While he awaits the arrival of his children in yet another taxpayer-funded aircraft – no word on whether the girls will fly in Bo’s Osprey or something larger – Obama took a couple of brief moments from golf today to announce a new tax he’ll be imposing by executive fiat: $5 per cell phone to fund further high school access to wireless connections.
“You would think that connecting schools to the information superhighway would be a pretty noncontroversial topic,” [White House Press Spokesman] Earnest told reporters in Martha’s Vineyard.
“Unfortunately, we haven’t seen a lot of action in Congress, so the president has advocated an administrative, unilateral action to get this done.”
A nation of one man, not of laws. Hope and change indeed.