The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

Huffington was spoofed by actress Michaela Watkins and Nasim Pedrad on Saturday Night Live. They later moved to Santa Barbara California in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U. S.

In 2003 Arianna Huffington ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election. Arianna Huffington (formerly Stassinopoulos; born Αριάννα Στασινοπούλου; July 15 1950) is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. In 2009 Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbes' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media.