Middle-class is NOT Monolithic

One term that was used repeatedly during and after the VP coffee klatch was ‘middle-class’.

The middle-class of America is not monolithic. By the accepted definition, the middle-class encompasses the largest segment of the American public. It is a vague demographic of financial solvency that is without doubt the most diverse of the three vaguely defined economic classes.

Name the demographic; base your assessment of the middle-class on age, race, religion, profession, level of education, number of children, property ownership, political and social activism, level of credit card debt or the preference in household pets and you'll realize that the term 'middle-class' encompasses such a wide range of disparate groups of citizens that the term is nearly meaningless. One might as well simply say 'folks' or 'people'.

'Middle-class' lacks specificity. It is a vapid, empty term used by pundits and politicians as an expedient for prattling on while saying nothing substantive.

Speaking of which...

When are any of these candidates actually going to say anything of real substance about the issues?

Perhaps when the mean temperature of the mythical nether-regions falls below zero degrees Celsius for a protracted period.

Karl Roves Gets a Taste of Democracy in Action

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - On Friday four American citizens attempted to make a “citizens arrest” of Karl Rove, former top aide to President George W. Bush. They were arrested themselves, instead. Rove, one of the recognized members of the Neo-Con ‘brain-trust’, has thumbed his nose at a Congressional subpoena by repeatedly refusing to appear before the committee. Rove left the country the very day of his second scheduled appearance and did not have the common courtesy to notify the committee of his intentions. Contempt of Congress and and issuance of a warrant for his arrest is being considered by the committee.

“It should be Karl Rove in that van. (the paddy-wagon) War Criminal!” one of a dozen protesters shouted as the four were put into a police van outside a Des Moines country club where Rove spoke at a private state Republican party fundraiser.

Chet Guinn, a retired Methodist Minister, was among those led away.

“To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices,” Gwinn told reporters just before his arrest, which took place when protesters stepped past the gate to the private country club.

Such is the price of fighting for the Republic.