The Buffett Rule As Rorschach Test (and the Party Thought Disorders It Reveals)
As President Obama and his campaign team know, the Buffett Rule -- officially the Paying a Fair Share Act -- is a powerful symbol of many Americans' desire for economic justice and reprisal against the richest 1 percent that has arguably cached the country's wealth for itself. So it's only rational that Obama would bring it into focus as the primaries shift to the two-man race for the presidency.