We hope HOTLINE readers don’t view us as GOP cheerleaders. The Republicans are no angels, and they have been co-conspirators in the runaway spending and debt crisis in Washington.

But what exactly is the Democratic message on the economy? Raise taxes on the rich. Destroy America’s energy capacity due to climate change religiosity. Businesses are evil. Expand welfare payments. Grow the government. Defend rotten schools and put teacher union interests above parents and kids. Diversity over merit.

As recently as the 1990s, the Bill Clinton pro-market centrists were ascendant in the Democratic Party. It was a period of balanced budgets, abundant jobs, falling government spending, free trade, a technology boom, and a mighty stock market surge. The era of big government was over.

Now it’s back. Every Democrat in Congress voted against preventing a $4 trillion tax increase next year, punctuating the sad, steep decline of the party.

Quick: name one Democrat in Washington – just one – that has a pro-growth, pro-America agenda.

If you can find one, we’d be first in line to promote him or her.