Drunkblogging the State of the Union Speech
5:41PM Welcome to Super Union Address CCXXIII! It’s the unofficial relaunch of the President’s official reelection campaign, following the officially unofficial kickoff in Kansas last month, which topped off the President’s unofficially official year-long campaign that began when the GOP House was officially sworn in almost 13 months ago.
I think even the non-drinkers are ready to raise one right about now. Officially.
5:42PM
5:43PM Dear Anderson Cooper:
It really isn’t necessary to announce in a stage whisper that the President is on his way.
Love,
-VodkaPundit.
5:47PM “The President is resonant on this.”
Wise words, my idiot liberal friend.
5:48PM Sorry, meant to attribute that last quote to Paul Begala, not to my “idiot liberal friend.”
Or did anyone notice the typo?
5:53PM In honor of the First Lady’s attendance tonight, I’m drinking martinis and snacking on a stack of thick-sliced crespone salami big enough to clog the Chunnel.
Don’t think I’m kidding you, either.
5:57PM There’s Gabby Giffords. Brave lady, incredible recovery. I’m curious why she chose to resign now, instead of months or a year ago — or keep at it and run for reelection next year. Either option I listed makes more sense to me than the path she chose, but that doesn’t take away from her struggle.
5:57PM Here come the Supremes — but how many?
5:58PM Justice Altio seems to have recused himself from tonight’s campaign rally.
5:58PM When Wolf Blitzer says Djibouti, I get a thrill up my leg.
5:59PM The First Lady looks like great.
6:00PM Here comes the cabinet. I haven’t seen that haircut on Hillary since 1993. Or anywhere else since 1973.
6:03PM Tonight’s debate-prep carboloading brought to you by Freddy’s Frozen Custard. I ordered the Classic Triple, large fries, and a large shake, and might not be eating again until lunch on Thursday.
6:04PM We’re going to be hearing a lot tonight about Warren Buffett’s secretary, who is smart enough to work for one of the smartest men in the world, but too stupid to hire herself a decent tax accountant.
6:06PM One more time, for the slow kids reading this. And by “slow kids,” I mean”Democrats, liberals, and damn-fool progressives.”
Payroll taxes are taxes you’ll get back tenfold, in the form of benefits. Income taxes — which you probably don’t pay, because you’re only marginally employable — pay for everything else Washington does, which means they’re mostly flushed down the toilet.
Please remember that when talking about overall tax rates. Not that you will, you willfully-ignorant statists.
6:07PM My embargoed copy of the speech shows that Obama will open with a shootout to the troops he forgot to negotiate a longer presence for in Iraq.
6:10PM Joe Biden is holding a very large yellow envelope. They told him it has coupons for Chee-tohs in it.
6:12PM “Last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base…”
Isn’t it Joint Base Andrews now?
6:12PM Nice shout out to the military’s mission in Iraq, which Obama opposed.
6:13PM Osama dead. Good.
6:14PM “These [military] achievements are a testament… ”
Honestly? It’s a pretty quiet year, militarily. So what’s the angle?
We need to “follow their example.” It’s the militarization of the American Government.
Hold me. I’m scared.
6:14PM Bad sign: Biden already looks sleepy.
6:15PM “We can do this. I know we can because we’ve done it before.”
Not with ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, the Vengeful EPA, and permanent trillion-dollar deficits, we haven’t.
6:16PM “The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive.”
Yes, yes it is.
6:16PM “The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive.”
Yes, yes it is.
6:16PM “The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive.”
Yes, yes it is.
6:17PM “We have to reclaim” American values.
Well what the hell you been doing the last three years, buster?
6:18PM Whose policies led to the lending crisis in 2008?
6:19PM Three million new jobs in 22 months. Part-time, low-wage McJobs. Meanwhile 700,000 Americans have left the workforce out of despair.
6:20PM “The state of our union is getting stronger.”
“I will oppose any effort to return to old policies…”
Framing the election, as expected.
