A great contrast for the mid-terms

It was a pretty good speech. George W must have been looking at Lex’s page over the last couple of days. He spoke strongly and passionately about winning the war in Iraq. He correctly identified our enemy as “extreme Islamist”. He noted that we must be weaned from foreign oil.

However, the best part of the whole thing was watching the powerless DemoRATS sit on their hands during such great applause lines as:

“There is no peace in retreat.”
“Fellow citizens, we are in this fight to win, and we are winning!”
"Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy."

The president noted that SSgt Dan Clay, a US Marine recently killed in Iraq, knew what honor was, something that has escaped John Murtha and host of other DemoRATS recently. What was Murtha doing during the extended applause for SSgt Clay’s wife and parents? Working the Times crossword? Booing? Practicing the specious argument that he supports the troops but not the mission?

The president offered his most clearly understood explanation of the NSA eavesdropping program to date. As he did so, the camera caught Shrillary sitting with a bucktoothed smile and, except for the jiggling jowls, looking reminiscent of fat Teddy as she shook her head “no” – the current response of DemoRATS for nearly every proposal. Apparently DemoRATS are all for not connecting the dots before the next attack on America.

As the president noted the four year economic expansion as a result tax cuts, the visual was unmistakable. The Republicans were cheering and hooting in the aisles. The DemoRATS sat looking like puny sourpusses wanting to throw an anchor overboard to slow a surging economy lest the president get some measure of credit and begging for a tax increase. After all who better to spend your hard earned money – you or DemoRATS?

Then there was the DemoRAT response. All negative. No solutions. Just a litany of how fouled up America and Americans are. Section 3, Article III of the US Constitution requires that the president, “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient”. I cannot put my finger on that part of the Constitution that states “equal time will be provided for an opposition response.” I’m glad they did it though. It was a great contrast between a party with forward looking ideas and one that has only one idea of its own, remain stagnant by opposing every other idea.