“In her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or twelve peasants violated the lady, with the children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband and then killed her.

That is class warfare.

Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not.”

–Lies: and the lying liars who tell them : a fair and balanced look at the Right By Al Franken

http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/fearlessly-if-not-uselessly-entering-the-fact-free-zone/

When it comes to stimulus, however, not all tax cuts are created equal. Republicans favor supply-side tax cuts that favor “job creators.” Democrats favor demand-side tax cuts that give relief to low and middle class consumers. In a 70% consumption-driven economy that has billions of corporate dollars already sitting on the sidelines, and long-term middle class wage stagnation, isn’t the preferred stimulus obvious?

Democrats don’t maintain that all tax cuts are ineffective the way so many Republicans insist that all tax cuts are beneficial. But I suspect most Ds will assert that the main impact of the Bush tax cuts was to unbalance the nation’s budget while doing little to help the economy in the long run.

But when you compare yourself to TR, I can’t help but remember that TR was, above all else, a man of ACTION. And actions, as everyone knows, speak louder than words. You want to encourage the TR comparisons to get re-elected, Mr. President? Then it’s time to break out TR’s legendary big stick, not just give speeches.