“No, we will not go back.”
6:20PM “A blueprint for an economy built to last.”
Um… subsidies?
6:21PM Some said Detroit ought “to die?” And what did some others say? That “Detroit ought to be given big blocks of gold and unicorns?”
6:22PM “The American auto industry is back.”
Well, it’s back in the sense that American taxpayers are still losing money on it. But OK.
6:22PM We’ll get rich selling Masterlocks to people with very little property to protect!
6:23PM “We should start with out tax code.”
Amen. We have an amazingly corrupt tax code.
6:24PM “No American company should be able to avoid paying taxes by moving jobs overseas.”
A “basic minimum tax.”
An AMT for business? That ought to go swimmingly.
6:25PM OK, so he wants to make the tax code fairer by filling it with more preferences. Am I missing something?
6:25PM Eric Cantor looks like a shark with frickin’ laser beams.
6:27PM Toledo! Chicago!
I’m reminded of the radio version of Huey Lewis’ “Heart of Rock’n'Roll,” which featured dubbed-in shout-outs to cities in local markets.
6:27PM Toledo! Chicago!
I’m reminded of the radio version of Huey Lewis’ “Heart of Rock’n'Roll,” which featured dubbed-in shout-outs to cities in local markets.
6:29PM “Think about that,” that America has jobs going unfilled because workers lack decent educations.
Is it a rallying cry to take on the teachers’ unions?
Um… no. Duh. What was I thinking?
6:30PM Community colleges should be “community career centers.”
Hearing the President of the United State talk about community colleges fills me with meh.
6:31PM Debbie Wasserman-Schultz looks bored. Her body man must have forgotten to hand her the crumpled piece of tinfoil before the show.
6:32PM “Teachers matter.” So let’s give schools more money. “In return for passion.”
“That’s a bargain worth making.”
Actually, that’s a crock of horseshit. But you knew that.
6:33PM Longer mandatory primary education? Why, we might have to hire more of those passionate teachers who aren’t preparing their kids for real-world jobs. It’s geeeeeenius!
6:34PM “It’s not enough to increase student aid.” “States must do their part” to spend even more money to increase student aid.
I’m so speechless I might have to turn in my blog and call it quits.
6:35PM DREAM Act time. Wake me when it’s over — I need the REM.
6:36PM “There are fewer illegal crossings” than when you took office, because there Are. No. Jobs.
6:37PM BTW, I’m no immigration hawk. I like Newt’s smaller DREAM-type plan. I like having a big, wide, welcoming gate — but there does need to be a gate.
6:38PM “Innovation is what America has always been about,” so let’s pass regulations to make more innovators.
I…
I have no words. This is the cheapest pandering I’ve seen in 30 years of watching cheap politicians.
6:38PM “Don’t let other countries win the race for the future!”
6:39PM A big promise to open more land & sea to oil production.
Great. Let’s approve some new refineries to go with it.
6:40PM More Solyndras, bitches! Give me more Solyndras!
6:40PM “We’ll be clean when the work is done. There’ll be Spandex jackets — one for everyone!”
6:42PM “I paid for your natural gas.” Give me more Solyndras. I got contributors with needs, people.
6:42PM I’m going to keep spending your money on my greenie friends.
6:43PM Where’s the plan to cut the deficit? Where is the promise to cut the regulations that are strangling job creation?
Everything tonight is spend, spend, spend — and we are broke. We are Greece broke.
6:44PM Wind farms on the Pentagon!
6:44PM Apparently, Navy ships are going to power our homes. Because that’s sane.
6:45PM Remember that the Democrats’ last plan to save energy move lightbulb production to China, to produce bulbs nobody wants.
6:46PM “During the Great Depression American built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.”
Ten years after 9/11, Ground Zero still isn’t rebuilt.
6:47PM “Nation-building right here at home.”
The “peace dividend” is going to pay for an awful lot of stuff, especially since we’re still at war.
