Monday, August 02, 2010

Democrats Becoming the Party of the Rich?

It sure seems that way according to this article.

From Newport, R.I., where Kerry’s “Isabel’’ was berthed before heading to Nantucket, to Rhinebeck, N.Y., where Chelsea Clinton was married in a mansion modeled after Versailles, today’s Democrats are looking more like Louis XVI than Tip O’Neill.

Kick in the First Family’s vacation plans for Martha’s Vineyard, and there’s a real air of Marie Antoinette & Co. retreating to idyllic gardens, while Fox News whips up revolutionary flames. The ethics charges against Representative Charles Rangel of New York are added foie gras.

This is part of the reason why Americans are so fed up with Washington as a whole:

It isn’t about having a lot of money. It’s about making people feel you are rubbing your money in their faces, while draining their modest assets for sketchy government programs funded by taxes you don’t want to pay.

Things like the failed stimulus and the auto-bailouts are case-in-point. It looks like they just took a pile of your tax money and set in on fire. They don't even know where all of the spending is going. Then you add fuel to the fire by seeing government bureaucrats slipping out of paying taxes or giving themselves gold-plated pensions at the tax payers expense.

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