Madame Speaker! The President of the United States

Tonight I will attempt to live blog the State of the Union Address.....without cussing.

Madame Speaker! I wonder if Nancy will be able to refrain from slapping Dubya upside the head.

Dubya enters the room and the last ten people who like him - Jean Schmidt and John Boehner among them - clap and shake his hand.

The applause is slow and labored. Dubya looks nervous. He should. I jus saw Liddy....really bad highlight job.

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Madame Speaker calls Congress to order. Madame Speaker presents Dubya and she gets a huge round of applause. :)

The Pres speaks and says it is an honor to begin his speech with "Madame Speaker". Cheney stands and applauds. He congratulates her and she gets a standing O.

Pray for Tim Johnson and Charlie Norwood.

He congratulates the Democrat majority....Democratic dummy.

Spend the people's money wisely....done failed it.
Solve problems today and not save for future generations....ooops....messed this one up already too.

"Our citizens don't really care which side of the aisle we sit on as long as we are willing to cross that aisle when there is work to be done." SDRight, Dubya....riiiight

"The economy is strong and we will keep it that way with enterprise and not more government."

When he said we must balance the federal budget, Charlie Rangel cracked up. Dubya said we can balance the budget without raising taxes. A few Republicans pulled their heads out of their hindends to give a cheer.

Earmarks slipped into bills in the last hour when not even C-span is watching. Oh....and that would be the party in power dropping those earmarks into these bills....that would be YOUR REPUBLICAN MAJORITY....er...your EX Republican majority.

To keep the economy strong we must take on the challenge of entitlements. If we don't take care to keep medicare and social security our children will be faced with huge deficits, huge tax increases or huge cuts in benefits. SD Two out of three on your watch Dubya....two out of three.

Pelosi stood to applaud all children having affordable available healthcare.

Uh Oh...two new initiatives.
Standard tax deductions for people buying health care.
Changing the tax code is a vital step in making health insurance more affordable to more Americans. SD WHAT?

Oh...here we go....Health Savings Accounts
Medical Liability Reform

OK....he's groveling to the base right now. He needs his numbers up. Taxes, runaway law suits, entitlement programs....

OK...sorry...can't make it through without cussing....hold your ears....*%&$#*&^%)$(*$&^#(*%)#$*&^@@*&%%*#

OK...Global Climate Change is real folks...Dubya mentioned it in the SOTU....of course, he mentioned WMD in a SOTU a few years back and they weren't real.

(*#$%*&%^$(*$ war #(*&%$#(*&(& evil #(*%&^#)($*&scarrrrrry$#(*%&$*&^#(*&bad Osama#(%(*$&%#$(*&Party of Fear#%$*&*&^$#*&%^

You must be afraid ....be very afraid....OF IRAN. Here we go. Building up to war with IRan......

No way asshole. We won't let you waste another American life on a war that should never have been. We sure as hell won't let you waste lives and money going to war with Iran.

"We must remove the conditions that inspire hate." Great. Resign. You're a failure as a president and you're a failure as an American.

I'm done for. I'm keeping it in comments. I can't take this anymore.

Comments

I didn't think of that

Brilliant if it was....brilliant if it wasn't

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Very, very impressive

The ending just has me all goosebumpy

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sleeping on the lawn?

You're going to get pegged as a politico-stalker. It's creepy. :)

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

Former Bush speech writer disagrees

Over at MSNBC in the Newsweek section, Michael Gerson wrote a web exclusive (I guess 'cause Newsweek didn't want anyone to really see it) glorifying Dubya's speechifyin' while ridiculing Webb's rebuttal:

The Democratic response by Virginia Sen. James Webb was also memorable, in a different way. Whenever a politician puts out to the media that he has thrown away the speechwriters’ draft and written the remarks himself (as Webb did), it is often a sign of approaching mediocrity. This was worse. Senator Webb made liberal use of clichés: the middle class is “the backbone” of the country, which is losing its “place at the table.” I am not even sure there is a literary term for a mixed metaphor that crosses two clichés.

Does "mixed metaphors" sound familiar. You worked for the king ass-hat of mixed metaphors you ass-clown.

uhh

Our middle class IS the backbone of the country. And, they ARE losing their place at the table.
Aint nothing mixed about it.

Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::
Petition

"Keep the Faith"

Jim Webb on Bush

If he doesn't make changes, "we will be showing him the way."

Hot damn.

Nice Ending

If he doesn't... We'll show him the way.

I think we all liked the ending. :)



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McCain on ABC

Charlie Whatshisname just introduced McCain as a candidate for president. He hasn't declared yet, has he? He didn't deny it. Charlie paused after he said it, and I think maybe he realized his mistake.

Brownback being interviewed on Cspan2

Blithering idiot

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Edwards on MSNBC

Great opening line.

KO asks him about health care . . . John talks about decency and goodness.

Criticizes Bush's rhetoric on health care.

Comments that Bush didn't even mention New Orleans . . . no mention of poverty. John will be on Late Night.

opening line

'Im not surprised he didnt mention Iraq. I think most of America is tired of hearing about Iraq, from him or anyone else.' dont remember exactly, but it made me smile.

Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen
Defeate Dole

"Keep the Faith"

Lindsay Graham

Wonders why no one is listening to Bush.

Duh.

Lindsay Graham

Says it is wrong to oppose the push because it might hurt General Patraeus' feelings. "You callin' Patraeus a liar?"

Lindsey Graham is such a whiner



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Hillary on ABC

Glad to hear he wants to work with us.
There is reason for us to be somewhat skeptical.
The details of health care are very troubling. Regressive tax. Cuts community hospitals and public health centers.
Speech wasn't a lot new. Mostly defense of Iraq.
His passion is in defending policy in Iraq. He will not have receptive audience from dems of repub.
More Iraq blah blah blah....
We have to use more than threats.

Damn, I didn't know you were going to live blog

the SOTU! You guys were much more entertaining! Damn!

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

I would live blog

dinner if I thought people would be interested. :)

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Only you SD

could make a dinner live blog interesting.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

hehehe....well...I dont know

read veterandem's comments. What a hoot.

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Yum

...I'll have to check the recipes later. I'm heading off to bed.

sweet dreams everyone.

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Obama on ABC

Approach Pres's initiatives constructively and try to find common ground. He should spend time to work with us.
Concern about health care plan: no way to control costs, no quality improvements
Given amount of $ proposed to spend, could we get better coverage?
Stubbornness on Iraq policy will do more to prevent policy progress than the presidential campaign will.
We're not going to oversee sectarian war.

ugh

too much time blogging today.
3-4 hours blogging, 6 hours of class, 3 hours of reading supreme court case stuff. im done.

Awards for tonight:
Biggest Jackass to McHenry
Funniest to veterandem
Most annoying to chris matthews
best speech to Webb.

Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen
Defeate Dole

"Keep the Faith"

Good nite Blue

Go get some sleep, but CYE first!

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Southern Dem -

My hat is off to you for watching. I never could look at that man without wanting to hurl.

BS & lying affect me that way. That's probably why I've avoided politics for 30 odd years.

Thanks for watching so I didn't have to - oops...gotta run ... maalox calling ...

I just about cried when he said

"see you next year"

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.



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Vote Democratic! The ass you save may be your own.

GWB

He's the only person I know who can make 8 years seem like an eternity.

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