If you didn't watch the state of the union last night let me catch you up. The economy is on an upswing. The job market is improving. We need to bring our troops home. We need to work together to build a better America. We need more bipartisanship. Basically it's same speech/different tie every year. And the ties aren't even that interesting! They are either red or blue. Maybe, just maybe, we get some stripes. I for one would have enjoyed the tan suit dead of winter or not.
I often think if the SOTU is so rosey what the hell are we fighting about? Take the day off FOX News. The Pres. says everything is fine. Show a Law & Order Marathon instead. The problem with that is two-fold. First L&O is way too hard for Elizabeth Hasselbeck to comment on...much like politics in general. Also often the job of Commander in Chief is to convince the American people that this big snowman he is in charge of is doing just fine in Miami on the beach on the Fourth of July. Basically no matter what you do half the people are not going to like it. Talk about a tough room. People clapped when he said he was quitting! Damn haters. That's the leader of the free world. Ouch.
I hate politicians. They are more alike than different. They are out of touch. They get away with murder (sometimes literally). I will never understand how we let two gaggles of millionaires get to decide what happens to us small fries. And they can't even get along doing it. Ug.
But as a comedian I guess I am more a fan of the Republican party. It's more for ease of use. It's way simpler to make fun of Sarah Palin than it is Barney Frank. Which is saying something. Because Barney Frank is tubby gay man with a Paul Lynde voice. And Sarah Palin is a good looking, Christian woman with five kids. So when you think about it, there's progress.