State of the Union

Here it is, the last 40 minute monologue of President Bush. I'm expecting much ado about nothing.

9:10- Congratulates himself and congress for failing to meet the challenges presented to them over the past 7 years.

9:12- "We must trust people with their own money." Indeed, the guiding philosophy of the Bush administration.

9:13- Apparently he trusts people so much with their own money that he believes the Federal government should piss away another $150 billion.

9:15- Surplus in 2012? Government must balance budgets? Are these words coming from the administration that increased the federal debt over $3 trillion?

9:17- Nice to see the president take a stand against earmarks. Too bad they're such a small part of the bloated budget.

9:19- The president throws out some good ideas on healthcare. Too bad they have no chance of seeing the light of day.

9:21- The old, sleepy Ted Kennedy and young-looking Barack Obama are an odd couple.

9:23- LOL, MSNBC cuts to Secretary Gutierrez when a Latin American country is mentioned.

9:24- Democracy leads to a better life? Tell that to the Iraqis and Afghans.

9:26- Nice cutaway to Dingell taking a nap.

9:27- Alright, energy socialism! First we'll throw billions of dollars at inefficient and unclean sources of energy, then we'll throw some money at other countries to buy these technologies. Oh billions of dollars...

9:28- What the hell is "critical basic research" in the physical sciences?

9:29- Once again, the ugly head of social conservatism shows itself...

9:31- What is Nancy Pelosi reading?

9:33- So the president asks the congress to come up with a solution to entitlement problems and the Democrats don't applaud. What the hell do they want him to say?

9:35- President Bush endorses the Dennis Kucinich foreign policy of peace as he describes the two wars he initiated and, of course, continues to prosecute.

9:38- My favorite thing about this president is that he throws around words like freedom and liberty. Apparently, voting itself is all that is required for a society to be "free."

9:39- When were programs distributed at State of the Union addresses? There must be damn good ads in there, because every Democrat in the room is leafing through them.

9:46- Shot of random Democrat giving a massive yawn. Awesome!

9:47- Of course, the 20,000 troops coming home were added last year. What a sad excuse for a drawdown.

9:50- Good luck defeating a tactic

9:54- I wonder how many of these plots were actually realistic and not just pipe dreams.

9:55- "If you don't pass this bill to phonetap Americans and protect companies who broke the law, your children will die."

9:57- Lovely, promoting socialism abroad.

10:02- 52 minutes later, we finally learn that the state of our union is strong! Who could have saw that coming?

Final thoughts: glad it's over.