NYT's David Leonhardt, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary,
Loves Obama-Care and Higher Taxes  New York Times' chief
economics writer David Leonhardt has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize
for commentary.  The prize committee praised Leonhardt for "his
graceful penetration of America's complicated economics
questions." The White House and congressional Democrats are huge
fans as well, emailing around his previous defenses of programs
like Obama's stimulus. However, the paper's Public Editor chided
the Times in January for placing Leonhardt's neo-liberal
commentaries promoting Obama-care on the front page, which gives
them the imprimatur of objective news.  As documented by Times
Watch, that "graceful penetration" generally involves digging
into citizen's wallets for more federal tax money.  In May 2010
Leonhardt called on Obama to break his promise not to raise
taxes on those making under $250,000 a year, since he considers
high taxes necessary in a modern society. As he wrote in October
2009, "taxes are supposed t