And here's the problem with providing an unmoderated forum to right-wing ideologues:
Washington, D.C.: Judson -- Are you willing to admit that taxes have actually gone down for the vast majority of Americans under President Obama?
Judson Phillips: No
As Politifact has explained, President Obama did, in fact, cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers.
UPDATE: Oh, this just keeps getting better. Here's how Phillips explained his answer:
Nashville, Tenn.: “Judson -- Are you willing to admit that taxes have actually gone down for the vast majority of Americans under President Obama?
Judson Phillips: No”
Okay - can you provide actual evidence that taxes have increased or stayed the same under President Obama?
Judson Phillips: Let's start with him allowing the bush tax cuts to expire.
We could start there, but ... it hasn't happened!
Obama has proposed allowing the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 to expire -- but that's about two percent of Americans, so it doesn't do anything at all to rebut the statement that “taxes have actually gone down for the vast majority of Americans.”
Of course, the Washington Post will never append a note to this Q&A explaining that Phillips is just flat wrong.
UPDATE 2: More hilarity:
JFK, Reagan, Bush Tax Cuts: Under Reagan and Bush, the deficits boomed as well, which is reason that so much of your tax dollars are going to pay interest on the federal debt. Holding down spending is definitely part of the equation, but only part of it.
Judson Phillips: Deficits did go up. Remember part of the Reagan plan was not only cutting taxes, but cutting spending. The liberals in congress forgot the second part of the equation.
UPDATE 3: Classy:
Judson Phillips: Yes, and your heros, the liberal democrats of the 80's were spending like drunken democrats. I have problem with democrats and liberals being in control of the government. IT's sort of like leaving a convicted sex offender alone with children. It is a very bad idea.
Even more classy:
Judson Phillips: Yes we do. You folks in the left do far worse. Patriotism is not something that cannot be measured. It can be. And you folks on the left, as a general rule are not patriotic. You do not love this country. You are embarrassed by us.
I hate to tell you this, but those of us in fly over country are the real americans.
Any chance -- any chance at all -- the Washington Post grants a forum to someone who says “those of us who live on the coasts are the real Americans” and that conservatives, “as a general rule ... do not love this country”?
Keep in mind: this is a paper that solicited a column arguing that liberals are condescending.