Classless Warfare, Part 3

Charles Pierce makes this catch from the Clown Car Cavalcade Saturday night, in his usual inimitable style as Rick Santorum tries to rewrite yet another phrase out of the allowable political lexicon: "middle-class".

"Governor Romney uses a term I shy away from," Santorum said. "'Middle-class.' There are no "classes" in America. Middle-income, maybe. But we don't put people into 'classes.' We don't get into class warfare. That's their job."

I am telling you this as a true fact: I have never heard a politician say anything that stupid before in 30 years of watching politicians talk in public. I realize that talking about class in this country rather puts the lie to all that American Dream malarkey that raises all that money for y'all, and that Joe McCarthy made talking about class downright dangerous in the 1950's but, Jesus H. Christ on a package tour of the Balkans, when did using the word "class" become a liberal plot? When did it become... wait for it... politically incorrect? But it was the self-righteous fervor, the glistening brow and flashing eyes, with which Santorum delivered himself of this barking idiocy that made the sheer stupidity of it pale in comparison to the proud dickishness with which it was proclaimed.

There are no classes in America? 

At a time when income disparity is at its greatest level since God knows when? At a time when real wages have been stalled since half-past Reagan? At a time in which the richest 10 percent of the country controls two-thirds of our net worth? At the conclusion of three decades in which the change in income among American families has tilted so far toward the richest one-percent that the chart looks like fking K2?

There are no classes in America?

Dick.

Yes sir.  By the way, Santorum's website?  Uses the term middle-class.  Uses the term liberally, I'd say.

Gods above and below, but I cannot wait until President Obama gets a crack at these fools.