Chuck Schumer and Miley Cyrus can’t be wrong

Published November 28, 2011 5:00am ET



If you needed any more evidence that the already floundering Occupy Wall Street movement was going to be mercilessly co-opted by the establishment left, look no further than this Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., interview with Greg Sargent, and this Miley Cyrus video. Schumer tells Sargent:

Schumer rejected the GOP idea that Occupy Wall Street would be a liability for Dems, claiming that Republicans who believe this are “inside their own bubble” and that whatever their view of the protesters themselves, middle class Americans feel like “part of the 99 percent.”

“The American people resent government paralysis, but most of them would say that government is doing too little to help them, not too much.” Schumer added that Dems would make 2012 an “election of choice” in which Democrats are the ones focused on the “decline in middle class incomes.”

Schumer and Sargent are the ones in the bubble. Any poll taken in the past two years will show you that the American people believe the federal government already has too much power, not too little. In September, Gallup asked: “Do you think the federal government has too much power, too little power, or the right amount of power?” A clear majority, 57%, said the federal government had too much power, another 35% said it had the right amount, and only 8% said it had too little power.

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