You make a great point when you say:

“These are the same people that stood by silently for 8 years while W ran this country into the ground.”

Bush rarely vetoed spending bills, brought us an unfunded mandate in the medicare prescription drug bill, started an unnecessary war in Iraq–all of which cost us tons of money and was very fiscally irresponsible.

And many (but certainly not all–read Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan) conservatives were silent or excused it, because Bush was on their team. So, some of their outrage at Obama rings hollow.

But don’t forget, that back in November, when Bush proposed his bailout bill, the House Republicans voted against it while the Democrats rushed to stand shoulder to to shoulder with Bush to pass it. And conservatives/talk radio was vehemently against Bush’s bailout bill just as they are against Obama’s. So, there’s at least a little consistency there.

However, you lose me when you make these comments:

“the funniest thing is that it is the middle class out here acting outraged at the bidding of the superwealthy, Fox News, and the GOP”

And

“What’s sad is the sheer number of middle Americans that have gotten swept up in this hysteria.”

This assumption that middle and low income Americans must automatically resent the wealthy, that because they themselves don’t make much money, they must of course agree with Obama/Democrats’ class warfare agenda, doesn’t wash.

As a lower-income person myself, I’m not jealous of the wealthy, nor do I resent their money–many of them worked hard to create businesses or rise up in their company and have earned their money. I intend to do the same.

It doesn’t make me feel better about myself to see the Left attack the “rich” and raise taxes on them. I don’t need or want other people’s money, in the form of redistributed wealth. Let the rich keep their money and leave me alone to create my own wealth.

So, there’s an arrogance on the Left that demands low and middle income people join them in their class warfare agenda. Truth is, not all low and middle income people are jealous of those making more money. Many just want to be left alone so they can have the freedom to make their own fortunes.

And they also realize that once the government demonizes one segment of society, it rarely stops at that.

For example this article from The Hill says:

“Many economists, including some who voted for Obama, do not believe that he can indefinitely avoid imposing tax increases much further down the income scale — on the middle class.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obamas-tax-reckoning-2009-04-14.html

The more bailouts we do, the more in debt we go, and the more likely that taxes will go up on everybody–which is really where the source of this anger stems.