He seems to be halfway through, and I am already drawing a map of my backyard so I know where I have buried my wallet. He does not realize that Congress can not spell fiscal responsibility, let alone understand it.
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My SOTU address predictions: Prediction
My SOTU address predictions:
Prediction #1- Bush, with the gleeful support of all the ‘fiscal conservatives’ in congress, will propose mammoth new spending programs, forgetting once again that they are fiscal conservatives.
Prediciton #2- Anything that is not a textbook example of profligate spending on an unneeded social program will be assailed by Democrats as raping the social security trust fund. Everything else (drug benefits for the geezers, etc.) will be assailed as not fully funded, proof that Bush is not a compassionate conservative.
Prediction #3- Anything Bush says or does not say about Enron will be determined to be proof of his complicity in the scandal by the idiots on tv.
Prediction #4- Democrats and Republicans will be united on the war on terrorism, and Hillary will have fat calves.
Prediction #5- At least once after the speech, Chris Matthews will gush how much Bush has grown, and then attempt to compare him favorably to someone who normally churns my stomach (2-1 odds it is John F. Kennedy, 4-1 it is FDR, 8-1 Bill Clinton).
Prediction #6- Gephardt will appear nasal and whiny in his response.
Prediction #7- Chuck Schumer and Bob Toricelli will clap as loud or louder than most Republicans.
Prediction #8- The most contentious issue discussed tonight will be National Missile Defense. This will be the one issue to get the pundits and the leftists (pat Leahy, etc.) really hopping mad, and they will scream that Bush is trying to use the war on terrorism to advance Star Wars. Maureen Dowd will have a tizzy in her next column. At least one person will point out that the World Trade Center was not destroyed with a missile.
That is it…
Go vote for Little Green
Go vote for Little Green Footballs at the Second Annual Weblog Awards. He can be found down the way under the heading “Best Weblog About Politics.”
New link for Kesher Talk,
New link for Kesher Talk, who promises discussions on Judaism, Jewish culture and politics, and Middle East Affairs. Plus he linked yours truly. Check his site out though, as you will find things that others have missed.
SHOCKED! OUTRAGED!! APPALLED!!! Those were
SHOCKED!
OUTRAGED!!
APPALLED!!!
Those were the reactions from Margaret Carlsonand the rest of the demagogo-pundits in the national media last week when Karl Rove stated matter-of-factly that the American people think Republicans will handle the war on terrorism better than Democrats.
Crass!!
How Partisan!!!
Exploiting 9/11 for Political Gain!!!
The latest ABC news/ WaPo poll shows that when asked the question “Which political party, the (Democrats) or the (Republicans), do you trust to do a better job…?”
Handling national defense and the military budget: Democrats- 27%, Republicans- 63%
Handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism: Democrats- 23%, Republicans- 62%
Washington, where scandals are created by observing facts and telling the truth.
Al Sharpton was just on
Al Sharpton was just on Hannity and Colmes. The vapid delivery and insipid nature of his comments nearly caused my brains to leak out my ears. However, I did learn that the good Rev. Al has set up a legal action for Enron employees, and good ole Johnny Cochran will be leading the charge. Yeehaw!! Superbowl schmooperbowl. If the prospect of those two clogging up our legal system for months and getting daily coverage on the cable networks doesn’t get you motivated to pay your cable bill for a couple of months, nothing will.
I will leave it up to Will Warren to come up with words that rhyme with 401k and acquit.
In an unrelated note, Colmes hinted that the detainees at Camp X-Ray might be suffering cruel punishment because you can’t get good bagels in Cuba.
The Chicago Tribune on Enron
The Chicago Tribune on Enron and Campaign Finance Reform:
They gave to some 71 senators and 188 House members. They gave some $600,000 to George W. Bush. And the Bush administration has plenty of top officials with Enron ties–including Army Secretary Thomas White, a former company executive; chief economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, a former consultant; and political adviser Karl Rove, who owned a lot of Enron stock.
By now, though, former chairman Kenneth Lay must be wondering why he bothered.
The company stood to make a lot of money from the Kyoto treaty on carbon dioxide emissions, but the president rejected it. Enron lobbied Congress to change the tax laws so its foreign subsidiaries could conceal their debts, and Congress refused. Lindsey, asked to do an analysis of the damage that an Enron bankruptcy would do to the economy, concluded it was nothing to worry about.
And when the meltdown finally began, all the people who had gotten help from Enron turned a deaf ear to its pleas for help. Lay phoned Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to ask for help in preventing a downgrade of Enron’s bond rating. Evans recalls, “I listened to him and told him thank you very much.”