My take on the State of the Union.

According to President Obama, people should be responsible to the nation by:

• Keeping jobs at home;
• Helping companies keep jobs at home;
• Cooperating in retraining people for the skills they need to meet the new realities of the world;
• Paying the taxes you are supposed to pay, based on a progressive society;
• Protecting the safety net social programs that are at the core of America, the compromise between the rich and everyone else;
• Working together, but if that's not going to happen, the President is going to push ahead without help from Republicans;
• Supporting the responsible deleveraging of debt.

The GOP response (why just one political party?):

• There are dumb ideas (yes, Mitch Daniels really did say that), and the other side is full of them;
• That rich people should not get special treatment, but deserve all the money they earn;
• Obama's Administration made the economy worse;
• That cutting debt and a smaller government is the way to grow the economy faster, because federal spending is crowding out private spending;
• Only private spending can create jobs.

I couldn't help but think that Republicans must be self-conscious about criticism of their intelligence, to resort to using "dumb" as an adjective in a formal response to the SOTU address.  I've never heard such cheap, rank language in their response, before.

Does this mean the GOP is going to assert their party as the party of higher intelligence, in the 2012 campaign?

Heh.