White House Plans To Use Class Warfare As Smoke Screen For Obamacare Disaster

[Breitbart] Barack Obama, desperate for a way to shift a disgruntled American public’s attention away from the disastrous rollout and impending cost of ObamaCare, is going back to the oldest play in the democratic playbook: class warfare. Before his sun-drenched vacation in Hawaii, Obama started the ball rolling, calling for extending federal unemployment benefits that weren’t part of the budget deal that Senate Democrats and House Republicans had made that would fund the government for two years. He urged Congress to imitate what 14 states had done: to raise their minimum wage.

Obama said on December 4, “We know that there are airport workers, and fast-food workers, and nurse assistants, and retail salespeople who work their tails off and are still living at or barely above poverty. And that’s why it’s well past the time to raise a minimum wage that in real terms right now is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office … the combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe.”

Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush, told Fox News that if Obama plays the class warfare card, it could blow up in his face. Rove asserted, “I think the administration is playing with dynamite … In the short run they get some advantage from talking about the minimum wage and the extension of unemployment benefits. But the more this becomes a question of taking from those who have to those that don’t have, the more they engage the American people in a very negative way for the administration.”

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