Will Obama and Dems defend their huge tax increase?

Jennifer Rubin:

On MSNBC last evening Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman crowed that President Obama will be happy to talk about Obamacare for the next few months rather than the lousy economy. That’s quite an admission about his economic stewardship, but it’s bad political punditry as well.

The president hasn’t talked about Obamacare before this court case because it’s a loser politically. That’s not going to change now that the law is actually worse from a political and policy standpoint. The uninsured who will be helped by the measure, to be blunt, either don’t vote or were already voting for him; the conservatives and independents who dislike the bill will be charged up. The Obama camp has known this from the get-go, which is why in that 54-minute Batan-death-march-of-a-speech he couldn’t find time to mention his “signature” legislation.

Moreover, Mitt Romney isn’t going to stop talking about the economy. In fact, his entire argument is that the president’s policies, especiallyObamacare, are sinking the economy. Romney argues that businesses are paralyzed, unwilling to hire due to the overwhelming burden of additional costs associated with everything from health care to expiration of the Bush tax cuts to Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Now he can point to the massive Obamacare tax and introduce a stream of business people willing to talk about the Obama administration’s anti-business, high-tax agenda.

Now on the Obamatax question, Romney is on solid ground calling the president duplicitous in specifically running on a promise not to raise taxes on those earning less than $200,000, selling his bill that way and then telling the court a different story. About 75 percent of those who will hit by the tax earn less than $200,000, according to Congressional Budget Office.

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When liberals sober up after their celebration  of this bad decision by the court, they are going to find themselves on the defensive with a very energized opposition to their policies.  They deserve to get another shellacking.