Quote of the Week

"Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal."

Class Warrior Newt Gingrich, defending his previously-stated position that child labor laws should be repealed (no wonder the Democrats are praying that this guy gets the GOP nomination).

And in a completely related story, GOP pollster Frank Luntz gives this advice to his fellow Republicans:

Don’t say that the government ‘taxes the rich.’ Instead, tell them that the government ‘takes from the rich.’

“If you talk about raising taxes on the rich,” the public responds favorably, Luntz cautioned. But “if you talk about government taking the money from hardworking Americans, the public says no. Taxing, the public will say yes.”

Republicans should forget about winning the battle over the ‘middle class.’ Call them ‘hardworking taxpayers.’

“[Democrats] cannot win if the fight is on hardworking taxpayers. We can say we defend the ‘middle class’ and the public will say, I’m not sure about that. But defending ‘hardworking taxpayers’ and Republicans have the advantage.”

Luntz is also counseling Republicans not to use the word "capitalism." It sounds like the Occupy Wall Street movement might actually be having an effect.