Given the way things are going, the Shrubbery should be able to deliver the shortest State of the Union address ever on Monday – “Everything sucks – thank you and whatever.”
I would think that any attempts to find any accomplishments is severely limited by the writers’ strike. Maybe he’ll just re-run last year’s address and hope no one notices. I guess we could hope for a State of the Union blooper reel.
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The state of the union is strong. We have many challenges and we are overcoming them. The Democrats must help us do what needs to be done, and I ask the American people to tell them to give us the tools we need to solve problems. Let me remind the congress that they have not signed important spending legislation that I need right now.
Thank you and good night.
…don’t forget “Our brave young men and women in uniform have turned the tide in Iraq. Much remains to be done, but we have the suiciders and Ismlamofascists on the run and the soverign democratically elected goverment of Iraq is making great strides. Yet – both at home and abroad – Americans are about to die. We must continue to be afraid, very afraid.”
…ok, so maybe I over-paraphrased some of it just a bit….
I wouldn’t bet either of your money that those statements won’t show up on the transcripts from Monday’s speech. He’s essentially been giving the same speech since he’s been in office.
You guys forgot the “uhhhh…. uhhhhhh…. the uh… the union… the uh state of the uhhhh….” accompanied by a blank stare as he sways slightly from side to side. Then there will be the head tilt, the faint hula jaw movements, the sudden weirdly placed chuckle and finally the head bob over the podium as he tries to finish his sentence.
God, I am so tired of this little creep. We will be hosing out the White House and the environs long after he’s gone.
I don’t think the earpiece he wears is properly fitted which gives him vertigo and he keeps trying to clear the pressure in his ear, like he was in a descending aircraft. Of course, hearing voice in his head is not new for him, with or without an earpiece.
ellroon, it takes a few seconds each time they activate the device in the back of his suit before the preznit can engage in even semicoherent speech.
Oh for the accidental battery discharge ….
it will be about Iraq and how brilliant we were in starting the surge one year ago……
george yes you are brilliant, now go away
Well, DC, the Iraqi parliament, in deference to the sensitivities of the Kurds, did manage to design and approve a new Iraqi flag, which the Sunnis hate, oh, yes, the also passed a bill that allows Baath party members to reapply for their jobs – after they turn themselves in and are thoroughly investigated by an interior ministry that hates them.
All kinds of progress, if you are a flag manufacturer.
In all due respect, weren’t Iraq’s Republicans the Sunnis?
Or rather, the Ba’ath…
I don’t say this to justify how things are being done at all, but to say we need to figure out from this example how not to create similar problems when we must clean house.
State of the Onion speech = good drinking game opportunities.
As a party the Baath were secular, normally because their membership represented a minority religious view [Sunni in Iraq and Alawites in Syria], and nationalistic. They talk a lot about republic but generally govern as hereditary dictatorships through clan and tribal ties.
The Sunnis would view this as another insult because of their ties to the Baath Party, an extension of de-Baathification if you will.
As for our problem, it will be quite similar. Attempting to remove the Republican diehards from the government will be used as another excuse to blame the Democrats for something. There is no way to avoid it. The claim will probably be on religious grounds, rather than political, just like Iraq, i.e. we not are ridding the incompetent Republican appointees from the Justice Department because they are unqualified for their positions, but because they are Christians.
I can’t imagine the pain of sitting through it sober, Jill. Since I don’t drink anymore, I don’t listen.