the rich, allowing them to not only pay less taxes but to get out of the diminished rate anyways. And in case you didn't know, keeping an expensive war going on for a hundred years is going to have to be paid somehow. If it doesn't come from the rich, it'll be paid by a combination of the rest of us, and the rest of us' children and their children.