Subject: [big campaign] New Huff Post from Creamer- When Voters Find Out They've Been Conned
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:10:29 -0500 (EST)
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When Voters Find Out They’ve Been  Conned 

The Corporate CEO’s and big Wall Street Bankers must have been having a  
good old time celebrating their victories in the mid-term elections.   
You can see them now.  High-fiving through the cigar smoke in their wood 
paneled Upper East Side exclusive clubs.  Laughing at how easy it was to put 
one  over on so many everyday working people.  They are thrilled that they 
successfully convinced many Americans to vote  against their own economic 
self-interests by playing on their legitimate anger  that their economic 
well-being is under attack. 
Of course, the cruel irony is that the people who funded the vicious TV  
ads and flights of mail urging everyday Americans to throw out the Democrats 
in  order to demonstrate their fury at the economy, are the very people who 
have  made a killing themselves by attacking the middle class.  
They are the very same people who have outsourced middle class jobs,  
siphoned off ever-larger portions of the fruits of middle class labor, and made  
fortunes speculating with the middle class’ money.  And, unbelievably, they 
are the very  same people whose reckless speculation collapsed the economy 
and cost eight  million Americans their jobs.   
That’s right, the same people who paid for those ads playing on middle  
class economic insecurity are the people who made the middle class insecure in  
the first place. 
Those guys who are celebrating how they pulled one over on everyday  
Americans are like arsonists who set a building on fire and then crow about  their 
heroism organizing the bucket brigade.   
As part of their fall campaign, they sent Republicans scurrying around  the 
country in a frenzy about the budget deficit.  But what is the very first 
thing they do  after the election?  They demand  that the country borrow $700 
billion more dollars to give millionaires more tax  breaks.  You’ve got to 
admire the  sheer chutzpa.  
And there is more.  The  Republicans have every intention of refusing to 
support middle class tax cuts --  of holding middle class tax cuts hostage -- 
until millionaires get theirs  too.   
They spent massive amounts of air time promoting cuts in spending.  What’s 
the first thing they want to cut?  
Unemployment insurance for millions of unemployed workers  who can’t find 
jobs.  
That’s right. New tax breaks for millionaires, and cuts in unemployment  
insurance for middle class workers whose jobs they destroyed. That doesn’t  
exactly square with Tea Party talk about how actions should have  
consequences. 
And that contradiction is precisely  the Republican’s big problem.  It’s  
one thing to vote against incumbents because you’re furious about your 
economic  situation.  It’s another to watch  the guys who you elected to replace 
them vote time and time again to promote the  interests of millionaires and 
billionaires – and to make things worse for  you. 
It will not be long until millions of Americans begin to realize that the  
tonic they bought from the sharpies on Wall Street and corporate CEO’s was 
snake  oil.  
A lot of voters cast their ballots out of anger this fall.  But the 
Republicans don’t have any clue  how angry people will get when they realize they 
have been sold a bill of  goods.   
The great con artists are people who first win the  
confidence of  their mark – hence the name “con” men.  Con men convince 
you to trust them – and then betray your confidence and  steal your money.  
When the mark  discovers the con, he is likely to be really angry.  He is 
angry not simply because he has  lost his money.  He’s angry because  the con 
man played him for a chump. 
Many voters in this fall’s elections thought that when they cast their  
ballot for the Republican candidate, they were supporting the dashing young 
hero  who was going to save the middle class heroine from the oncoming train 
just in  the nick of time.  
As soon as they start making policy in the new Congress it won’t take  long 
for people to realize that the “dashing young hero” outfit was a  
disguise.  In fact, it will be the  greedy villain who is revealed as he gallops up 
as the train approaches.  And instead of untying the knots that  prevent our 
heroine’s escape, he will demand a ransom that must come directly  out of 
her middle class pocket.   Not exactly the outcome those middle class voters 
were expecting, and oh  will it make people angry. 
Robert Creamer is  a long-time political organizer and strategist, and 
author of the book: Stand Up  Straight: How Progressives Can Win, available on 
_Amazon.com._ 
(http://www.amazon.com/Listen-Your-Mother-Straight-Progressives/dp/0979585295/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213241439&sr=8-1) 

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