We'll give them the Left coast from south LA northward and the East Coast from Virginia north to Illinois. (Indiana and Ohio get to flip a coin; the losers go with the Lefties).

(need the San Diego shipyards for our evil military, though we'll need some big-ass wall building in that corridor)

oh god, i would LOVE if you uneducated morons would secede from the United States! seriously, this agreement's almost perfect, other than the fact that you want to take institutions created by liberals, like the police and the military.

if you think for one second that Red Staters have been "paying the bill" for ANYTHING, you're sadly mistaken. you people feed at the trough of Blue States. let us keep our money and kick you out of our country, and you can outlaw abortion and beat up gays all you like.

i pray that your entreatise falls into the proper hands!

"You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them) .."

That line is absolutely PRICELESS although I would think that between the 3 of them there is more than enough hot air to fuel a cross-country fest.

ms,

I certainly do not hate your thoughts and opinions, they actually keep me very entertained. That is why I come back. I also appreciate you not deleting my comments.

Let's face it, the last two elections would seem to prove that most of America agrees with my views, not yours. Obama won by 8 million votes. Bush won both his elections by less than 3 million combined and declared it a mandate. Obama had over 380 electoral votes. So if i am a whackjob, you must be covered in tin foil to hide your thoughts from the aliens listening in.

First of all, while you are free to leave america, you do not get to decide how to dismantle it. that makes you a traitor. Also, in typical republican fashion, you have clearly put party above country. anyways, splitting the country is not an option. it's a neo-con wet dream and nothing more. to see you so fresh out of ideas that you are debating fantasy instead of applying real ideas to today's issues is very encouraging to those wondering how you will rebound.

Why is it only now that everything you stood for has been tossed aside by the majority of americans that you want to split things evenly? Where was that pretend offer when you were the majority?

for the party that always preached personal responsibility, you have shown none. bush left office without ever grasping the failure of his presidency. you have nothing but excuses when things go wrong on your watch. somehow clinton was responsible for 9-11 even though bush was in office for over eight months when it happened. the robust economy clinton left us with was because of the republican congress. the banks and wall street had to be bailed out on bush's watch but not in your heads. obama has been in office for less than a month and you are trying to blame him for things. it's just sad and pathetic, laughable and wholeheartedly dismissed.

you have been told to go sit on the sidelines, shut up, sit down and let the adults try to straighten things out. and that is right where you are, trying to pretend you are still relevant. but you aren't.

the republican party is completely deserving of what little political power they hold.
your predictions about what will happen are not taken seriously anymore and this is because everything you told the country would happen did not. you no longer have any credibility on wars, on economics, on regulation, on capitalism etc. no one is listening to you and no one is converting to the republican party. the democrats have never been as far down in numbers as you find yourselves and that must be frustrating to you. i understand but do not have any sympathy.

Republicans that voted against the stimulus bill are willing to take the money......because that seems like the equivalent of saying, look I don't believe in gay rights but if that guy in the cowboy hat is giving out free blow jobs, hey who am I not to get in line?

where are your principles? do not take the stimulus money. put your beliefs where your mouths were.

these are hard realities to face but they are still facts.

but really keep up the good work. i appreciate the work you put into your content. i also love removing myself from the real world to visit your alternative universe and deliver a daily dose of reality.

love,
75% of America

Good luck finding scientists. And doctors, who despite what many conservatives are in favor of universal health care. Oh yeah, most people in the banking industry supported Obama, so we'll keep them too. We'll keep 95% of the top colleges and universities, 11 of the 13 original states, and the states that pay more in taxes to the federal gov. then they get back. You can keep Bob Jones University, and the poor states that bitch about taxes but receive more benefit from federal taxes than anyone else.

Good luck, huh? We have plenty of scientists, doctors and banking execs on our side. And you can KEEP your institutions of higher indoctrination.. er, ah, I mean LEARNING. We don't want nor need them. We'll get by on our own. Remember, your side hates war so much we'll have all the weapons, and if there is something you have we need, I'm sure they'll come right along when Al Qaeda comes to attack your side of the country.

Expectations were high for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) last night, delivering the Republican response to the president's address to Congress. Jindal was something of a disaster. The delivery was awkward and sing-song. The arguments were tone-deaf and tiresome. The anecdotes were long and pointless. Jindal hadn't quite practiced enough with a teleprompter. He not only seemed like a guy selling a bad product in an infomercial, Jindal seemed like he was new at it.

It was painful to watch, both because the speech was bad and because it was hard not to feel bad for the guy embarrassing himself on national television.

On one of the cable networks, viewers were told that Jindal was "almost childish," and this "was not Bobby Jindal's greatest oratorical moment." The network? Fox News.

The whole point of inviting Jindal to offer the Republican response was to present the public with something new and different. But as bad as Jindal's performance was, his ideas were even worse -- tax cuts, drilling, school vouchers, spending bad, government bad. Why bother picking a fresh face if all the party has to offer is stale ideas? Why ask a young governor with a reputation for innovation to present the same old agenda that the GOP has pitched for a generation?

Consider David Brooks' take from last night on PBS:

"You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I oppose the stimulus because I thought it was poorly drafted. But to come up at this moment in history with a stale 'government is the problem,' 'we can't trust the federal government' -- it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now. They may not like the way the Democrats have passed the stimulus bill, but that idea that we're just gonna -- that government is going to have no role, the federal government has no role in this, that -- in a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say 'government is the problem, corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending,' it's just a form of nihilism. It's just not where the country is, it's not where the future of the country is. There's an intra-Republican debate. Some people say the Republican Party lost its way because they got too moderate. Some people say they got too weird or too conservative. He thinks they got too moderate, and so he's making that case. I think it's insane, and I just think it's a disaster for the party."

here is a response-

Since you are the minority in this country and have actual very little power at the negotiation table, we have bad news for you. First, we do not agree to the terms you presented. Actually, they are quite humorous. Here's our counter offer - Please feel free to leave, we will be fine without you. You have run this country into the ground with your needless wars and trickle down economics. You can have all the red states and nothing else. The end. Take it or leave it.

Do not let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.

Sincerely,
The clear majority of americans.

mark --

Ever read Atlas Shrugged? You might want to.

I have and it has nothing to do with Mark's sentiments. For what it's worth, you fundie neo-cons need to quit playing the phony intellect by screeching, "READ ATLAS SHRUGGED!" at liberals. Ayn Rand was a staunch Atheist, believed religion to be a crutch for suckers, was fairly liberal in her views, but hated politicians, and believed in personal self-restraint, not a bunch of laws that restrict people's liberties.

lynnaea... Mark is some whackjob that hates my thoughts and opinions so much that he spends all his time here, positing comments about his ideas and opinions.

Don't waste your breath with him. I doubt he's ever read Atlas Shrugged, and doubt he ever will.

You guys can read?