DISCLAIMER: BY the standards of Keith Olberdouche, Pissy Mathews, Bobby Squiggy Gibbs et al, Lex is a racist, Nazi, hatemongering, bitter clinging, conservative Neanderthal. But we don’t care what those people say, besides who, in their right mind, would name a kid et? Even in the movie the letters were capitalized. I think Mr. & Mrs. Al need a visit from child protective services for their minimalist lower case spelling of proper names BS that is wrecking the self esteem of young ET.
The State of the Union talk is tonight. Fortunately the OSU vs. Purdue game starts tonight at 8pm on ESPN. Watching it will be a much better use of your time, even if you couldn’t care less about any basketball game that starts before March. The talk is a worthless waste of the nation’s time. Even if the entire Supreme Court get’s up and walks out 4 minutes into the speech, it will not be worth the 90 minutes of valuable time wasted that you’ll never ever get back.
Believe it or not in a day and age when sanity ruled, the SOTU was written out by hand and mailed to congress. I think we ought to return to that form. We don’t need some human lording over our elected officials, the Supreme Court and the JCS, as if he were some kind of supreme maximum leader. We don’t countenance such things in the US, or at least we didn’t. The executive is co-equal to the Supremes and our state elected officials, one of three equal branches of government. As such, given the current form of the SOTU, each branch ought to receive equal time at the podium.
The military is sworn to protect the constitution, not the president. The JCS shouldn’t be in the building at all for what has degenerated into a 90 minute political infomercial for the president’s political agenda.
But the SOTU does much more damage than the 90 minutes of wasted tv while the president drones on and on (or in P-BO’s case, and on and on and on and on like Castro trying to convince the Cubans they have the best health care system in the world). After the show, all manner of pundit and pol will be telling us what the president meant when he called us all a bunch of bitter clingers. Oooops, he probably won’t bring that up again tonight. But they will be telling us all what every phrase and pause meant.
This is the perfect case for returning to the SOTU being mailed in. We could all read it and draw our own conclusions. Or in Grand Nan Pelosers case, just pass it so she can find out what’s in it. And in P-BO’s case the MSM will be drooling all over themselves when they tell us how presidential P-Bo looked as his head swung left to right not missing a word on the teleprompter without which he’d sound like “Professor Irwin Cory trying to explain the infield fly rule in Farsi” (lifted from the great Dennis Miller rant in the post under). Turn down the sound and watch. As P-Bo’s head swings from side to side with the perfect rhythm of a metronome on a piano of a beginner playing Hot Crossed Buns, he looks more as if he's watching tennis than describing the state of the union.
Then there will be the forced stage craft of the Dems and Reps being co-mingled in the crowd. This is a perfect set up for a fist fight. I’m still childish enough to bring a packet of tacks in my pocket to the show. The first time Chuckles Schumer stands up to applaud the president, I’d put three or four of them on his seat.
There is a thing called natural segregation. It happens in every lunch room and cocktail party in America. People naturally sit with people they like, agree with and have the most in common. It’s not racism. Blacks do it as well. It’s called “natural segregation” because it happens naturally. Watch at your next party. Except for the one Quagmire type from the show Family Guy who chats up some gal, the party always seems to break down by men and women. Walk into any high school cafeteria and look around – natural segregation at it’s most obvious.
I’d rather see these guys sitting across an aisle from one another shooting spitballs at each other than I would see a bunch of phony baloney Kumbaya BS. It reminds of the “My good friend from NY…” BS line every Pol worth his salt has perfected to describe someone he can’t stand. It is phony. Everyone knows it is phony. Sit across the aisle from one another thinking of creative ways to shoot each other the bird. Or pull a Barney Frank and pretend to be reading something while the president talks.
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In Feb 2009 the president showed up in Peoria, Illinois and said that CEO Owen of Cat Tractor would began hiring employees if the stimulus package was passed in congress. Reports MsNBC,” Owens seemed to back away from Obama's assertion that the Caterpillar CEO had promised him he would rehire some of the laid-off workers if Congress approves a sweeping stimulus bill. The company has struggled with lower demand amid the global economic downturn. When asked to explain the difference between Obama's and Owens' statements, Caterpillar spokesman Jim Dugan said, "perhaps there's some nuance." (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29170141/).
In Nov 2010 congress’ approval rating was 11%. It is now 26%. Obama’s “congeniality” rating is above 50% but the polls show that 60+% of those polled believe America is on the wrong economic track. For good reason we should not expect a SOTU address that is honest and credible. We should expect nuances. We should also expect those in attendance to feign great approval or disapproval depending on their political affiliation. Review the SOTU from 2010. The disrespect for each other was also splattered across the Supreme Court members as they sat there being gored. In November the dye was cast. The president and his supporters have negative credibility. The nations CEO’s are the voters and these voters are not interested in more speeches, lies, or cordially referred to “nuances”. In Texas they would say of this president,” Big hat, no cattle” and I would add,” No credibility”. OSU and Purdue tonight should be a good one. The Griffin.
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