Surely on taxes, for example, it works the other way around.
That might be why taxes are the one issue where the conservative position has been wholeheartedly co-opted by liberal politicians (Obama running to McCain's right on tax cuts)
Oops, wrong Atlantic blog...
Posted by TW Andrews | November 17, 2008 11:29 AM
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Not only is it in the wrong thread, but it's inaccurate to boot. Yeah, that's a winner.
Heh, keeping track of all the tabs I open from the various Atlantic blogs is a non-trivial task in the middle of a meeting!
Obama ran to McCain's right on taxes? When did this happen?
I know he attacked McCain for favoring tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations at the cost of an overly regressive tax burden for middle class families. And Obama's attacks on McCain's plan to tax health care benefits to support a credit designed to eventually undercut employee sponsored health insurance. But I must have missed Obama's attacking McCain's tax plan from the right.
This seems like running to McCain's right on taxes to me (or attempting to do so)--Unless you define right as "only tax cuts for the rich" which itself is an indication of how well the "cut taxes" meme has been taken up by all manners of politicians.