Sen. McCaskill vs Carly Fiorina on Meet The Press this morning. The contrast between a politician and a business executive was stark. McCaskill preached the unhappy gospel of class warfare and overregulation. When asked how Obama planned to pay for his proposed middle class tax cuts she explained that they would be taken from that evil top 1 percent of earners. Once upon a time the Democratic party was better than this. Gov. Al Smith once said that he would take off his coat and fight anyone in his party who tried to make political gains by inciting class differences. McCaskill rambled on about coroporate pay and the odious medicare companies who made 15 billion dollars “on the backs of taxpayers.” Yes, that damn free market, lets start picking arbitrary numbers out of the air for what ceo’s should make and invent a number at which point legitimately gained profits become “windfall”. She then cited the boom years of Clinton as an example of how an economy should be run. Nevermind that those years coincided with the vast expansion of free trade, the abolition of federal welfare, and the rejection of socialized medicine. Two of those three fights are alive today, we killed the perverse incentives of welfare for good, and the GOP is on the right side of both of them. She also denied that teachers unions have too much power in the Democratic party, moments after Fiorina insisted McCain could balance the budget in four years. This exchange was a useful reminder that smart people will say nearly anything, no matter how ridiculous, to be selected as Vice President.