What’s Wrong With The Sheep?

The soothing chorus of “baaa-baaa” that has accompanied President Barack Obama’s every move over the last three months has suffered an unexpected “meh.”

The sheep following him off the cliff aren’t revolting, mind you, but the measured distance that some Democrats are staking out from “The One’s” latest revenue-grabbing scheme is no doubt giving him cause for pause.

In response to Obama’s proposed $210 billion tax increase on businesses, here’s a smattering of Democratic “meh-ing …”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, called for “further study” of Obama’s proposals within minutes of the president’s announcement yesterday. Joseph Crowley, a Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said he doesn’t want any tax changes to “harm” Citigroup Inc., his New York district’s largest private-sector employer.

Natalie Ravitz, a spokeswoman for Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, said that any tax overhaul should not lead to “unintended consequences.”

“Further study?”

“Unintended consequences?”

“Meh-meh-meh!!!”

What the hell are these Democrats thinking?

Don’t they know that “The One” is not to be questioned? That his pronouncements come gilded with gold doo-dads, floating on feathery fluffiness, wafting on wispy clouds that float down from the fount of all wisdom and understanding on the mountain of all truth and knowledge?

What we’re obviously trying to say is that “The One” is God, people. And you don’t subject God’s proposals to “further study” or fret over their “unintended consequences,” do you?

Maybe it was how Obama pitched his massive tax increase – by accusing a bunch of reputable U.S. businesses of being part of a massive “tax scam.”

From Bloomberg:

The U.S. has “a broken tax system” that is “full of corporate loopholes that makes it perfectly legal for companies to avoid paying their fair share,” Obama said as he outlined his plan with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the White House. Obama called most of the breaks “unjustifiable” and likened some company practices to a “tax scam.”

That rhetoric stung some executives. Carl Guardino, chief executive of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, told Treasury officials on a conference call after the speech that Obama’s “word choices were a bit troubling” because chief executives in his organization are “proud Americans.”

A reporter for Bloomberg News, who identified himself and his affiliation, was on the call between Treasury officials and the business leaders.

In an interview after the call, Guardino said he and 52 other top executives of companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and Oracle Corp., meeting in Washington this week found it “surprising to be construed in the same way as tax cheats.”

Meh! Meh! Mehhhhh!!!

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