This is almost as bad as McCain asking AFL-CIO members if they'd cut lettuce for the paltry sum of $50 an hour.

A republican by any other name, Joe Lieberman.

Unfortunately the demise of Joe Lieberman has been greatly exaggerated per this recent Quinnipiac poll.

August 17, 2006 - Lieberman Leads Among Likely Connecticut Voters, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Strong Democratic Boost Gives Rell 2 -1 Lead

Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, running as an independent, gets 53 percent of likely voters, with 41 percent for Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont and 4 percent for Republican Alan Schlesinger, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Among registered voters, Sen. Lieberman gets 49 percent, followed by Lamont with 38 percent and Schlesinger with 4 percent. This compares to a 51 - 27 percent Lieberman lead over Lamont, with 9 percent for Schlesinger in a July 20 poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.

In this latest survey, Lieberman leads 75 - 13 - 10 percent among likely Republican voters, and 58 - 36 - 3 percent among likely independent voters, while likely Democratic voters back Lamont 63 - 35 percent. Two percent are undecided, but 28 percent of those who name a candidate might change their mind before Election Day.

"Sen. Lieberman's support among Republicans is nothing short of amazing. It more than offsets what he has lost among Democrats. As long as Lieberman maintains this kind of support among Republicans, while holding onto a significant number of Democratic votes, the veteran Senator will be hard to beat," said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D.

"Ned Lamont's Democratic primary win was based on a very small percentage of voters statewide. He must expand beyond this base if he is going to beat Lieberman."

Even though there is no exact definition of middle class and since everyone from a janitor to a doctor and obviously certain senators believes they are middle class let us look at what the median household income is and compare that to mighty Joe.

According to Infoploease,

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104688.html

The median income for all households in the year 2004 was 44,389 dollars. So if we can define middle class by median income then Joe Lieberman is way out of line when he says he is middle class.

Of course Lamont is hardly middle class himself and now that Hillary Clinton is backing Lamont one wonders just what Lamont is other than we know he does not agree with Lieberman on Iraq.

So let us see who gave to Lamont.

http://www.opensecrets.org/races/sector.asp?ID=CTS1&cycle=2006&special=N

The largest contribution is from insurance, finance and real estate. The second largest is from other. The second smallest is a pittance from labor. So if Lamont is so progressive why is he getting so little from labor? However what ever Lamont is it may be a moot point as he has a ways to go before he defeats Lieberman come November.

Just caught this article on Tom Paine. It's dead on.

What's more, the big media reek of the same "let them eat cake" attitude. I've seen network news anchors snicker about the working poor struggling to pay high gas prices to get to work.

Today on CNN an anchor was chatting with a business reporter about a slowdown in consumer spending. They referred dismissively to a decline in spending at Wal-Mart, then went on to bemoan similar declines at high-end stores as a REALLY serious trend. You could tell that they could not have cared less about what the working stiffs were going through.

Maybe another Great Depression wouldn't be such a bad thing after all. It might serve as a wake-up call for some of our more affluent politicians and media types.

A Depression would still leave the very top people on top -- and in fact, their comparative advantage would be increased.

Since they are all rich already, why am I STILL paying them? They aren't doing ANYTHING for me.

I react very negatively when I hear the repugs claim that the difference between the two main political parties has nothing to do with class structure.
I'm amazed at the American public's acceptance of the hypocrisy contained therein. Lieberman now thinks like a wrongwinger, more than likely because he's comfortable and can't remember what it was like
when he was a, so called, middle class member.
That's most of the problem with Americans in general, no long term memory. That explains many things...

Then there's the corresponding delusion, in which truly middle-class people think they're voting their class interests when they vote for Republicans of the tax-cut crazy and deregulation persuasion, because they think they're voting their class interests.

Ok, that was redundantly redundant. Sorry about that. I'm going to blame Bill Gates for my typographic error becuse I'm using Windows, rather than my mental sloppiness. Fight the power, and don't trust anyone over 43..

don't trust anyone over 43..

Hey now! I bet you're no spring chicken yourself.

If Senator Joe makes $365,000/year compared to the average American family earning $30,000/year, how many average families will be fleeced by the IRS to compensate for Middle Class Joe's tax loopholes? The answer is obvious.

This is the New Math now being taught in schools today as part of Fearless Leader's 'No Child Left Alive' pogram. When it comes to politicians, don't trust anyone over or under 30.

Weel now. I think that at 72, I've now been officially declared to be sui generis.

He must have meant middle class (bourgeois) in the Flaubertian sense.

America is a society with only three classes: the middle class, the middle class and the middle class.

In that aspect it is a classless society. Yep, no class at all, what I'm saying.