Senior McCain Adviser Praises Palin For Raising Taxes, Says ‘We Have To Have Taxes In This Country’
Senior McCain Adviser Praises Palin For Raising Taxes, Says ‘We Have To Have Taxes In This Country’
During an interview with Steve Schmidt, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) senior campaign adviser, last night on CBS Evening News, host Katie Couric noted that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) raised taxes and lobbied for earmarks — policies McCain claims he is against. Couric then asked Schmidt, “how does that square with John McCain’s philosophy?”
In response, Schmidt seemingly decided to ditch any pairing with McCain’s anti-tax philosophy and instead tried to “square” Palin with McCain and his alleged “maverick” persona, praising the fact that Palin had raised taxes because “she doesn’t adhere to a dogmatic principle”:
SCHMIDT: She raised sales taxes because that was the right thing to do for that town at that time. It shows that she doesn’t adhere to a dogmatic principle. We have to have taxes in this country. Here’s the difference. Sen. Obama wants to raise everybody’s federal taxes. Gov. Palin and Sen. McCain are going to cut them.
Watch it:
The McCain campaign has made the claim that Obama is going to raise every Americans’ taxes a mantra over the last several months, even though that claim is false. In fact, immediately after Schmidt praised Palin for raising taxes, he attacked Obama, saying he “wants to raise everybody’s federal taxes.”
The fact is that McCain’s tax policies would not only balloon the federal deficit, but they would actually raise taxes on the middle class while saving all the benefits for the rich.
So it seems that according to Schmidt, raising taxes is ok as long as you’re a Republican.
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I think the Mad Hatter is in charge of Republican talking points.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pmWe raise taxes, no wait, we don't raise taxes, no wait, we need taxes, no wait.... How is it that their brains don't Explode? How can 23% of this nation be stupid/innane/insane enough to buy into this nonsense?
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
If he can't square what he says with what he does....
If he can't even coordinate the message that comes out of his own campaign.....
How is he gonna coordinate the US ?
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmThat's kind of a weird example. "As proof of how I want to lower taxes, here's an example of Palin raising them!"
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm...he attacked Obama, saying he “wants to raise everybody’s federal taxes.”
Cool! I didn't know everybody in the US made over $250,000/year!
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pmCan the media please talk with people willing to state both sides' positions accurately?
Obama's not going to raise "everybody's taxes", just the richest 5%.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm“she doesn’t adhere to a dogmatic principle”
If that's true, Failin' Palin is sure in for a rough time in the republican't party.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pmInstalling a regressive tax is the reich thing to do.
There, you've been corrected.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pmI'm beginning to wonder if the McCain Campaign is being run by Monty Python and we're being asked to Spot the Loony
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm‘We Have To Have Taxes In This Country That Beat The Living Shit Out of The Poor’»
There, fix for ya, TEEP.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pmDemocracy survives if we make sure that taxes don't get in the way of the wealthy paying their housekeepers pocket change.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pmYo, Domehead, Grover Norquist would like a word with you in private.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pmThese guys must be on Dramamine, to keep from getting sick from all their spinning.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmKeep talkin', Schmidty!!! :D
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmCheating on your wife for anonymous homosexual sex in bathrooms, child molestation, scandals, rampant corruption, cronyism, market manipulation, bankrupting the country, killing off the middle class, lying us into a stupid war, keeping us in a stupid war, reducing this once great nation to a police state and on and on. But, hey, IOKIYAR!!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pmMembers of the First American Nations know well that all these politicians speak with forked tongues.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pmGood grief, what is next for this bizarre performance art masquerading as a political campaign? This "up is down" nonsense couldn't get any weirder if McCain dumped Palin and replaced her with a street mime.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pmThis is really off topic BUT you guys need to share in the laughter. Mike Hunt and Peggy Noonan caught in on an open mike. Noonan answer is funny as hell--ends with "it is political bullsh*t"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Noonan_Murphy_trash_Palin_on_hot_mic_Its_over.html
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pmraynman Says:
I’m beginning to wonder if the McCain Campaign is being run by Monty Python and we’re being asked to Spot the Loony
Spot the Loony! LOL
Dude, I am in your debt for the laugh that gave me!
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm"It shows that she doesn’t adhere to a dogmatic principle."
I don't know about anyone else but, if I ever tried to utter such a fantastically asinine lie, my tongue would leap from my mouth and strangle me.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pmAs Long as the Government Keeps Spending...
There ARE NO TAX Increases.
There ARE NO TAX Cuts.
There are Only TAX SHIFTS....and Borrowing, of course, which is really a TAX Shift to the UNBORN.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pmSteve Schmidt certainly isn't the first Republican (or even the first member of the McCain team) to claim that Obama wants to raise everybody's taxes.
Katie Couric should be ashamed for allowing Schmidt to get away with telling something that's an out-and-out lie. And this goes for ALL media talking heads who just smile, nod, and allow the lies to continue.
If the media won't call these liars what they are (and yes -- when they tell deliberate falsehoods they KNOW aren't true, they are liars), then Obama needs to do it. And his team needs to do it. And we need to do it.
Steve Schmidt is a LIAR.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pmWow, this mental disconnect ranks up there with “O’Hanlon: Bush deserves credit for Iraq being free of WMD.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:59 pmUm. Missmolly. Katie Couric proved her lack of integrity when she left "the real McCain" on the cutting room floor. And I think she gave up shame when she plagiarized her personal blog entries. Neither she, nor her immediate supervisors, should still be employed by the network Walter built. And until they are gone I will ascribe no more importance to CBS than I do to FAUX.
Personally, I don't think Ms. Couric deserves a more important role than covering washed-up movie stars who behave badly. And I wouldn't blame them for telling her to go Cheney herself.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pmHuh?
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pmDoesn't this monumental fool know that republican kids who don't "adhere to dogmatic principle" are sent to Jesus Camp until they love GOD and GOP with equal fanaticism? Are we sure this guy's an adviser and not some sort of "librul" plant trying to confuse the Faithful?
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pmAs I understand it, she raised taxes in Wasilla to pay for a sports complex. Instead of grabbing the land when it was available, a developer bought it. She tried to have the property taken under emminent domain, and the lawsuit cost the town a lot of money.
If I am wrong about this, then I apologize and I need to check other sources besides the Anchorage Daily News.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 pmObama will raise taxes on all Americans -- that own their own planes. McCain's constituency.
Of course in Alaska, a lot of people have to own a plane just to get to their house... so those city folk can pay more taxes and that's ok.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 pmExcuse me, I suffer from brain damage. How is it we're going to cut taxes and still pay for everything?
I want to apologize for sounding stupid.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:19 amSales taxes cost more to lower income people. Her taxes favored business and landowners.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:12 pm