Republican = "Special"

I have had enough of Republicans. They are like that bully on the playground in elementary school...they call you names, punch you in the stomach, and have closeted homosexual fantasies that would make Richard Simmons blush. Everyone around the country is screaming and yelling about the current administration, seemingly forgetting the fact that not even a year ago some analysts weren't sure we'd make it this far. People seem to forget the abysmal crevasse we hovered over for several years and came way too close to falling into, and are more concerned that we have a President that actually cares about the American people, and cares enough to make those who earn a ridiculous sum pay a little more to help the rest of us out. I am not a fan of high taxes, but I believe if someone earns over $2 million per year then they are set. If someone cannot survive on 2 million dollars, then game over, that person needs to be put down because only a rabid individual could not live off an income for one year that is more than some Americans will make in their entire lifetime.

The state of the union address is becoming more and more of a mockery of politics and closer to a pissing match each and every year. I personally believe that such that the Iraq and such that politicians should be mandated to carry and ruler and wear no pants---this way they can just measure one another and get on with running this country. I have seen more mature displays in a middle school popularity contest than in the congressional building. However, I must confess my favorite thing about the entire occasion was the "special" response from the Republican party. McConnell gave the official speech, but it was the pundit circuit that fascinated me the most. In particular was an interview on MSNBC with Eric Cantor, a representative from VA. The interviewer asked Cantor if he agreed with Obama's call for bi-partisanship and a movement toward working together rather than working against one another (and to end a Washington where elections never end---which sounds to me like Obama is arguing for an effective government and we all know that is not acceptable). I am going to paraphrase Cantor's response, for fear that if I write the words verbatim as they were spoken the stupidity of the words would set into motion a series of events that would have to inevitably result in a tearing of the space-time continuum, and without my flux-capacitor operational, it would assuredly spell the end of mankind.

Cantor responded to the question of bi-partisanship by saying that in theory he agreed with the call to work together, but that it was not possible in the present, because the Republican party was so ideologically opposed to the idea and ideals espoused by the Democrats that working together would compromise the very fabric of the nation. Continuing on Cantor offered the most insightful comment about the Republican party I've heard in a while; according to Cantor, the Republican party was a defender of the essentials upon which our country was founded, and in particular is the ideal of equal opportunity, and that the Republican party was unwilling to support any policy or law that infringed upon this most basic ideal by monitoring or regulating the free market system.

I'm sorry....I don't think I heard you right. The Republican party is a defender of equal opportunity, and this can only be accomplished through the free market? It would appear that the Republican party slept through Econ 101 in college (of course that is assuming they went to college). The free market is the antithesis of equal opportunity; to have one is to be in direct conflict with the other. The free market, as it was originally conceived led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and this cycle persisted over time and across generations. In this regards, the equal opportunity of the free market is possible only at a theoretical "starting point", possibly when man emerged from the Hobbsian state of nature and took up civilization, but once the first commodity markets emerged, equal opportunity was a thing of the past. By definition equal opportunity requires that someone intervene with the free market. So, without realizing Cantor provided me with some solace regarding the state of our current governmental divide: anyone who believes that equal opportunity is a byproduct of the free market is special, and as such, a Republican.