OMG folks, it's just going to get worse. Obama and the NPR interview.

[MadHound]

I listened to, then read the transcript of Obama's NPR interview, which was aired this morning.

The prognosis isn't good. He wants to cut spending, and mentions that he admires the Catfood Commission for "sparking a conversation". He also mentions that he wants to rework the entire tax code, "simplifying" it and "reforming" it.:banghead:

But I think that this one quote is really telling:

"INSKEEP: Let me ask you about something that we heard from one of our listeners.

We told our listeners we were going to have this conversation today. We got many questions for you. One came from a man named Tom Pluck of Montclair, New Jersey — a man who describes himself as a supporter.

The question that we got was: "Please ask him how keeping the tax rate for the richest the same as it has been for a decade creates one single job."

OBAMA: It doesn't, which is why I was opposed to it — and I'm still opposed to it."

So much for the stimulus value of this deal, Obama is undermining his own talking points.

Read the whole sordid mess for yourself
<http://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/131949362/transcript-obama-on-taxes-economy-and-start>