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President Obama widely quoted today as saying he has been a little amused over the past couple of days by people at Teabagger rallies complaining about taxes.

"You would think they'd be saying thank you,” he said, referring to the near-universal reduction in taxes this year on all but the wealthy.

He's right on the facts, wrong on the politics. His opponents already dominate a media narrative that Dems are, say it with me, tax and spenders. Amusement, a joke, are the wrong response, and will only be bent against him, as if demonstrating callousness or estrangement from real life - remember Bush I and his bemused encounter with a laser code-reader?