THE STATE OF OUR UNION PRESENTED AS A POLITE ASS-CHEWING
(….by a Democrat president sounding somewhat like….a Republican)

The President’s – State of the Union- speech this past Tuesday night was an hour-long performance, one of his best to date. A very slickly crafted bit of oratory in his usual Southern Baptist preacher style.

There’s no denying this is one of his highest skills, an ability to paint very evocative, inspirational, and motivational word pictures. The kind that can get an audience to blindly stampede itself to follow such political pied-piper-like oratory in whatever direction it has aimed for. It’s –demagoguery – in the smoothest definition of that term.

But the more interesting aspect of his speech was its presentation as a polite (perhaps too polite) ass-chewing of Congress, something few of us taxpaying voters out here in the “real” America would deny it deserves. Even more intriguing was the irony that this was being done by a Democrat president sounding somewhat like a….Republican!

His laundry list of broad proposals to fix what ails our country has put Congress squarely on the hotplate it deserves. For example:

–       Can any of us object to his wanting to take measures that will revive the industrial base of our economy? No.

–       Can any of us deny that to do that our tax code needs a complete overhaul, rather than just band-aid tinkering solutions? No.

–       Can any of us deny that our budgeting and debt-service process needs some serious revision if we expect to regain our financial health? No.

–       Can any of us deny that too many of us are either under or un-employed because hardly anything worthwhile has been done to address these foregoing issues? No.

–       Does anyone care to deny that our veterans, particularly those returning from our recent military adventures in the Middle East, deserve every possible benefit and care we can provide them? No.

–       Can any of us deny that our immigration policies need a complete overhaul? No.

–       Do any of us not want our country restored to the pre-eminent status it once had in the world? No.

So….where’s the beef?

The beef, folks, is that both these two political parties of ours have allowed the extreme elements of political ideology to over ride common sense. To the point where they are more concerned with maintaining political advantage to get re-elected, rather than doing what needs doing for the good of our country as a whole.

The Democrats’ approach for that has been to use the class conflict card any way it can be construed or played, as their perception of the best way to gain political advantage over their political rivals. For their part, the Republicans, have opted not to do or support anything that might conceivably help this President get re-elected, even if it means blocking common sense legislation that could benefit us all as a nation. Talk about grid-lock!

If we, the working taxpaying ninety-eight percent of the ninety-nine percenters (not the other one percenters who are just out there hooting and hollering on our streets and public places like so many whiny bitches) had any smarts, we’d be massively dumping our party affiliations with these two, and go 100% “unaffiliated” or “independent”. Neither of these political parties of ours are looking out for the common interest anymore. They’ve become a class of career office seekers more concerned with their political interests than our own.

If anyone doubts that, just look at the meager quality of the line up the Republicans are offering as an alternative to what we have in the White House today. A lineup which has morphed from being the Seven Dwarfs (all of whom could properly be named Dopey), down to the Four Stooges, engaged in slapstick “debate” brawling, and now probably going to end up with either a Martin & Lewis duo, or a Abbott & Costello one doing its version of a ….who’s on first…. what’s on second….routine.

Well, at the rate things are going, the only choice we’re likely to end up with in November will be whether to stick with the devil we know (even if we don’t care much for his style of dancing), or, much like going on a blind date, take the risk of going for whatever kennel club beauty the other party will be offering us. Not much of a choice.

The only good thing that might be coming out of this campaign season in front of us, are the floods of money all those –SuperPacs – will be blowing on that exercise which will then, temporarily, put a lot of people to work….thereby giving the economy the good goose it could use about now.

Which proves, once again, that here in America, the reason we can afford to have all out political warfare without bloodshed….is because…. we can print our own money!

CENTURION