GOP says it is necessary to spend my tax dollars to rebuild Iraq,

[Are_grits_groceries]

but calls it a waste if they are used to rebuild the US.

They won't have any taxes because there won't be any jobs.

[LakeSamish706]

1. What I can't figure out is, there have to be middle class Republicans....

losing jobs as well... Why aren't they out there bitching like hell at their representative leaders?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. If you look at the demographics...

most of the Democratic party is comprised of the middle class. The Republican party meanwhile is comprised primarily of the upper class and the lower class.

So, they may or may not be bitching like hell, but more likely they've already ditched the party.

Edited to make some degree of fucking sense. I'm a tool.

[IntravenousDemilo]

7. I would have been surprised...

...if most of the middle class weren't comprised of the middle class. A = A.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. God I'm a moron.

This what happens when you type too fast because you're doing something else. Thanks for calling me out on it, but my point was that middle class is missing from the Republican party, which is why they're in such a world of hurt politically in the first place.

[IntravenousDemilo]

9. Aw, you're hardly a moron, or even a moran.

But if the middle class is shrinking as much as people say, isn't that bad news for the Democrats?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. It absolutely is.

Which, as unfortunate as it may be, with race and class so inextricably linked, that's why we're fortunate to be making in-roads in the hispanic community. That may be awful to say, and I wish like hell it WEREN'T true that the two (race and class) are linked, but from a politically pragmatic point of view, that's why they're an important bloc of voters for Democrats. With a shrinking middle class, the only way to combat it politically is to make in-roads elsewhere.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. They've swallowed this "tax cut, tax cut, tax cut" BS without thinking

about how much is being funneled into ratholes like Iraq instead of being used right here.

They have no trouble throwing it away on everyone but Americans.

[ananda]

2. This is corporofascist codetalk for..

.. continuing to give no bid contracts
to their corporate donors and cronies.

[The Wielding Truth]

5. I agree. I really think that the opposers of this package are

resisting the survival of our social democracy and the middle class.It is a short sighted selfish greedy and un-american mind set that fears investment in the future of our Country!

[zbdent]

6. weren't there a bunch of people screaming ...

"Dear Mr. Bush: Please bomb (my city)!"

Of course, there are people screaming "Why are we spending billions of dollars sending go-karts to Mars?" (answer: If the Republicans get their way, that may be the only place where the human race may have left to survive.)