State of the Union 2007 - if you aren't drinking, you're probably crying

[threeplusfire]

Did Shrub really just say "we need to balance the federal budget" in the State of the Union? The man who took us from a government in the black to a government with the worst debt in our history?

Oh. My. God. The audacity. The audacity of this man saying our commitment to Social Security is a "duty of conscience." The audacity of this man saying that we should be committed to the education of our children. Affordable health care? Is he joking? These are issues Shrub doesn't give a damn about. His idea that $4,500 a year would mean a family of four could afford health insurance is so cracked out I think I stopped breathing. Whiskey tango foxtrot?

Let me tell you doubling the Border Patrol isn't going to do shit. I wonder if he really believes in this temporary worker visa program. Clean coal technology, bio-diesel, reducing gasoline use... Aww, he still can't really say nuclear to save his life. Clearly, he is making a lot of concessions in this speech and you can see it makes him queasy.

Oh he wants his judges. Hahah he has a duty to nominate qualified judges but he sure doesn't do that.

Here we go, addressing the Iraq war - fuck you fuck you fuck you and your fear mongering. This makes me so angry I can't even verbalize it. This is not a damned Crusade! Nice digs at Iran, bucko. Twenty thousand more soldiers, fuck. You know, if you want this so bad, you send your daughters, the kids of your golfing buddies, your wife, your brother... I support my damned troops. I don't support you, your cracker jack plans or your war on terror bullshit. You've made it so it is almost impossible to address these issues with your rhetoric, your fear mongering, your bombast and blindness. You've only made others hate us more.

You don't give a fuck about Belarus, poor people, Dafur or African kids with AIDS, Shrub. You know it, and I know it. I'm sure your speechwriter thought it would make you look good though.

Good lord Dikembe is tall.

(My Middle East peace policy is as follows: since no one can play nicely or share, no one gets to have it. Several thousand years and multiple civilizations is too long for this insanity. You can build oil derricks with robots on a big ocean of radioactive glass. Then we will resettle everyone on different planets with only stone tools.)

Laura Bush is looking especially Stepford tonight. Cheney looks like a vulture, or perhaps the Emperor from Star Wars. That man scares me. Why does everyone dress so badly at these things? Hillary has a Marge Simpson-esque strong of pearls, which is kind of charming in a weird way but still bizarre. Shrub picked a bad tie for this thing. I can see lots of people not clapping. I can see a lot of grim faces in the ranks. But it is nice to see his cheering section is small this time around. (And I just howled with laughter watching all those Congresswomen run for the bathroom.)

Comments

[melebeth]

I can't watch it. I read the text after it's over, because if I watch it I end up throwing things at the television and scaring the dog.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I really wish I had been taking shots. A shot for every time he said something that made me yell would have rendered me trashed in short order!

[n-o-m-i-c.livejournal.com]

Why do you hate America so much?

;)

Dikembe made Laura look like a midget. +10 pts

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Because I'm a godless heathan. :P

Oh man! Was I the only one hoping he would pick her up and dangle her over the railing?

[n-o-m-i-c.livejournal.com]

Completely! Although she probably would have been really grumpy about it; she didn't look like she'd gotten her usual megadose of valium today.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

She did look really, really cranky up there.

[patchwolf.livejournal.com]

The man who took us from a government in the black to a government with the worst debt in our history?

When was the US in the black? From my memory, the US has always had a deficit in the order or trillions of dollars...

You can build oil derricks with robots on a big ocean of radioactive glass.

You can, but why would you? It's not a renewable resource.

As for the rest of it, did you really expect anything different?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Bill Clinton had the budget balanced by the end of his last term. Under Clinton, the United States had a projected federal budget surplus for the first time since 1969!

I was being infinitely sarcastic about the oil derricks.

Half the fun of politics is attempting to retain my ability to be shocked.

[patchwolf.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I think we're talking about different sides of the same coin.

Yes, the federal budget was in the black from 1998-2001 inclusive -- which it hasn't been since 1969. In that respect you're right.

But I'm right, too. The US has had a national debt since 1835. President Andrew Jackson was the last one to balance the budget AND pay the national debt in full. In the last 172 years, the national debt has risen to over $8 trillion dollars. It's slightly lower if you adjust for inflation, but it's still bloody close to $8 trillion.