6:48PM Mortgage relief! “No more red tape!”
Because that’s what DC does best: Reduce costs and red tape.
6:48PM I don’t have a mortgage, so can I get a cash rebate, or maybe just a “World’s #1! Homeowner” coffee mug?
6:49PM “I’ve order every federal agency to remove regulations that don’t make sense.”
Do they get to choose them themselves? Because if so, good luck with that.
6:50PM Can a farmer choose his own health insurance without someone looking over his shoulder? Because that would be cool.
6:52PM “I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poisoning!” Unlike Mitt Romney, who was last seen pouring a mysterious silver liquid directly an inner-city public school’s milk supply.
6:52PM No more bailouts!*
(*Green companies, unions, favored industries, and Democratic constituencies excepted.)
6:53PM He’s going to hire Columbo to get medical on some… rich people or something.
6:54PM He says we’re looking to “pay down our debt.”
Folks, Obama doesn’t have a plan to reduce our permanent trillion-dollar deficits, much less pay down a cent of debt.
6:55PM “When it comes to the deficit, we’ve agreed to… make choices.”
6:55PM The guy who just proposed a bunch of loopholes in the tax code, is railing against loopholes in the tax code.
6:57PM “Tax reform should follow the Buffett Rule… no less than 30%.”
6:58PM “You can call this class warfare all you want,” but I’m going to tax the bejeebus out of some robber barons.
6:59PM “Our way of life will only endure,” if we tax the bejeebus out of some robber barons.
6:59PM “Nothing will get done in Washington this year.”
From your lips to God’s ears, Mr. President.
7:00PM “The corrosive influence of money in politics,” says the man dedicated to raising almost a billion dollars for his campaign.
7:02PM I want to tell the Senate how to conduct its business, because the separation of powers is so 19th Century.
7:03PM Is Obama really campaigning against the “permanent campaign?”
That’s so David Axelrod it hurts.
7:04PM ObamaCare is privatization! War is Peace! Slavery is Freedom! Drunkenness is Sobriety!
7:06PM We must be getting close to the end, because he’s talking war again.
See, open with his (Bush-centric) successes in the War on Terror, then bookend the awfulness with his (Bush-centric) successes in the War on Terror.
7:06PM Hillary looks tired and maybe drunk. Theories, anyone?
7:08PM “I will take no options off the table” to prevent Iran from getting nukes.
Positively Bushian!
7:08PM Con… Neocon… Obamacon?
Where’s Andrew Sullivan when you don’t need him?
7:09PM Oh, and we’re repositioning our forces against China, because of the resets and the peacemaking.
7:10PM “America remains the one indispensable nation to world affairs… and I intend to keep it that way.”
Assuming China remains willing to fund all the rest of my stuff.
7:12PM “We’ve increased annual VA spending every year I’ve been President.”
As opposed to the vicious cuts Obama made everyone else endure.
7:14PM Obama is soaking up the Osama killing — and he should. He could have called an airstrike and gotten an iffy result. Instead he called in the SEALs, who took names.
That was a good call.
7:17PM “No one built this country on their own… we worked as a team… we get each other’s backs… as long as we are joined in common purpose.”
Well, there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of market economics right there — and it was the big close of a guy desperately trying to restart the economy.
So… good luck with that then, Mr. President.
7:17PM You want a wrap? OK, give me just a couple minute, I’ll give you a wrap.
7:28PM President Obama opened and closed with high praise — and well-deserved praise — for our troops. And he wasn’t wrong, near the end, to bask a little himself in the reflected glory of SEAL Team Six, for taking out bin Laden on his orders.
In between?
In between was nothing but promises to spend more, to regulate more, and to tax more. Nevermind that he can’t get any of his promises — threats? — through the GOP House.
What matters is the Long Game.
Obama’s Long Game is this: Double down on Big Government, and hope the GOP nominates someone he can vilify enough to make unelectable. Then — even though the election will have been decided on personality — he can ram though the rest of his Big Spending, Big Regulating, Big Taxing agenda, all based on a non-existent mandate.
