The 99 Percent Solution

Even though U.S. Senator Dick "His Only Interest Is You" Blumenthal, D-CT, was revealed to be the 11th richest member of Congress with an individual net asset value of $73 million, count on the Democrats to adopt a "us versus the rich guys," approach to the 2012 Election. 


3rd District Congressman Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, the Diaper Queen, is also in the top 20, with a new value of $16 million.


1st District Congressman John Larson, D-CT, (net worth, $280k) continues to support the motley crew of Occupy Wall Street protesters by preaching fairness in our tax policies while pocketing tribute from big corporations like Aetna and United Technologies. Larson thinks we are too stupid to spot this duplicitous nonsense.


Would Larson support a large mob in downtown Hartford if the protesters were harassing workers and fouling the place with excrement,  public sex acts and drug use? Thankfully, Hartford was spared any serious demonstration because almost all of them were state employees on their lunch hour. Larson's comments are another example of his shallowness. For the record, Larson has called the Occupy Wall Street as "the embodiment of the frustration of the American people."


Tell you what, go ask the patrons at the famed "Augie and Ray's" about the protesters and see what they come up with. I am sure embodiment is not a word anyone dining there would use.


These comments and other liberal moral equivalency are just the beginning for the Democrats. 


The "99 percent" solution is the only play for President Obama, the unions and the left as their hopes of holding the White House or reclaiming the House of Representatives fades like an old Kodachrome photo.


Here is how it will play out. Obama and any demagogic Democrat will set the tone this way:


"If we are not careful, the rich, the wealthy who have gotten exponentially richer over the last 10 years, will continue to grab and take what is left of our economy and limit opportunities for the rest of us. The rich will keep hording wealth and not pay their fair share of taxes. All we want is for everyone to give back an appropriate amount based on their good fortune."


"We need tax fairness, we need the government to balance the scales so we have a vibrant Middle Class and not very rich Americans and those slipping into poverty and hopelessness. For economic and social justice to happen requires investments in education, health care and infrastructure and we can't do that until those who can afford it, pay more."


Indeed, Congressman Chris Murphy, D-CT, (net worth $90k) has started to roll out that diatribe, recently telling students at Yale that the current tax structure cannot support the current outlays of the government - read higher rates for businesses and the rich - and yesterday, blaming Republicans and the Tea Party from stopping spending on, well, bridges, roads and rails. 


"It is pure politics motivating Republicans to oppose the president's jobs' bill that economists say would put people back to work, while making important upgrades and improvements to the nation's transportation infrastructure such as highways, bridges, tunnels and rail lines," 


Murphy said.


"I have never been more frustrated in government because Congress has been brought to a standstill by Tea Party and Republican extremists who want to hurt the president at the expense of the middle class and poor. There is no other way to interpret vote after vote in the House against anything the president proposes. Nothing can move forward."


What Congressman Murphy fails to mention is the U.S. Senate, where he wants to work next and is controlled by Democrats, has yet to vote on Obama's second stimulus package. Nor does he mention his vote for the first $1 trillion Congress put to a blow torch under Obama's vision of redistribution of wealth.


 But that is Opi's way - play the passive aggressive act - provide soothing visions of a happy world, offering radical solutions until called out, and then backpedalling with more soothing gobble.


No doubt, Murphy will employ all of the envy tactics against Republican Linda McMahon in the Senate campaign. McMahon would do well to talk about how she built her empire from scratch, lost it all, and got it back again through hard work, luck and risk.  


With any luck, there will be enough Connecticut residents not employed by the government or soured by the ruined economy, to understand that the answer doesn't lie with those who take and hand to others, but those who build and ask others to be a part of it.