The Ant and the Grasshopper, a political tale:

I found this little gem on Race42012 (formerly 08), a political blog I've been following for over a year now. They discuss ad nauseum the struggles and victories of the Republican party. I highly recommend it. Here's the story and link:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. So far, so good, eh?

The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like him, are cold and starving.

NBC, PBS, ABC, CBS and CNN show up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food. America and the world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Then a representative of the NAAGB (National Association of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with “green bias”, and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism.

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” President Obama make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Katie Couric that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Bush summers, or as Obama refers to it, the “Fahrenheit ‘08″.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi exclaim in an interview with Chris Matthews that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and they call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share.”

Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act”. Retroactive to the beginning of the summer, the ant was fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.  The ant moves to Dubai and starts a successful agribiz company. 

MSNBC later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he’s in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him since he doesn’t know how to maintain it.  Inadequate government funding is blamed, Bill Clinton is appointed to head a commission of enquiry that will cost $25,000,000.

The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the New York Times blames it on the obvious failure of the previous Republican led Congress to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching America’s multicultural diversity, who promptly set up a marijuana grow op and terrorize the community.