Kentucky: Joe Biden

There you go again Joe Biden.  While the President and Janet Napolitano are trying to help keep the fear of the flu with no name from further dampening any hope for economic recovery, you go on television and tell people not to fly on airplanes or take the subway.

Great.  Just think of the number of industries you have affected with your comments.  Sure I predicted that by the end of April the press would find some other major story to concentrate on other than the "doom and gloom" of a bad economy, and admittedly I didn't see this story coming (how could I) but you've just taken gaffe to a whole new level.

The key component to the repugs' three-decade War on the Middle Class is the destruction of unions.

It's no coincidence that the strongest middle-class economy in American history co-existed with the strongest union membership.  From World War II to the late seventies, more than a third of workers in the U.S. belonged to a union. That membership assured them the decent wage and benefits that allowed one salary to support a family in middle-class comfort:  a house and yard in the suburbs, two cars, nice vacations, college education for 2.5 kids.

But an economy that expands the middle class contracts the rich.  Corporate CEOs were only 10 or 20 times richer than their workers, instead of 100 or 1,000 times richer as they became after the repugs broke the back of unions.

While the Democratic presidential ticket of U.S. Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Joe Biden (D-Del.) are not expected to do too much campaigning in the Bluegrass State, Biden will at least be on the ground on Wednesday to raise a little money for their efforts.

DENVER – Republican strategist Scott Jennings, a Dawson Springs native, believes Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s addition to Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential ticket will “play very well in Kentucky.”

“She’s pro life, pro-Second Amendment, is a sportsmen herself and certainly can relate to many Kentuckians who share those values and attributes,” Jennings told PolitickerKY.com.