Hoffa was blasted because he called for voting?

Breitbart says "They can only win a rhetorical war". Isn't that the only type of war this is? Why threaten those who you disagree with with violence? What difference does it make that you have"all the guns"? You make a stronger case for repealing the Second Amendment than any lefty. Violent paranoids shouldn't have any guns... Or any elected offices either.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/18/1018104/-Andrew-Breitbart-says-Fire-...

It's about damn time #p2 #connecttheleft

Let's make it an issue in the election, no...THE issue. Give the voters a choice, not a Republican lite option. God help us if the Plutocrats win this round. Of course the elections 4 years later might usher in a real radical, not just a Fox News created one.


From The New York Times:

Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases

President Obama called for Congress to adopt his plan to reduce the federal deficit by more than $3 trillion over the next decade, calling for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations.

http://nyti.ms/qKVd1R

Hubris of the wealthy on full display here

Which shouldn't surprise anyone

But why isn't this type of thing played in the media more often, instead of allowing Boehner's claims to go unchallenged about how the rich suffer?  And why do those the wealthy hold so much contempt for give so much support to them?

This writer from the economist gets it:

Mr Schwarzman is saying he's willing to pay higher taxes as long as the middle class does too, and as long as entitlement programmes that benefit the bottom two-thirds of the income scale, like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, are cut. Amazingly, he includes in his call for "shared sacrifice" a plug for a flat tax, a measure long beloved by billionaires that would eliminate the progressivity of the tax code. Mr Schwarzman is right that tax hikes on the "wealthiest two per cent" won't be enough by themselves to fix America's fiscal problems—though the same point could be made about any individual deficit-reduction measure. And pretty much everyone recognises that Medicare and Medicaid spending ultimately has to be reined in. But the repeated focus on ensuring that a deal "falls equitably on all shoulders" is curious for a guy who elsewhere attacks a concern with social justice as "class warfare". And the thrust of the piece isn't so much that he's willing to "share the pain" of the middle class, but that the middle class should "share the pain" of Steven Schwarzman.


Billionaires for taxes: The rich also cry | The Economist
http://www.Economist.com/node/21528919

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What's so bad about class warfare?

Heck, the war has been going on for decades, and the upper class has shamed the middle class into looking the other way. So I'm a class warrior. Good. Bout time our side had some voices fighting back. I feel no shame for saying Wall Street, most of the Hampton's, and almost all CEOs do not deserve what they have. Isn't that the same value judgments made on unions?

From The New York Times:

Republicans Call Obama’s Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare’

The response came after a White House assertion that the president will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year.

http://nyti.ms/ovP70H