Tony's Blog

With the nation's economy a real treat, with Americans losing their jobs, their homes, their dignity, what we really need right now is to mix in a little hate and class warfare. Let's do that. Let's mix it all up and see how it works out.

Oh, wait a minute. It's already begun. CNBC's Rick Santelli, who has nothing on Marie Antoinette, did his journalistic best this week to throw objectivity to the mob. Did you see this guy on CNBC? I mean, did you? If you don't know the definition of arrogant, if you're not quite clear on smug, well, look no further than the Rickster.

Santelli, who pandered to his Chicago Mercantile Exchange friends, describing them as typical, everyday Americans (I'm sure the typical American makes a living trading futures contracts on agricultural commodities), trashed Boomer Obama's $275 billion deficit-financed homeowner bailout plan.

There are a lot of hits in Santelli's tirade. How's this one?

"How about this president and new administration, why don't you put up  a website to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to  see if we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and  give them to people that might have a chance to actually prosper down the road and reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water," Santelli said.

Losers' mortgages? Did you get that? Yeah, that's what we need,  Rick. Didn't Americans throw out the angry, divisive, we versus them agenda, last November?

Here's White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, who must feel like he's back combating the "Obama pals around with terrorists" cabal.

"I...think that it's tremendously important that for people who rant on cable television to be responsible and understand what it  is they're talking about," Gibbs said. "I feel assured that Mr. Santelli doesn't know what he's talking about."

And this is fresh. Santelli thinks our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves, because it's clearly a bad, bad thing to help people in greatest need. Yep, I bet that "we the people" gang just doesn't know what to do with itself.

Hey Rick, I'm embarrassed to admit, we share one thing. We're both Italian, and by extension, we likely enjoy a good meal. But, I'll never invite you over for dinner. You don't even rate the cake.