Please, Dems And GOP, Don't Sit Together And Other State Of The Union Thoughts

Although this is falling on some deaf ears, I really, really wished that Democrat and Republican members of congress would not sit together tonight at the State of the Union speech.
Really, it is meaningless gesture in a supposed response to the Massacre In Tucson.
Because it turns out that the man that shot Congressman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people was not doing so for a political statement.
Nonetheless, somehow there is this era of getting along because, well even though we know that there not a political angle to the attempted murder of Mrs. Giffords, it just seems swell.
Well, it is not swell.
Look, no matter what one reads or hears, there are absolute and fundamental differences between the Democrat vision of the federal government and that of the Republicans. No amount of sitting together to hear a speech is going to wash that away.
While the Dear Leader, President Obama, is going to talk about "investment"-which is really going to be federal government spending, the Republicans are going to be talking about cutting the federal government. Now the cuts will simply put federal government spending at 2008 levels. Still much too high.
The Dear Leader, President Obama, will talk a good game about having to rein in spending, yet he will not offer any meaningful reforms, say social security. And please note that this is the result of a much touted commission he appointed. So much for courage.
A great opportunity for the Republicans is to endorse the commission and propose legislation implementing it. I am sure some Republicans would like to do just that.
Sitting together in the House chamber will not change the differences between the parties. The reason for it is phony. Fake. It is to make conservatives and Republicans less likely to have a Joe Wilson moment. Which is too bad.
I do not have a problem with politicians actually speaking the truth. And the Dems are using the Massacre In Tucson to shut down those of us that have a different vision where the United States should go.
And please, if anyone really believes that the political discourse is soooo bad, I recommend this book A Magnificent Catastrophe, a book about the presidential election of 1800. It is how the Democrat party came to be. And the forerunner to the Republicans. It is about the viciousness of that campaign and how it eventually had to be decided in the House of Representatives.
So please, we do not need phony kumbaya sitting together like cheap prom dates. We need to have a real debate on the future of this Great Land.