[Updated 2/11/11]
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;
Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution
To summarize the recent State of the Union Address Jan. 25, 2011 by the President of the United States of America to a joint session of Congress is not difficult. It was already stated over fifty years ago on the opening pages to J.R.R.Tolkein's classic trilogy, the Lord of the Rings:
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
In other words, to translate the latest Saruman speak and WashingtonDC.orc talk: More Big Government as the Savior of all our Economic Woes and American Sorrows.
And, of course, upon delivery of this august address, there was great rejoicing all through the House of Congress and the Cable TV Studios. Implicitly it was understood that the Great Ogre of Unemployment with his Hordes of Underemployment would not dare to show their faces within the city limits of the national version of Mordor on the Potomac. (Likewise faint hearts should not fear, Nationalsozialistische HealthCare for all will still be enforced freely and rationed as prudently and carefully as every case may require.) Neither did anyone have the unmitigated gall to interrupt and insist that someone was a liar as has happened in the past, regardless if lies, half truths or inaccuracies prevailed.
Yet as others have asked, is there any constitutional mandate for what was presented as the resolution of the problems that are facing the nation? But to ask is to answer, you silly goose. Perish the thought. May it never be.
Yet as others have asked, is there any constitutional mandate for what was presented as the resolution of the problems that are facing the nation? But to ask is to answer, you silly goose. Perish the thought. May it never be.
Twin Siamese Parties
Still the real problem with all this, is not how does one go about electing a new president, or a new congress, but rather how does one elect a new electorate to replace the old electorate who voted for the incumbents. The same, who largely, the Tea Party not excepted, promise more of the same old same old that got us here in the first place. In case we haven't figured it out yet, what was pretty much a Republican version of a Stalinist personality cult preceded this administration's version - of the exact same thing. Neither is it mentioned in polite society or acknowledged by the corporate bought and paid for media, but the two political parties in America are actually Siamese twins.
Socialist Parties
Tweedledum and Tweedledee may be separate entities for tax purposes, but by and large, they are still both firmly rooted in the trunk of the Dire Necessity of More Big Government Management/Control of the Economy - whether indirect, through corporate collusions and cartels (fascism) or direct, through actual ownership of business, i.e. Government Motors (communism). In other words, whether direct or indirect, government control of the economy is of the essence and definition of socialism, however it escapes the talking heads. Ben Gleck can't understand that Social Security is a socialist program, however much that Jon Stewart Leibowitz might chide him about it on the Daily Show because at the least, both of them are really in favor of the fascist version of socialism, with respective emphases on either warfare or welfare. But it's all ice cream, regardless of the flavor.
Socialist Parties
Tweedledum and Tweedledee may be separate entities for tax purposes, but by and large, they are still both firmly rooted in the trunk of the Dire Necessity of More Big Government Management/Control of the Economy - whether indirect, through corporate collusions and cartels (fascism) or direct, through actual ownership of business, i.e. Government Motors (communism). In other words, whether direct or indirect, government control of the economy is of the essence and definition of socialism, however it escapes the talking heads. Ben Gleck can't understand that Social Security is a socialist program, however much that Jon Stewart Leibowitz might chide him about it on the Daily Show because at the least, both of them are really in favor of the fascist version of socialism, with respective emphases on either warfare or welfare. But it's all ice cream, regardless of the flavor.
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