Kevin, speaking of TV, I made an appearance on MSNBC’s The Ed Show last night to talk about this article. As you might expect, Ed Schultz and I don’t see eye to eye on this subject; he sees nothing wrong with politicizing the banking sector as long as it’s his guys doing the politicizing. At the end of the segment, he asked what I would do instead to help small business. I told him it might be a good idea not to raise their taxes. Well, that did it: Ed talked over the rest of my spiel, drowning out the part where I pointed out that raising taxes on the top two tax brackets would hit over 70 percent of small-business profits.

Others have said it, but I’ll say it again: Obama’s approach to small business is that he wants to keep them small. I doubt many small-business owners share that preference.

You can view a clip of the appearance here.