Ruth Marcus has a long memory. It stretches all the way back to 2001. So she remembers when John McCain opposed Bush's inital tax cuts, saying, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans." That, of course, is the argument going on in the campaign now, except that McCain's current position is that he cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so few of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, and instead accrue to middle-class Americans. It would be interesting to know what happened in the last seven years to turn John McCain against socialism.
