] Since 2001, President Bush's tax cuts have shifted
] federal tax payments from the richest Americans to a wide
] swath of middle-class families, the Congressional Budget
] Office has found, a conclusion likely to roil the
] presidential election campaign.

[ BC'04 is dismissing it because the response is irreparably colored by the fact that the Democrats requested it and KE'04 is noting that the "CBO is nonpartisan, it's independent, and right now it works for a Republican Congress with a former Bush economist at its head." The shifting of the tax burden is a common meme these days, but not usually from anywhere as high up as the CBO.

Whatever, you'll note that the report is being released on a Friday afternoon, which pretty well guarantees that it's bad news for the administration. -k]

] Since 2001, President Bush's tax cuts have shifted
] federal tax payments from the richest Americans to a wide
] swath of middle-class families, the Congressional Budget
] Office has found, a conclusion likely to roil the
] presidential election campaign.