The party of the Rich

This blogger makes a case that the people in the Blue States are the ones who pay the bills of the federal government. This may very well be true, but it flies in the face of the traditional nonsense that we hear about Republicans are the "party of the rich".

How can this be? How can Republicans be the "party of the rich" when the majority of Republican voters are people in states which receive more federal money than they pay into the treasury? Doesn't this mean that most of the "rich" people live in states which voted for John Kerry and the Democrat party? Of course, the astute observer will remember that 10 of the richest 12 US Senators are Democrats...