John Hinderaker has le mot juste for Joe Biden, who dismisses the manager of Kopp's frozen custard who asked him to "lower our taxes" as a "smartass."

A simple way to think about the Democratic Party is, you're the human being, they're the tapeworm. Yet they claim a weird sort of parasite's moral superiority over you: if you point out that they have their hand in your pocket, you're a "smartass." The Democratic Party needs to be torn, root and branch, from our public life.

And good ole Joe, that man of the people, with his phony populism, let the mask slip. It's better to be a "smartass" than a horse's.