Pretty much sums it up.

We're ticked off at the way you've treated Democrats and we've decided we're leaving.

We intend to form our own country and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast.

We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially to the people of the new country of the Enlightened States of America.

To sum up briefly:

You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.

We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs.
You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states
pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that the Enlightened States of America will be pro choice and anti war and we're going to want all our citizens back from Afganistan at once. If you need people to fight ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home.

With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the US low sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven
Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush
Limbaugh and Bob Jomes University.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy egotists believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

@shrimp for breakfast

I will gladly take that deal. You and your enlightened friends can have every bit of it. I have only one stipulation; once the deal is done, it is permanent.

When are you leaving? I hear Newark is nice this time of year. Don't let the perverial old door hit you in the ole buttocks.

Another monthly letter from the usual group of serial writers. Sigh. Doesn't the AC get enough letters to stop printing those from the same group of people every month??

I like Opryland .....thanks for giving ...

Do elections have consequences? If you have been paying attention to the financial markets, you might think so. Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term.
However, stock prices are not the only thing taking a hit. It appears that the job market is also suffering. In the last 48 hours, the following major corporations have announced layoffs in America (links take you to news stories about the layoffs – with details from the companies):
• Energizer -
The St. Louis-based company said Thursday that it expects to shed about 1,500 employees. When finished, the restructuring should lead to $200 million in pretax yearly savings, Energizer said. It aims to have most of its restructuring steps finished by the end of September 2014.
• Westinghouse -
Westinghouse Anniston, the contractor responsible for shutting down Anniston’s chemical weapons incinerator, has reduced its workforce by another 50 employees.
• Research in Motion Limited -
Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, laid off about 200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday, according to a source close to the company who did not want to be named.
• Lightyear Network Solutions -
More than one dozen employees at a Pikeville company lost their jobs this week. Officials with Lightyear Network Solutions said they are consolidating offices in Louisville and Pikeville to save money.
• Providence Journal -
The Providence Journal Co. laid off 23 full-time workers Wednesday as part of a cost-cutting effort, including 16 members of the Providence Newspaper Guild and 7 non-union employees.
• Hawker Beechcraft -
The company says 240 employees will lose their jobs with the closing of Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark.; Mesa, Ariz.; and San Antonio, Texas.

Boeing (30% of their management staff) -
Boeing Co. said Wednesday it plans to employ 30% fewer executives at its Boeing Defense, Space & Security unit by the end of 2012 compared to 2010 levels.
• CVPH Medical Center -
CVPH Medical Center has handed pink slips to 17 employees. The layoffs — nine in management and eight hourly staffers — are part of an effort to “help bolster the hospital’s financial position in 2013 and beyond,” a press release said.
• US Cellular -
The move will result in 980 job cuts at U.S. Cellular, with 640 in the Chicago area, according to a spokeswoman. The cuts are slightly under 12 percent of the approximately 8,400 total employees U.S. Cellular had at the end of the third quarter.
• Momentive Performance Materials -
About 150 workers at Sistersville’s Momentive Performance Materials plant will be temporarily laid off later this month, officials said this week.
• Rocketdyne -
About 100 employees at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, most of whom work in the San Fernando Valley, were laid off Wednesday in response to dwindling government spending on space exploration, the company said. The layoffs were effective immediately, and 75 percent of them came at the facilities on Canoga and De Soto avenues, which employ about 1,100 people. The company has six sites across the Valley.
• Brake Parts -
The leader of an automotive parts plant in Lincoln County has told state officials that there are plans to lay off 75 workers starting in late December…The layoffs are expected to start Dec. 28 and continue in the first quarter of 2013
• Vestas Wind Systems -
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) is seeking to sell a stake of as much as 20 percent and said it’s reducing headcount by 3,000 to raise the staff cuts by the biggest wind turbine maker to almost a third over two years.
•

Humor is indeed the best medicine and sorely needed now. California home owners have lost $1.7 trillion dollars since BHO took office.

after record corporate profits over his watch, then you haven't even paid attention to the one area where Republicans are supposedly more expert.

greenbaum and you libs...the majority is not always right..history is full of majorities that have done terrible things and have fallen for idols. which is why our founding fathers gave us a republic and not a pure democracy...they tried to protect us from the tyranny of the majority that followed sudden fads and idols....but they could not protect us from greed....all our problems are finacial and moral...and we have those who are in power advocating no personnel responsibility and exceptionalism....there is no conservative who advocates no safety net..but a pernmant hammock and a 50*plus 1 majority to take what they want will destroy our country.

"The people of the nation have spoken for President Obama"

And they also spoke for more Republicans in Congress to put a hobble on Obama's agenda. The PEOPLE may not be as stupid as you think Lowell. If Obama doesn't move to the middle on the economy, taxes, and energy the Democrats are toast. They can't holler Bush for 8 years in a row. Birth control pills only go so far. And the Democrats already have more coverups going on than a cat in a litter box. The truth will be leaked out eventually.

Wake up and smell the coffee Lowell. You won the battle but things don't look good for the war. You won the battle with mostly single issue voters, racial block votes, women's reproductive parts, unions etc. But the one thing you need, the ECONOMY, is already changing. Stock market down, money moving off of the tax table, layoffs being announced by droves. You got a majority vote from single issue voters who do not have the best interest of the country at heart. You can raise taxes all you want now and you will not get any new revenue and the unemployment rate will be going UP based on all of these layoffs I am seeing being announced. The only ones who are going to be hurt in all of this is the working middle class who will be taxed on paycheck income they cannot hide. The rich have moved their money to where you can't get it.

And Barrow.....he is toast next election when we find another candidate. Barrow winning is a fluke of the sheriff's race and some real bad advice given to Republican voters during the primaries. With all of the seats the Republicans picked up in Congress I would say that Barrow's victory is inconsequential.

Clearly, we need a special type font to indicate sarcasm.

Like ecosystems the producers and consumers populations wax and wane-so be it in the good ole USA. It is envitable to create the wealthy class and then just as inevitable for the middle to rebel. Neither can sustain without the other but they fail to see their own merit or the others.