Roger Simon looks at the Congressional Democrats trying to block the Obama-McConnell tax-cut-extensions-for-everybody-whether-they-need-them-or-not bill, and draws the only possible conclusion: Democrats hate rich people, and want everyone else to hate them too.

America has come some distance from the early 20th Century, when white America longed for a Great White Hope to take the heavyweight boxing championship from its first black winner, fighter Jack Johnson. But looking at the 2008 presidential contest, maybe we haven’t come as far as we think. We won’t know unless we talk about it.