Don’t look now, but it seems that some Republicans are waking up to the fact that their party’s incessant plutocratic whining about class warfare isn’t going over well with the American public.
Kirsten Powers EXPLAINS:
There are two things we should be able to count on in this world: Republican lawmakers supporting cutting taxes and GOP leaders defending rich people.
No more. First came the GOP opposition to a tax cut for the middle class — the payroll tax cut. Now we have Republican presidential candidates arguing that greed is actually not good…
It seems the GOP “class warfare” argument has been a dud. True, most Americans don’t begrudge rich people their largesse, nor should they, if it is lawfully earned. What is unseemly is the GOP’s insistence in treating the well off as though they matter more than the middle class. Most Americans just want a fair shake, and there is nothing fair about insisting that tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are necessary and don’t need to be paid for, and then turn around and try to block a middle-class tax cut and complain that it’s not paid for.
Furthermore, it doesn’t take a genius to see that the Bush tax cuts have been in effect for 10 years and the middle class is still waiting to be “trickled down” upon by the wealthy.
Even millionaire Republican presidential candidates like Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich seem to sense something is amiss in the American economic structure, as evidenced by their recent Kinsey gaffes, which acknowledged that the super rich aren’t always the magnificent benefactors or “job creators” the GOP tries to pawn them off as. Yeah, I’m talking about you, Mitt Romney.
Too bad for them that embracing reality counts as being “off message” in the Republican Party.
