The President has kept his promise. Your gnu will not be taxed.
We’ve always had a hard time telling where the sacred journalistic principle of “confidentiality of sources” ends and the equally sacred journalistic principle of “the public’s right to know” takes over, and our confusion is worse confounded by the latest Sununu episode. Trying to reassure conservatives that the imminent budget summit would not mean new taxes, a “senior White House official” was quoted as saying that if the Democrats propose a tax increase, “it’s our prerogative to say no—and I emphasize the no.” The press corps lost no time in reporting the official’s off-the-record comment, and the next thing you knew his face was on the cover of Time. In the meantime, Mr. Sununu was repudiated by Marlin Fitzwater and denounced by the Democrats. It looks as if he just isn’t Beltway material.
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