I think there is very little argument that the country is in a hole. A deep, deep hole. So why, finding the country in this hole, a hole much deeper than he ever imagined, does Barack Obama find the need to not only keep digging but to bring in new tools to dig even faster?

Such is the case with the president’s misguided plan to create a new tax on banks and his blatantly misleading statements used to sell the proposition to the voting public.

The president is reinvigorating yet another attempt at all out class warfare. The “haves” versus the “have nots”, the “us” against “them” mentality that worked so well for him in the campaign. But make no mistake about it. This new tax has absolutely nothing to do with, as the president said, getting “our money back”. This is a political decision designed to help a failing Democrat Party reignite the victim mentality amongst the voting public that has worked so well for them in the past. The deception behind this plan is profound and the misdirection being used to sell it is so subtle yet complete that it would make even Siegfried and Roy take notes.

“We want our money back” said Barack Obama. What he neglected to say is that most of the banks that received TARP funds have not only already given us our money back, but have given us an additional $8 billion in interest. To say that all these banks owe an additional debt for the emergency funds they received ignores the fact that some, like Goldman Sacks, didn’t want or need the TARP money and only took it because they were forced to do so. It also doesn’t explain the fact that some of the financial institutions being charged this new tax never took TARP money in the first place.

It is indeed the battle cry of a president so diminished in his handling of every task set before him, like the war on terror, that now in an effort to regain some form of stature he must return to the old time tested war on class. Barack Obama talks about Wall Street as if it was located on the moon. He puts Wall Street and the financial institutions in a different class as if they have no bearing in the lives of those on Main Street. To believe that, as proven once again today by Obama’s comments, is to be completely ignorant of just how our economy works.

Excluded from this new tax are the bailed-out, UAW run auto manufacturers General Motors and Chrysler as well as the genesis generators of the financial collapse Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On September 30th, 1999 the very liberal New York Times published an article by the editor of their Washington Bureau Steven A. Holmes warning of the possible catastrophic consequences of the new policy being undertaken by the Clinton administration in forcing lenders to loan to unqualified buyers under the direction of Fannie May and Freddie Mac. In September of 2008, after the collapse, the equally liberal Senator Chuck Schumer all but admitted that it was this inane policy of lending money to people who could never pay it back that was the cause of the financial pandemic. Schumer said “Oh, the lowly mortgage, who would have ever thought that the lowly mortgage has brought us to the brink of financial ruin?” Uhhh…Steven A Holmes of the New York Times did Senator, along with past Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and a host of other economists worldwide. Those who did not think it were the Democrats, like Chuck Schumer and his pal the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank. It was Big Bad Barney who told Fannie and Freddie that the only reason for their existence was to lend to subprime and minority home buyers. Congressman Frank supports the president’s new tax. With his economic track record that in and of itself should be enough to tell the American people that it’s a bad idea.

Once again proving his ignorance of anything economic Barack Obama said the banks being hit with this new tax would not be able to pass this new $90 billion expense on to consumers through increased fees because it would make them uncompetitive with the banks not being charged. This comment is beyond stupid on any number of levels, not the least of which is constitutional. This may be why the president warned the banks not get their lawyers involved fighting against the selective and unfair tax.

In order to stimulate the economy and create jobs businesses need to have access to credit. In order for banks to offer that credit they need to be solvent and profitable. Adding a new tax on the driving force of the economic recovery at a time when unemployment is at 10% and consumer confidence is nonexistent is like dousing the embers of the backyard barbeque with a fire hose. Class warfare is a fine tactic for a community activist but it can be fatal to the economy for the President of the United States.

In November we the people need to take away this guys shovel or the hole we are in will look like the penthouse when he’s done.

Having followed politics for many years I can honestly say that I have never witnessed an individual with absolutely no political power that strikes the level of abject terror into the hearts of liberals like Sarah Palin.

Ronald Reagan made liberals jittery so they tried to portray him as a tottering old war monger. But Jimmy Carter had succeeded in running the country’s economy into the ground, had his brother drinking beer and peeing on the flowers in the White House rose garden and made America a laughing stock around the world with his handling of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran hostage debacle, so much so that by the end of his first term even Attila the Hun would have been seen as an acceptable alternative.

George W Bush certainly raised panic in the liberal community with his successful tax cuts and his firm handling of one of America’s greatest tragedies on 9-11. Every effort was made to detract from his accomplishments through deception and fabrication, all of which was gleefully disseminated by a liberal press anxious to oust him. Try as they might Americans still preferred him to the cardboard John Kerry, which allowed the liberals another four years of Bush is Hitler comparisons.

But these were conservative men wielding great power. Sarah Palin holds no political office. She has no power outside of her own personal comments. She can pass no laws nor can she create any bills. Her only claim to fame is as the ex-Governor of Alaska and as a failed candidate for Vice President. Why then does this political has-been still evoke such a strong sense of terror and trepidation with the mere mention of her name?

As Palin’s book “Going Rogue” makes its way onto store shelves it already holds a place on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Sarah has something to say and Americans are eager to hear it. But it is more than that. You can fact check what Sarah Palin says by the way she lives. Palin is a liberal’s worst nightmare, an honest conservative woman that not only talks the talk but walks the walk. If you want to fact check her dedication to getting rid of corrupt politics, just look at her record and the long list of enemies she made cleaning up politics in Alaska. If you want to fact check her views on conservative financial reform, just look at her record of reform in Alaska and more importantly look at her lifestyle. If you want to fact check her sincerity on her beliefs in the Right to Life you need look no farther than the Downs Syndrome baby in her arms.

Liberals are so desperate to find something, anything, to throw at Sarah Palin that Newsweek’s latest issue cover photo uses an old picture taken for an issue of Runner’s World magazine as an attempt to create a demeaning sexist cheesecake pinup. The Huffington Post is so desperate to slam Palin’s new book that they published a critical review by someone that admits they haven’t even read the book.

If Sarah ever had any hope of garnering even a smattering of support from the liberal feminist sisterhood she has long since abandoned those hopes. Sarah Palin is successful because she is everything the feminists are not and more importantly she is not what they propose women to be. Sarah Palin is not a victim.

That in a nutshell is why Sarah Palin strikes such terror into the beating liberal heart. She does not claim to be a victim and she fights victimization. Her book is part political memoir and part personal autobiography. She does not claim to be a victim of deprived birth by being raised in the wilds of Alaska; in fact she makes it clear she views that as making her stronger. She does not claim to be a victim of genetic defect with the birth of her handicapped son, but rather uses it to show the true meaning of love. Even in the chapters that deal with her frustrations in the handling of the McCain Palin campaign she does not claim to be a victim but rather a fighter that stood up for what she believed, win or lose.

Never in the history of presidential politics has the vice-presidential candidate had so much blame heaped on them for the failure of the ticket. Even ex-vice-presidents that later ran and lost a presidential bid did not receive such glaring culpability. But Palin came through it wiser and stronger. Will she run for office in 2012? Who knows?

But what has liberals worried is not what she does in 2012. It’s what she does between now and then.