Even as today's top shelf editorial by the WSJ exposes the lie of Obama's "tax cuts," The One inadvertently copped to the purpose and consequences of his tax plan: to punish success and redistribute wealth.

Check out this video from Fox news of a face-to-face exchange had with a plumber in Ohio yesterday. Not with one of the fat-cats who pretends will be the sole victims of his tax assault, but a regular Joe plumber.

Notice how Obama admits to the plumber that his plan will "punish your success." It's just that he doesn't want to punish it -- which in the world of Obama makes it OK, because intentions matter more than consequences.

Obama then makes matters worse by saying he wants to "spread the wealth." That's just the old fashioned Democratic practice of buying votes by taking money from one group of Americans and giving it to another group of Americans.
 
Maybe it's accidental bred by the growing sense of inevitability within the Obama campaign, but let's hope John McCain has enough nerve to take this exchange and clobber Obama with it over and over on Wednesday night. Obama's left-wing tax-and-spend reflexes are a huge liability that McCain has yet to effectively exploit in the debates. A lot of Americans aren't sold on Obama, and this is represents an opening for the McCain campaign to decouple leaners from Obama and put their votes in play again.