Non-millionaires are “losers?”

Speaker of the House John Boehner thinks people who aren’t worth hundreds of millions of dollars like Mitt Romney are “losers.”  Appearing on CNN on Sunday – Boehner defended Romney’s enormous wealth – and argued that it will actually appeal to voters since, “the American people do not want to vote for a loser.” 

Maybe we should ask Speaker Boehner what his definition of a “loser” is.  Are school teachers who haven’t made millions laying off factory workers losers?  What about community organizers who devoted their days to registering voters rather than mergers and acquisitions – are they losers, too?  If so – that might explain a lot about what Republicans have been trying to do in the House of Representatives the last year – giving trillions in tax breaks to so-called “winners” – and ripping the social safety net out from under so-called “losers.”