Arrogance and Insult

  James Ottavio --

Minutes ago, Republicans threw down the gauntlet.

Instead of working with President Obama on a balanced approach, they just passed a radical budget that is ending the Medicare guarantee.

Meanwhile, the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy aren’t just extended, they’re vastly expanded. Billionaires and corporations that ship jobs overseas would receive millions while seniors are forced to pay more for their health care.

We have to respond right away -- the first quarterly FEC deadline of 2012 is in just 48 hours. We must raise $205,000 more by the deadline to fight back against the radical Republican budget.

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Let’s send a loud and clear message: we’re through with the extreme efforts to undermine seniors, women and the middle class.

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Thank you,

Chris Van Hollen

I am reminded of when AIG, having just been bailed out by the Obama Administration, gave out enormous bonuses.  The arrogance of the wealthy and powerful in America today is boundless and shameless.  And it's insulting:  the assumption seems to be that the rest of us are either too stupid or too powerless --- or both --- to do anything about it.  That, in fact, we are so ignorant and so venal that we will go along with their relentless aggrandizement of additional wealth and power, no matter how extreme.  Heck, maybe they are reading us right.  That's the really scary part. --- JOC