Hugh Hewitt:
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A shattering defeat of the Democrats -- from top to bottom, east to west, and not just in congressional contests but in state house and state legislature elections as well -- is necessary for the country.
But it is also necessary for the Democrats, currently almost wholly within the grip of a combination of hard-left special interests and national leadership from coastal elites and, astonishingly, from great wealth. Vice President Biden recently and hilariously warned that the GOP was not "your father's Republican Party," but rather was a "whole new breed of cat."
He should have spared us the mirth and instead asked himself and his party what had happened to it that it had become so far removed from working men and women and middle-class Americans that it thought nothing of spending a trillion dollars on a stimulus that produced nothing, and jamming through Obamacare which is serially altering, if not ending, health care plans of employees and retirees as it rolls out across the country.
This isn't my grandfather's Democratic Party, which he loyally supported for all of his adult life, nor is it the Democratic Party of the Ohio I grew up in, with its standard bearers John Glenn and John Gilligan.
The Democratic Party is now an agent of European soft socialism -- not the sort that wishes to own the means of production, but the model that wants taxes very high, and to make public benefits ubiquitous, if not very satisfactory. It is run by an elite with more than enough personal assets to enjoy comfort and ease despite the double-digit unemployment their policies have brought about, and to avoid the lines that Obamacare imposes while accessing whatever drugs and surgeries aren't available on the non-Cadillac health care plans they have mandated.
This is the Democratic Party of anti-Israel gestures and pro-ground zero mosque declarations. Its enemies are the Fox News Channel, Catholic bishops who believe in their catechism, entrepreneurs who want to reinvest their profits, and parents who want their kids out of the classrooms of lousy teachers and out of the schools of lousy principals.
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They are the party that has been trying to rule against the will of the people and against the interest of their voters. They are the party that insults voters and the intelligence of voters.
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