What's wrong with class warfare and attacking the rich? Obviously neither the French elite with their neck in the guillotine nor John McCain thought class warfare was a good idea, but what does that have to do with the rest of us?

Perhaps they keep booking him because despite his obvious shortcomings--lack of familiarity with international issues, ignorance of domestic economic concerns, and all the weird flailing around on all the different sides of so many issues, he actually LOOKS much more like a sane person than most of the other Republicans in the Senate.

In other words, he's a bit nuts, but he's not barking mad.

Looks like McCranky still hasn't taken that valium prescription to calm him down, nor the Thorazine for his delusions.

I'm open to declaring class war. After all, for the past 30 years, the rich right has been waging an undeclared class war against the middle and working classes. Let's get it out into the open, shall we?

I suppose that if McCrap is to be consistent, then he should attack good ol' "W" for 'class warfare' since it was "W" himself who signed off on the current expiration date for the unpaid for tax cuts. Anyone holding their breath?

He's a cranky old white man without much of a grasp on the facts. He perfectly mirrors the viewing demographic of the Sunday talk shows. OF COURSE they'll book him! Viewers like to see what they identify with, they return to the show, the ratings are solid, and advertising dollars roll in. Full stop.

The mistake people make is to assume that these shows influence the national political mood or discussion the way they used to. They don't. Their audience watches them for entertainment now, and for validation, not for information. The only reason they still figure so large among the punditry and the chattering classes is, THEY'RE ALL CRANKY WHITE MEN TOO!

Using the phrase class warfare is perjorative and defines the argument in Republican terms. The existing income tax structure presumes those can pay more to help support the country and society will pay more. The question of the maximum marginal rate does not negate the basic premise. The less affluent will still pay taxes if (would love to say when) the Bush tax cuts expire.

Rather than marginal tax rates, let's discuss extending the upper limit for social security to $250,000 or getting rid of the ridiculous capital gain rates for hedge fund traders. Both favor the rich and exacerbate the "class war"..but then again, the rich are special and deserve these tax advantages because of their specialness...to argue that these inequities be adjusted is just mean..poor babies.

John McCain? The incompetent party-boy who upon graduation at the bottom of his class from a legacy college promptly shot down four aircraft before they even got off the deck of the carrier... his carrier, John McCain? The John McCain who after less time in-country than I and my pals spent on a single patrol got said incompetent ass shot down and captured while dropping bombs on innocent civilians from ten thousand feet and then sold out his fellow POWs by receiving preferential treatment as the offspring of a media star John McCain?

That John McCain?

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Class warfare? I've got news for the old man. We're in the middle of c;ass warfare and the rich are winning.

But, Dude, he's a TV star, like Snookie... Desperate House Husbands (in this case the Senate) of Arizona... McCain is one of the great lies of American politics; a crappy, spoiled pilot who crashed too many times, spent time as a POW, yakked to his captors (anyone would, I'm not indicting him for this) and then kicked out his poor wife, married rich, stole money (see McCain Financial scandal(s)...) etc... the man is a creep... and a fool -- see Palin, etc.

-And yet, the Republican meme of "Liberal Media" blithely sails on. . .

I despise - really despise - McCain. But there's a reason he gets on Sunday morning talk shows. It's called ratings. That said, I'm a genuine political junkie and I can't bear to watch any of them. If something interesting gets said, it will hit the internets. In the meantime, we're kvetching about venues that are dull, canned, stupid and unwatched.

Driving wages down and unemployment up. Not class warfare.

Shifting tax burden away from the monied class. Not class warfare.

Privatizing resource revenues and socializing environmental clean-up. Not class warfare.

Hoovering every last nickel out of the economy to the brink of collapse. Not class warfare.

Mentioning any of the above. Class warfare, YA STINKIN' BOLSHEVIK!

I bet JohnnyM took himself off air until his primary was over.

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Yeah, attacking the poor and disabled is one thing, but how dare anyone criticize the rich?

After all, a poor person never provided a job for anyone. Everyone knows people who "take advantage" of social programs are leaches who contribute nothing to America.

I would like to see McCain and his friends work a minimum wage job and live within those means for a month and then let's revisit the subject of "class warfare."

McCain voted against Bush's tax cuts in 2001.

Maybe he just forgot. Or maybe he's off his meds.

"It" remains farcical? No, they remain farcical!

The Sunday shows have been farcical almost from the get-go. They were once, briefly, pretty informative, particularly for people -- in the early days of TV -- getting to see their elected leaders and representatives in operation. Those were before the days of CSpan, of course, so this was the first time you could home in on a pol's face as he lied, cried, harangued, pled and bled. Now they're just one long commercial for Washington-think, an opportunity to reiterate talking points. Like, who needs it!

As a matter of house keeping: McCain was off the tube for the entire month of August, not July.

His only listed appearance in July was on the 4th. He really is slowing down.

McCain and the Republicans don't have a problem with class warfare, as long as they can force the unilateral disarmament of the middle class.

When people got tired of how people spouted BS on Sunday talk shows without every being called on it, politifact.com started a fact check website. WaMo (as opposed to WaPo) could start suggesting alternatives to the current guest list. Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank, maybe even Amy Goodman or Dean Baker. Or perhaps some people outside the Beltway, say Kevin Drum.

Never say McCain is not a man of courage; he had the courage to face his North Vietnamese captors, and now he has the courage to look at himself in the mirror.