The Surprising New Class Politics - EJ Dionne

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_surpsising_new_class_politics_20110327/

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn.—The battle for the Midwest is transforming American politics. Issues of class inequality and union influence, long dormant, have come back to life. And a part of the country that was integral to the Republican surge of 2010 is shifting away from the GOP just a few months later.

Republican governors, particularly in Wisconsin and Ohio, denied themselves political honeymoons by launching frontal assaults on public employee unions and proposing budgets that include deep cuts in popular programs.

Democrats in the region are elated at the quick turn in their fortunes. A few months ago, they worried that a region President Barack Obama dominated in 2008 was turning against him. Republican triumphs in Wisconsin and Ohio, and also in Indiana, Michigan and Iowa, all pointed to trouble for the president.

Now, for reasons having more to do with decisions by GOP governors than with anything the president has done, many voters, particularly in the white working class, are having second thoughts.

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[highplainsdem]

1. K&R

[old mark]

2. K&R- Let's hope the GOP continues with its attacks on workers and

the old and ill. They have been in office since January, and it is not yet April, and they have created a lot of backlash...
Let them continue to show their TRUE FACES to the people.

mark

[RainDog]

3. k&r n/t

[senseandsensibility]

4. KICK! Keep up the good fight, people.

We're counting on you.