Having trouble viewing this email? Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports December 8, 2010 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com . Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics We're in a Hole and Still Digging - Thomas Friedman, New York Times Given where we are, this tax-cut deal with the Republicans is the best President Obama could do since raising taxes in a recession would not have been...

Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2010/12/08/chronicle/ Chronicle · December 8, 2010 The Foundation "It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome." --Alexander Hamilton Editorial Exegesis The Left really wants to soak the rich with tax increases "Does President Obama like or loathe the two-year tax deal he has struck with Republicans? It was hard to tell from his grudging, testy remarks Monday and yesterday, but perhaps that's because he realizes he is repudiating the heart and soul of Obamanomics as the price of giving himself a chance at a second term. In accepting the deal to cut payroll and business taxes and extend all of the Bush-era tax rat

"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another." --James Madison, Federalist No. 55, 1788 Follow The Patriot Post :                You have received this email because you are subscribed to Founder's Quote Daily, a service of The Patriot Post , the conservative journal of rec