Unified Congress?

In the last few weeks, we have heard from President Obama and other Democrats about their desire for a unified Congress. I don't recall hearing anything about a unified Congress prior to the past November elections.

More recently, I have heard about a proposal having Democrats and Republicans as a mixed audience during President Obama's State of the Union Address. This would presumably demonstrate a unified Congress. The traditional separation of Democrats and Republicans by a center aisle would be eliminated.

I do not want foxes mixed in with my hens in my chicken house. I do not want Democrats mixed with Republicans in Congress. I will grant that the analogy is not complete. Hens have no fox-like attributes, while many Republicans have already taken on socialistic attributes, similar to Democrats. If there is any semblance of differentiation, let's keep them separate, so the we can know which team they are playing on. We already have Senator Snow of Maine, who parades is a Republican while she is a socialist.

The US has an antitrust law, which basically prohibits private enterprise collaboration, since such collaboration would act to the disadvantage of the American public. The antitrust law promotes competition, in order to offer the public a choice of products or services from which they can choose to its best advantage. This system seems to work very well, although in many cases it is not reasonably enforced. Why should we not be using the same system with the federal government as a supplier of services to the American public. There are two suppliers; Democrats and Republicans. If we combine them, we have created a monopoly, which will then operate to the disadvantage of the American public.

A general attribute of Democrats is that they are loud-speaking with emotion. Some of them, such as President Obama, have a more refined, developed approach and are very effective in speechmaking capability. Republicans, on the other hand, tend to be significantly less effective as a public speakers. It's possible that this can be changed, but will not be easy. Meanwhile, mixing Democrats with Republicans will give the Democrats an opportunity to eat the Republicans alive. Republicans are already partially digested.

We do not want a unified Congress. A unified Congress will tend to kill the Republican spirit. The combination would be a monopoly which would serve against the interests of the American public.