Wow, Dawg -- you got Godwin's law out of the way right away.
But in reference to your theme -- the Republican campaign has gone way out of the way to frame the middle-class tax cut as a form of "welfare". Welfare? Give me a break. Welfare sounds like a code word for "Obama wants to give your hard-earned money to lazy people". But that's obviously b.s.
Another propagandistic word the Repubs have been trotting out lately? "Socialism". They claim that Obama shows "hints of socialism", but won't come right out and call him that. Just drip and drop propaganda, and hope that it takes. Obama is obviously not for egalitarianism. Some may say his proposal to restore taxes on the richest 5% to their pre-Bush level is unfair, but to say it's socialism is purely propaganda.
Another propaganda "gem" we've been hearing from the Republicans in the past few days is that there is the "real America" (THEIR America), and the fake America. Sarah Palin referred to the small town folks cheering for her as the "real America", as if other Americans were somehow less patriotic. How jingoistic! And U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested that there should be a congressional investigation as to which of Obama's cronies in Congress weren't "Pro-America".
Geez Michelle, it sounds to me like YOU are the anti-American here. Just like Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wisc.) in the 1950's marched a bunch of Americans in front of Congress to try to blacklist them as Communist, now Bachmann is trying this same brand of propaganda in the 21st century.
To quote Edward R. Murrow, Congresswoman Bachmann, have you no shame?
Unfortunately I'm not in Bachmann's district so I can't help vote her out, but it looks like she just dug her own political grave. So much for being the bright shining spokesman, the "future" of the Republican party.
