Real Class Warfare, TomPaine.Com style
[I attended Occidental College, and am proud to say so, especially after reading Matt Miller’s cogent commentary below. -Thomas]
You Want Class Warfare? I’ll Give You Class Warfare
Matt Miller is a senior fellow at Occidental College in Los Angeles, is a syndicated columnist and host of “Left, Right & Center” on KCRW-FM in Los Angeles.
Silly Democrats! Don’t they see that answering the president’s phony economic stimulus plan with a dull old real one is a loser? Why, it’s downright sweet, the way they are actually proposing a sensible stimulus with relief for low-income workers and strapped states. Since the White House is going to blast even tepid opposition as “class warfare,” however, Democrats may as well respond with the kind of full-throated class war that clarifies the stakes.
Here are three such plans ready for introduction tomorrow — not intended as real economic policy, of course, but, like the White House plan, crafted purely for the self-serving debate it can promote.
