How some traffic jams happen »« Leon Panetta lies to justify
murder  What the Occupy movement has achieved   But how things
have changed. Now the vast disparity in income and wealth
between the top 1% and the remaining 99% is front and center.
The gulf between the former and the latter is a major topic of
discussion in almost all venues. Mitt Romney is being portrayed
as an out of touch plutocrat and his extreme wealth is being
seen as somehow reflecting negatively on him even among
conservatives. Rick Perry (!) accused Romney of being a ‘vulture
capitalist’ and Newt Gingrich demanded that he release all his
tax returns and chastised him for being supported by big banks
and acting like a corporate raider while working at Bain
Capital, taking actions that resulted in people being thrown out
of work and losing their homes. Could that really be Newt
Gingrich siding with the workers against the investors?  And all
this is taking place within the Republican party, whose entire
platform used to be predicated on the