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Writing for the Wall Street Journal, William McGurn reminds us what happened the last time a Democrat presidential candidate promised to cut middle-class taxes.

That’s right, Bill Clinton forgot his pledge even before taking office and went on to raise taxes on almost everyone.

Is there any reason to expect a repeat from a Barack Obama administration?

Dick Morris has an interesting column pointing out that Barack Obama’s center-ward drift could mean very little once he has to work with a liberal Democratic Congress.

Morris reminds us that the two most liberal (and ineffective) years of the Bill Clinton presidency were his first two when a Democratic-controlled Congress forced him to pursue a liberal agenda instead of the centrist one on which he ran for president.

The Associated Press says Texas oilman T.

Boone Pickens is stepping up his ongoing efforts to get his $2 billion wind-turbine business off the ground — including an acknowledgment that his investment relies on federal tax incentive to survive.

Jason Smothers wrote a great column in The Badger Herald exploring the themes of divided government and change.

Coincidently, the title of the piece is the same as my blog “Divided we stand, united we fall?“:

Found over at Sully’s place:

One might even wonder if a McCain presidency, combined with a Democratic Congress, offers the best chance for a bipartisan-yet-still-decent emissions-reduction bill to get enacted and stay enacted.

(Think Schwarzenegger and health care in California.) I’m skeptical, but it’s not an outlandish argument.