I orignally had no intention of watching this, by my attractive lawyer wife wanted to play the SOTUS drinking game, so I taped it for her and we watched it an 1 1/2 hour behind schedule, (with a necessary break for the Daily Show). I decided it was the perfect opportunity to break a blog-drought, so here goes....(Admittedly, the snark to deep thought ratio is much higher than usual)
Well, its early on and already Bush is promising to make the tax cuts permanent and cut the deficit in half by 2009 (next up, a donut that will magically reduce your gut). Ahh, that's how he's doing it, he's eliminating more than 150 government programs that don't fulfill substantial priorities...like Social Security, for example.
A shout out to education...now we're expanding NOCLB to high schools, no mention of adding any money (after all there's a major deficit you know). Good news, he's increasing the size of Pell Grants (the bad news of course this probably means, he's decreasing the number of Pell Grants awarded).
Wow, he just managed to weave in small business, women and minorites benefiting and frivolous asbestos claims into the same sentence. (Yes, I can see it now, somewhere in Ohio there's a young entrepeneur all ready to open shop and hire lots of women and minorites, except for those damn asbestos claims!!) Anyway, W. gets 5 points for managing such an impressive pander-scapegoat combo.
Next up, W. promises a "comprehensive" health program, but I'm not really paying attention since its clear he doesn't plan to spend a dime on any of it and it will the last you'll hear of it until next year's SOTU.
I'm trying not to laugh as he says "environmentally sensitive energy"...which translates as "safe, clean, nukular energy" ...now I've lost it... It's followed up by a laundry list of alternative fuels that he will continue to underfund, but provide a fig leaf for ANWR. (Of course, there's a great trade-off to be made, ANWR for a serious green energy policy, but I highly doubt any Dem is imaginitive enough to propose it...and I'll stop reliving my days as an espiring Environmental Policy wonk and move on now...).
Now he's talking about updatiing "archaic" institutions. Its gotta be Social Security...
[Sorry, the rest of this post somehow got lost in cyberspace....]
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