We Americans live in a time of zero sacrifice. We think what’s good for us is what’s best for everyone. And if it isn’t good for everyone, screw everyone else. We are the Selfish Society.

It doesn’t matter to us if some new program up before Congress is good for the country as a whole. If it doesn’t make our lives better now, if it requires the slightest sacrifice, we’re against it. Sorry, I misstated that. If it looks like in the future, it possibly could lead to a slippery slope that could lead to a slight sacrifice, we’re against it.

It used to be said, “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.” Now it’s like “What’s good for me is all that matters.”

Jack Kennedy, that silly dreamer, said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” When did that get turned around? When did it become politically correct to think, “Screw you, Jack, I’ve got mine”?

When a Michael Douglas movie character said, “Greed is good,” we knew he was the bad guy, which meant that he was wrong. How did Gordon Gecko get to be the good guy whose philosophy is now a mantra for half the people in the country?

I believe in the philosophy of the bigger pie. I don’t believe if everyone protects their cherries, we’ll never get it cooked.

I believe if we make some sacrifices now, it will pay off in the future for everyone, including me, even it means I’m the one who must sacrifice now.

I’m willing to give up a cherry or two now for a piece of pie later.  Are you?

Bi-partisianship has failed. It takes two to bi, and Republicans don’t want to try.

The GOP has decided that for their side to win Obama, Pelosi, Healthcare, and Americans in need, all must lose. So they are singing that classic Groucho Marx ditty.

“I don’t know what they have to say, it makes no difference anyway.
Whatever it is, I’m against it.”

The GOPeers are singing in unison and they are pulling it off. Regular folks are humming along.

“Your proposition may be good, but let’s have one thing understood —
whatever it is, I’m against it!”

Obama believes that we will have better laws and better governance if we can achieive bi-partisianship. He’s right, by that I mean correct, but bi-partisianship just won’t work. At least, not now.

“And even when you’ve changed it or condensed it,
 I’m against it.”

The only possible way to get bi-partisianship on the next big issue is for Dems to totally go it alone on Healthcare. Continually reaching out a hand of bi-partisianship and getting it bit just makes Obama look weak. And the polls seem to show his efforts aren’t working.

The way to achieve bipartisan support is to demonstrate that if GOPers don’t want to play, America doesn’t need them. The votes and the will are there to make laws in which they have no input. The best they can do is vent on FoxNews to position themselves for the next election.

A campaign must be launched that makes Americans aware that Republicans are not needed to solve America’s problems.

“No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I’m against it.”

The Dems need to put the BAM on them. And do it hard.

Maybe the Republicans will start to understand, and put some effort into compromise. Or maybe they’ll scream they’ve been a victim of death panels. If so, it seems to me that they’ve shot themselves.

“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It” Lyrics by Bert Kalmar with music by Harry Ruby, performed by Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers (1932)