Hillary Provides More '08 GOP Ad Fodder

I'm still convinced that Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president of the United States. Just so there isn't any doubt before I get to the latest dumbassed thing to emerge from between her thick lips.

After talking up her hubby's FEMA director despite his less than sterling record in hurricane disaster relief in an effort to crap on the President vis-a-vie Katrina, now Mrs. Clinton has offered up the stereotypical liberal prescription for every situation: raise taxes.

As President Reagan once said, "Isn't that novel?"

2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she favors rolling back the Bush tax cuts to fund reconstruction efforts in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Asked where the money to rebuild the city should come from, Mrs. Clinton told NBC's Today Show: "It comes from the first instance in not making those tax cuts for rich people like us permanent."

"Let's get back to shared sacrifice," Clinton insisted, defending her tax hike plan. "Let's take care of each other. Let's plan for the future. Let's do what is necessary to put Americans first again."

Let's get back to shared misery....Let the government take care of us....Let's rob the future to fund today's bread & circuses....Let's do what is necessary to put Democrats first again.

Don't know if you needed the translation, but I thought I'd toss it in anyway.

This wasn't an isolated lapse, either:

Mrs. Clinton has consistently argued for a tax hike ever since she was elected to the Senate.

Last year she told a San Francisco audience: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

In 2003 Clinton argued for a tax hike to pay for the Iraq war.

In November 2001, the former first lady blamed the 9/11 attacks on the Bush tax cuts, telling CNN: "If we hadn't passed the big tax cut last spring, that I believe undermined our fiscal responsibility and our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today."

And if the President and his party had ever heeded her advice, the economy would have tanked and he, and they, would no longer be "abusing power" in the Beltway by the mere act of holding it.

If her long-term strategy is to put herself over as a born-again centrist, verbal pants-wettings like this aren't helping her cause.

I hope the RNC is paying attention. Because whoever ends up standing in Hillary's way is going to need all the ammo s/he can get.