Wednesday, February 02, 2005

State of the Union

Oh my God! How did Bush get re-elected?
Tonight is the State of the Union address. He (Bush) wants to lower our dependency on foreign oil by pumping money into nuclear power and "clean coal", not to mention dirty hydrogen. He wants to change immigration laws to allow "temporary guest workers" in, while keeping drug lords and terrorists out. (Unlike now, where we apparently want drug lords and terrorists 'in'.) He wants to "fix" Social Security by allowing personal accounts to "young Americans". It gets better, he wants to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriages and ban embryonic stem-cell research. (The Republicans may be standing and applauding, but the Democrats have turned to each other and started talking amongst themselves.)
Finally, at forty minutes into his speech, the President get to the issue of terrorism, announcing that he will continue to fight them wherever and whenever until they are defeated. Part of this will be accomplished by more military spending. But, this will also be accomplished by Bush continuing to forge international alliances in this on-going effort to eradicate tyranny in the world. (His words, not mine.) (He also said that "The advance to freedom leads to peace." because free people love each other, making me wonder why there are so many killings in the U.S. every year.)
I'm really wondering which phrases are code for "invading Iran" and "draft"? How can we expect Syria to be the only place that we put the thumbscrews to? He did call Iran the largest haven and supporter of terrorists in the world. This after saying that we will do anything to eliminate tyranny...let me do the math.
At least the President is finally wearing the red power tie that he should have worn during the election. And while I'm feeling a bit congradulatory, let's all stand and give the President a rousing "O" for not saying 'erections in Iraq'.

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