Classic

One of my favorite new sites is The Right Wing Professor. He's a Math professor in NY. I caught on to him because he is in an AFT union and blogs about how to get out of paying full dues and generally gripes about the union every now and again. When he's not doing that, he's regurgitating right-wing talking points and giving advice to the McCain campaign.

Today he popped up a post about how McCain should go after Obama as a tax and spender. As part of the post he wrote "History shows that raising taxes into the teeth of a recession brings about disastrous consequences." I asked him if he could provide two or three examples of this historical truth. Unfortunately, RWP is busy right now, but he'll totally get back to me with some examples when he gets the time. He did, however, have the time to dig up a link to an AP article wherein Obama says that if the economy continues to falter, then he might support renewing the tax cut for the wealthy.

RWP takes this as evidence that his general point is obvious even to the most liberal among us, rather than as evidence that Obama is a centrist with neoliberal tendencies.