The State of the Union Freak Show
(Nancy sat on her hands.)
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The speech was not as non-eventful as I had feared it would be, but…
The health care and federal fuel mandates were make-government nonsense to be (hopefully) ignored. For all his talk about the private sector doing this or that, if he believed it, he should get out of the way. The fuel mandates, as proposed, would be an insidious intervention by the federal government into the core of our economy. As well intentioned as he might think he was being, it is what President Reagan (in '86) said we had beaten: "Government growing beyond our consent [to] become a lumbering giant."
But none of that matters. He hit the portion explaining Iraq clearly and completely. I was proud of my President in that instant. Nancy sat on her hands, as to applaud would be to offend the special interests which own her career.
Last night, the press were watching their own freak show. The WashPost has him begging Congress to give his Iraq plan a chance and trying to spin his legacy.
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The New York Times told us that the President "tried to resuscitate his ailing presidency Tuesday night." The paper snarled and hyperbolized that "power has flowed away from the president in the new Washington."
Out west, Janet Hooks of the Los Angeles Times suggested that the President had failed "to rescue the last quarter of his presidency from irrelevance and patch his tattered legacy."
All of this dross was written before the speech, and none of it is true. A President is as relevant as the office, and an election cannot tinker with the Constitution. His legacy will be written largely by the outcome of the war, which is yet to be determined.
The audacity and mendacity with which these intellectual pip squeaks operate would have been astounding if we did not know their dismal agenda. They portray themselves as people filing past a tented sideshow starting at three-headed babies and overly-hirsute gals.
I do not believe for an instant that it is morning in America on all fronts, but the only freak show I'm watching is being put on by the monstrous left. I can't gawk and ogle, as it is not healthy.
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For all his talk about the private sector doing this or that, if he believed it, he should get out of the way. The fuel mandates, as proposed, would be an insidious intervention by the federal government into the core of our economy.
I couldn't agree more. I hate to be cynical, but to my ears this has the ring of "a sop to Midwestern voters" about it. Who cares if something is profoundly anti-free market, if it nets the GOP a few votes?
Or did they just write the articles before hand.
Veritas magna est et praevalet.
The proposal is just an end run to another kind of farm subsidies.
I was really disappointed in the President tonight because not once did he remind real Americans that the Demo'Rat Party is a full partner of Al Qaeda and provides aid and comfort to terrists. Other than that - Greatest. Speech. Ever. The President is a true visionary.
What should the country do with the Demo'Rats after the War on Terror is won by the U.S.? The President's "surge" plan will work and Iraq should be stable by July or August. Hopefully Gitmo will still be running so we can send those moonbats to spend time with their terrist friends.
The Demo'Rats have two years to get with the President's vision and the real American people will be watching the Wicked Pelosi of the West to make sure she obeys the President and doesn't get in the way of victory over the terrists.
Although full points for "Wicked Pelosi of the West". That might have passed unnoticed. I say might; aside from everything else, it didn't scan.
Bye-bye, Moby.
Moe
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
and media dirtbags are gloating over Bush's "tatterd legacy".
Well we all can't have the same priorities but I suspect theirs are a little out of whack. But then their enemies are much different from the ones I perceive.
It took them six years of hard work, which they enjoyed, to drag Bush down to where he is, for all his shortcomings, a man whose shoes they are not fit to lick.
Let them revel in the glories of new taxes, minimum wage hikes, and the full panoply of controls and domestic blunders. As sure as they write and think at the sixth grade level, if that, there will be a nasty wake up call.
The media has reached the point and sunk to the level where they are an actual real and present danger to America, the country they in their gross ignorance and infantile whims, would instruct and lead.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Did you guys notice Nancy's mouth? At first, her lips were kind of puckered and pooched, but when the President started to talk about Iraq, I would have sworn she was working to get a piece of meat out from between her teeth.
I half expected to see her stick a fingernail in there and pry it out. It was especially funny in contrast to Dick Cheney's extraordinarily sober and still face. There were several minutes of the speech that I didn't really hear for watching that mouth move around.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
...not only was Pelosi working her mouth like she was trying to masticate a chunk of the old Sizzler special she had for lunch, she was blinking like a dying fluorescent light.
I guess some staff lackey told her about her disturbing vacant stare and she has overcompensated. Perhaps the NSA could check the tape and see if Nancy was sending morse code messages.
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"We can all do our part to save the planet by dying." - R.E. Finch
"I guess some staff lackey told her about her disturbing vacant stare and she has overcompensated."
That reminds me of this comment by Robert Shaw:
"The thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes after you, he doesn't seem to be living until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white. . . ."
I dunno, I see the similarity....
...call it "Mother-in-law Barbie".
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"We can all do our part to save the planet by dying." - R.E. Finch
she bought a generic, one size fits all, $19.99 pair at Wal Mart. Actually she sent a lackey to buy them for her.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
I agree with your analysis. Bush presented his position on Iraq better than he did when he gave his special address to the nation a couple of weeks ago.
drivel is that even if we used all of our annual corn crop for ethanol, it wouldn't even come close to replacing our dependence on gasoline. All this ethanol drive is going to do is drive up inflation, as corn prices already are way up, which means higher meat expenses too.