Vice President Joe Biden stopped for some custard while campaigning for Russ Feingold in Wisconsin. When he asked the store manager how much, the unimpressed citizen told him it was free. "Just lower our taxes," he said.

Biden's response is the latest exhibit for why these arrogant philistines should be kicked out of government and prevented from holding any position of responsibility in our republic ever again:

"What do we owe you?" Biden is heard saying in footage captured by WISN-TV.

"Don't worry, it's on us," the manager replied. "Lower our taxes and we'll call it [the custard] even."

"Why don't you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?" Biden said a few minutes later.

Biden had walked in to Kopp's mistakenly asking for ice cream instead of custard.

The manager said later in an interview with WISN that he thought Biden didn't seem happy initially about the taxes comment, but that the vice president later whispered that he was just kidding.

No doubt Biden was "just kidding" once he thought about how it would look calling a voter a smartass. It is equally clear that he meant it when he said it. The sense of entitlement and arrogant elitism shown by Biden is shared by his boss and most of the Democrats in Congress.

"Pride goeth before the fall."

Hat Tip: Ed Lasky