Seems all Democrats comment in the morning when the show is on. Then when the sun goes down the Republicans come out. The plot to a horror film? Meh. Phrases written in quotes. Misrepresenting who uses common sound bites. You shouldn't drink out of the coffee cup where you just poured drain cleaner, folks. Both parties are using taglines because most of American media has a short attention span and now you have the sickness. You're having trouble digesting the complexity of it all because you need to break for a message from your local sponsors.

Here are three things I can say for sure: 1) the president is trapped by his own overthinking; 2) the congress, state and federal, is broken; and 3) one party thinks it's a religion and has now split between the keepers of the faith and those protesting that faith. And with that schism they want to rule the country. The intention no one's sure of but the results are guaranteed. History has already proven their group cannot govern on its own. They are completely driven by an antagonistic instinct. Contrarian unto themselves. You who follow these strangely-named talking heads are such mindless followers it's almost difficult for one to comprehend. Almost.

Covering this supposed "story" (whether any of this is "class warfare") represents a significant editorial choice on the part of The Takeaway's producers.

Because there is another, more significant story to cover -- how to grow GNP. I feel quite certain that rather than mulling over the term "class warfare", Rep. Ryan would rather be discussing policies favoring economic growth. Admittedly, "class warfare" is a term that Ryan and other Republicans have now used. But in the very same quote, Rep. Ryan asks what the President proposes to do, to spur economic growth? When does anyone hear the President talk about "growth"? The President talks about increasing taxes on those he deems to be "wealthy," in order to promote some sort of atmosphere of "shared sacrifice." But that is dividing the national economic pie as we currently have it; it is not creating a larger pie.

A discussion of growth is what is sadly lacking in the current political debate. And by sticking to a fight over "class warfare" terminnology, The Takeaway seems to be siding tactically with the White House, at the cost of educating and informing its listeners.

This is not class warfare. This is government intervention to redistribute someone else's funds. Let's not raise the revenue rates, let's stimulate those in a position to grow businesses. Lowering operational costs and leaving the income side of the equation alone is NOT class warfare... it is common sense!

Recently a small (non-scientific) study was done a college campuses, asking students if the wealthy, with earned income should have their taxes increased to offer additional assistance to the poor. The students in general agreed. Then, those with very high GPA's (earned grades, much like earned income) to share one or two tenths w/ students who had marginal GPA's to avoid academic probation. They were opposed to sharing because they had earned the grade and the others w/ the same opportunity did not... case made... its not class, its choosing to capture the opportunities before us.

I'd like to agree with the comment that class warfare has been going on for 30 years in our country. But I can't. In real warfare, both sides take casualties. I don't see that in our case.

So the segment begins by dismissing the charge of class warfare and then goes on to prove Rep. Ryan right and confirm his concerns.
There is also the cynical farce of a President putting off a jobs plan for the unemployed to vacation on Martha's Vineyard with the mega wealthy and then clearly pitting Americans against one another for his own political advantage.

Anyone who doesn't think that class warfare has been raging since the Bush administration has been living in a cave. The obscene accumulation of wealth at the top, the widening chasm between the rich and everyone else, the elimination of taxation, the destruction of government, foreclosures, persistent unemployment: the war rages and the filthy rich are winning.

I don't think this is class warfare. The tax rates which Obama is proposing are much less than what was expected for the rich to pay just decades ago.