[muawiyah]

There seem to be a couple of avenues to take in criticizing Mitch Daniels. One is to go after him from the standpoint that he may have misspoken a couple of times, and then just beat the heck out of him over and over and over until he cries uncle.

The other is to try to compare him to "others" claimed to be undifferentiated from him in any way.

In the end you are left with the problem that he's sitting atop the ONLY state government in the Mid West or East of the Mississippi that is SOLVENT! In fact, Indiana is right there next door to America's number one basketcase ~ ILLINOIS!

His edge for "higher office" is simply that his government is not broke and all the others are! It's almost like you don't want anyone with some financial acumen to get in charge.

Hey, TEAParty people ~ Hey, yeah, you guys ~ do you want a candidate who cares about something beyond waste, fraud and abuse like, perhaps, lower debt, lower taxes.......

If you do, find us a candidate eh!

[Bigtigermike]

Mitch Daniels open to VAT, oil tax hike

These comments come on the heels of a September profile in Newsweek, in which Daniels said tax increases might be necessary to tackle the federal deficit. “At some stage, there could well be a tax increase,” Daniels told the magazine. “They say we can’t have grown-up conversations. I think we can.”

Daniels has previously clashed with Norquist over the former’s refusal to sign the “No New Taxes” pledge.