Fiscal Cliff? No, It’s A Tax Mountain  Rep. Darrell Issa The
Orange County Register  I have a question for President Barack
Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: If former
President George W. Bush was 98 percent right, does that mean
you're 98 percent wrong?  In the weeks leading up to the
November election, then-candidate Barack Obama bombarded the
airwaves with a campaign ad claiming that the Bush-era tax cuts
led to the economic crisis. On Dec. 5, he told the Business
Roundtable we must "make sure that 98 percent of Americans don't
see a single dime in tax increases next year."  For years,
Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi cast the Bush tax cuts as "tax
cuts for the rich." If that's true, then allowing them to expire
would only impact the rich, right?  In a press conference last
week, Pelosi accused Republicans of holding the middle class
"hostage" and called for passage of "middle income tax cuts."
For the better part of the past decade, she called them tax cuts
for the rich, but now, suddenly, they'r