“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession.” – President Barak Obama, August 5, 2009

Not here. Not in the state proudly dubbed the “Free State of Florida.”

It’s a shame to have to point this out, but the United States Senate is considering legislation so inappropriately titled that it might come right out of the bizarro episode of Seinfeld. Nevertheless, while the country is reeling from the onset of a recession coupled with near-double-digit inflation, the most left-wing elements of our policymaking body in Washington seem to have convinced Senator Joe Manchin that down is up, wrong is right, and pain is pleasure.........