That’s the State of our Union is it?
A good speech, not a great speech. No rousing calls to national greatness but not too much unattainable political garbage either. It had some fine points but at least a couple that worry the hell out of me.
– What happened to the Space initiative? Only a week after proposing trips to the Moon and Mars and mere days after NASA announced the end of life for Hubble due to the restructuring needed to make those trips possible space gets no mention at all? Either the President figures it’s already in motion or he was just trying to do ‘the vision thing’ like his Dad. Smart money bets on the latter.
– The Afghan Constitution “guarantee[s] free elections and full participation by women?” Really? When did that happen exactly? Last I heard, their Constitution guaranteed that Afghanistan would be an Islamic Republic with Islamic Law as the highest authority. Doesn’t that pretty much preclude the above guarantees?
– Oh, and tell me these two sentences aren’t mutually incompatible:
I oppose amnesty, because it would encourage further illegal immigration, and unfairly reward those who break our laws. My temporary worker program will preserve the citizenship path for those who respect the law, while bringing millions of hardworking men and women out from the shadows of American life.
Did I miss something? How on earth do you bring “millions of hardworking men and women out from the shadows of American life” without amnesty? If you ask me, that sounds like the very definition of amnesty. Maybe it’s something in the Washington water that makes words not mean what they mean. Does anyone remember what the definition of “is” is?
But like I said, there was some damn fine stuff in there as well.
– So much for the whiny Democrats who want us to get a hall pass from the UN for everything we do. The President slammed them on their refusal to understand that the Iraq operation is already “internationalized.” Good for him. God bless our allies, I’m glad they’re finally getting some public acclamation for the job they’re doing. Sounds to me like the only “international” parties left off the list were France, Germany, Russia and the collection of thieves and brigands known as the United Nations.
– The marriage commentary was pretty exciting. He stopped about ten words away from openly supporting the Federal Marriage Amendment. Heavy stuff. Glad he finally said something about the Judiciary run amok. Wish he’d have said something about the Congress run amok with his choices for the Judiciary.
– I loved it when he got right in Congress’s face and laid full responsibility for future tax increases directly in their lap.
Unless you act — — unless you act — unless you act, the unfair tax on marriage will go back up. Unless you act, millions of families will be charged $300 more in federal taxes for every child. Unless you act, small businesses will pay higher taxes. Unless you act, the death tax will eventually come back to life. Unless you act, Americans face a tax increase.
Damn right! And then, after the speech, one Congressional nincompoop had the temerity to say that action on taxes “wasn’t going to happen.” Yep folks, that’s the Democratic Party in a nutshell. Never forget, they know better how to spend your money than you do. Why, if you were able to keep your own money you might spend it on things like houses, cars and good schooling. Heaven forfend! What ever will become of our programs to increase abortion on demand, outlaw religious expression and surrender our national sovereignty to pie-in-the-sky utopians from around the world?
Like I said, generally a good speech. Good enough, in fact, that the commentary by the Dems after the speech had already been largely refuted by the President in the Address.
I was looking for the image but can’t find it. I’ll just leave you with the thought. To Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi:
How about a nice hot cup of shut the fuck up?