Red Meat

Ross Douthat at the NYTimes has some blood-boiling class warfare rhetoric (as far as conservatives go). He understates the degree to which the rich pay income taxes, but he's certainly right that those who work hard and pay taxes are subsidizing a panoply of well-connected special interests. If the Republican Party doesn't go after some of these interests with their nascent mandate, they'll be booted out again as quickly as they're racing in.