I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent but I am easily confused by the “politics of change.” Politicians who are against tax increases vote for tax increases when it is expedient to do so. And vice-versa. Seems to me the White House has been loudly proclaiming we can’t, under any circumstances, afford to continue the “Bush Tax Cuts,” but now is supporting keeping them “because we can’t hurt the American people with a tax increase “as we recover from this recession.” What? Which is it? Can’t one just have a “principle” and stick with it regardless of the “political wind.” While I don’t really understand the foibles of political thought, I…