Did you hear this load of BS from The Community Organizer yesterday? Time after time during the campaign we heard Obama tell the voters that if they made less than $250,000 a year he wouldn't raise their taxes "one single dime." Now back then quite a lot of people --- unfortunately not enough --- saw right through this man. They knew he would say whatever he needed to say to get elected, and then he would proceed with his tax-and-spend agenda when he took office while making excuses for breaking his promises.

Now we have the president's deficit reduction committee. They met yesterday, and Obama used that meeting as an occasion to address the media. He knows that the deficit commission is going to recommend massive tax hikes. In all probability this commission will recommend a Value Added Tax. That was the very reason for the commission. Obama knows full well - and he knew during the campaign - that he was going to raise taxes on the middle class, on businesses, and especially on the evil, disgusting rich. All he needed to do was come up with the plausible excuse for going back on his campaign pledges. The commission offers him that plausible excuse. When the commission recommendations come out in December (after the mid-term elections and while you're distracted with holiday stuff) Obama will say "Look, these aren't my recommendations. These are the recommendations from a bi-partisan commission." And there you'll have it. It just isn't his fault.

Obama knows that the press is going to hold him accountable for his promises not to raise taxes. It's clear he doesn't want to address those questions, so yesterday in his little oratory he came up with this line.

"Our friends in the media, will ask me and others once a week or once a day about what we're willing to rule out or rule in. That's an old Washington game and it's one that has made it all but impossible in the past for people to sit down and have an honest discussion about putting our country on a more secure fiscal footing. So I want to deliver this message today: We're not playing that game. I'm not going to say what's in. I'm not going to say what's out. I want this commission to be free to do its work."

Yeah ... "an old Washington game." And just what IS that game? It's asking a politician whether or not they're going to stand by a pledge they made to the voters .. and if not, why not? A game? Is there another name we might use for this "old Washington game?" Why yes .. I think there might be! It's called "Holding Politicians Accountable."