Something popped into mind when mulling the Republican Leadership*’s offensive against the Frost family (Graeme Frost being the 12 year old who was grafted into the poster-boy for S-CHIP) .  Over the years, I have heard any number of Republicans and Conservatives bellow  at the use of the phrase “working class” — suggesting that — hell!  The Rich work every bit as hard as anyone else, and who is it to suggest they shouldn’t be so?  I have also heard a certain amount of fury in terms of tax burden on the upper middle class and formulation of how these things play out, with the suggestion that Liberals and Democrats are  placing the bar for the definition of “Rich” rather low — the better to create class resentment and envy, the better to justify or rationalize a tax increase here and no tax cut there.

Today the Frosts are being accused of being too rich for assistance from the S-CHIP.  Graeme was not “vetted” well enough, because — well, just pick through a search engine.  Suddenly, the admission of the lines of poor, middle class, and rich are being re-adjusted for this battle.

* Can’t quite say “Republican” because it is, after all, a bi-partisan bill.  Though I suspect it won’t get past the House with a veto-proof margin, with any number of “Catch and Release” Republicans prepared to ensure such to be the case.

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