No Forwarding Address

I found this week's Republican response to the President's weekly address especially amusing, albeit not in a pleasant way. Arkansas Representative (and soon to be Senator) Tom Cotton observed that the many blessings [a select group of] Americans have in their lives, including those of a material nature, were not the result of their own individual hard work but rather granted to them by an outside entity. I seem to recall the President getting a lot of flak from Republicans when he made a similar comment about business owners a few years back. Now, I know the outside entity to which Representative Cotton was referring was [insert your preferred term for a higher power here], but it's still an example of the Republican Party's rank hypocrisy where the President is concerned. When the President suggests that a "job creator" (to use the fashionable term) owes their success in part to earthly factors, it's un-American. However, when a Republican suggests that said success can be attributed to the blessings of [insert your preferred term for a higher power here], well it's time to break out the apple pie that your mom made. On an individual level, I know there are a great many thoroughly decent - and, yes, truly Christian - Republicans, but the GOP as an entity is a steaming turd of vile hatred that needs to be fired into the deepest darkest reaches of outer space as a warning to extraterrestrials to leave our planet alone until we can evolve into something less hateful.