"IS THIS PROJECTION ACCURATE?"

Great piece from EJ Dionne on how the Bushies want to frame criticism of thier "stimulus" plan as "class warfare".

I especially enjoyed Dionne showing how Bush himself attempts to engage in "class warfare":

The president, for example, loves to bash the rich if they got that way by being trial lawyers.

Arguing for limits on medical malpractice awards in a North Carolina speech last July, Bush told the story of Jill and Chet Barnes of Las Vegas. "Jill is a student teacher," Bush said, "and her husband is a fireman." Because Nevada had such high malpractice insurance rates, Jill, who was eight weeks pregnant at the time, was having trouble finding a doctor -- "that's got to be really frightening to a young mom" -- and eventually got one by traveling an hour and a half to Arizona.

It didn't take long for Bush to describe the villain of the piece. He declared that "what we want is quality health care, not rich trial lawyers."

Yes, there's a lot to be said about the malpractice issue. And you felt bad for the young couple. But if setting up a teacher and a firefighter against "rich trial lawyers" is not class warfare, then Karl Marx is the current editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages.

Well yeah, we already knew that the bulk of conservative criticism of liberals is obvious projection (Coulter, Kaus and others come to mind). Now we see how it goes to the very top.