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Tireless Republican shill Glenn Reynolds works hard everyday to advance the GOP’s interests at his blog, with about 50 billion posts-a-day. Sometimes a juicy headline such as “Obama Tax Plan Would Balloon Deficit, Analysis Finds,” is impossible to resist. By quoting the headline, and nothing else, it sure makes Obama look bad. But if you […]

Tireless Republican shill Glenn Reynolds works hard everyday to advance the GOP’s interests at his blog, with about 50 billion posts-a-day. Sometimes a juicy headline such as “Obama Tax Plan Would Balloon Deficit, Analysis Finds,” is impossible to resist. By quoting the headline, and nothing else, it sure makes Obama look bad. But if you read further, you find nuggets like this in the fourth-from-last paragraph:

Changing the baseline to include the tax cuts implies that the decision has already been made. Under the Bush baseline, the White House simply increased its future deficit projections. Both Obama and McCain want to use that standard, and take it a step further by increasing deficit projections to account for a permanent restriction on the alternative minimum tax. (emphasis added)

If you are too lazy to read that far, the first paragraph states that “the Democratic presidential candidate has adopted a key component of Bush’s fiscal policy.” If the first paragraph is too far for you to read; the subhead states, “Democrat’s Promise to Cut Taxes Without Adding to Debt Relies on Bush Fiscal Policy.”

Reynolds frequently appends the command to “read the whole thing” to the articles he links to. In this case, however, it is easy to see why he didn’t–though the headline supports his Obama/Democrats bad narrative; the article shows that the Democratic nominee’s weakness is to build upon Bush administration fiscal policy.

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