Declaring (Class) War On Republicans

Harley Sorensen of the SF Chronicle demands in his latest column that "Bush's continued brazenness in promoting programs that advance the rich has to end." After all, he says,

We're paying for his callowness. Our air and water are more polluted than they should be.

Our health care system is collapsing. According to a recent report, one child in four cannot afford medical treatment when he or she gets sick. One in four! And, worse, one in two cannot afford proper dental treatment.

Bush likes to ask: "What kind of person would gas his own people?" That's a reference to Saddam Hussein gassing the Kurds (who, incidentally, are not "his people"). Bush also asks, of the leader of North Korea, "What kind of person would let his own people starve to death?"

Well, let's continue the class war by asking: "What kind of American leader would deny poor children medical care?"