But President Obama is a smart player, always with his eye on the long game. If he loses in the fall? Well, good luck to the GOP at actually repealing anything he accomplished in his first (and only) four years. Obama will, as this Progressive progenitors, have put another brick in the wall of statist. And that’s no small feat for a guy with his eye on the long game.
Margaret Thatcher called it “the ratchet effect” more than 30 years ago, and for good reason. If the last four years are allowed to stand, Obama will rank high in the progressive pantheon of Washington statists. If he gets another four years… even my drinking might become illegal, or, more likely, taxed punitively. You know, like most of the rest of the human experience.
Practically, tonight’s SOTU was a an endless serious of non-sequitur non-staters. Politically, it was a declaration of business-as-usual in Washington — which is more than any of us, at any tax bracket, can afford.
Between the debates this year and the SOTU, shouldn’t your bio read “enjoys the frequent lovely adult beverage”?
The “occasional” was always meant in jest.
Is it alcohol abuse if I spill my drink on the table? I can lick it up. Does the 5 second rule apply to spilled drinks, or is it waived in this case?
Stephen-
I must commend your valor, I tuned in about 20 minutes late and didn’t make it 5 minutes. Were you mainlining Gray Goose directly into your veins to handle this.
I caught wind it was His Initiative that we did all this Fracking for Oil and Gas this year. Was that the federally funded project in Brazil? I do not recall in the US any hydrocarbon work that Obama was for.
Possibly it was a Green project to capture methane from all the hot air rising from DC. Please, Please be his last State of the Campaign speeches.
I simply can’t stand the sound of the communist SOB’s voice, but I’ve been drinking all afternoon in anticipation of hearing the SOB’s last SOTU.
Waaaay smarter than me. I just started, so I’ve got some catching up to do.
Anyone who watched this speech knows that the Republican election plan—which is basically to call POTUS an anti-American communist trying to put the nation on food stamps (even though Bush put more on FSs)—is going to crash and burn, and badly.
The speech was as American as Apple Pie, and no amount of bleating by Newt Gingrich or Mitch Daniels or Mitt Romney, etc., can change that. I look forward to another 4 years of mature and principled leadership from President Obama.
Wonder, that was an excellent sarcasm down there. Now, if you were serious – I suggest you go back to your middle school and demand the principal to fire the teachers that “educated” you.
It is comforting to know that you get the kool-aid with your food stamps.
Mature … Leadership….
What pray tell WHAT FREAKING GAME WERE YOU WATCHING?
And I look forward to rounding communists, thoroughly vetting the government, thoroughly vetting all public universities, “reviewing” some broadcast licenses, reviewing some tax exempt organizations’ tax exempt status, auditing the LM-2s of a bunch of unions, making all public sector unions subject to the LMRDA, expelling a lot of illegal immigrants and replacing their stoop labor with that of a bunch of stupid lefty punks with degrees in Angry People Studies with large student loans. And hopefully somewhere along the way George Soros will have a 9mm brain hemmorrage. I don’t think you’ll enjoy the fundamental transformation that occurs after we restore a legitimate government.
Must be Stevie Wonder.
LOL, Nice fantasy world you live in!
Cynical…but no wonder.
Thank you. That was really funny.
I had a different strategy. I didn’t have the TV on that station until Obozo’s speech was over. The GOP response, however was pitiful. Just more of the same statist, class warfare stuff, but watered down. Wish they had Newt giving the GOP response instead!
And because nobody had the courage or the common sense to address the issue of worldwide Islamic expansionism, both at home and abroad, I put my time to good use blogging about the Counterjihad.
I haven’t had a drink in almost a decade, but if Mitch Daniels uses the GOP reply to announce he’s running, I swear I’ll tie one on tonight.
Don’t panic.
Mrs. Daniels might change her mind tomorrow and the campaign would be over.
But wouldn’t it be thrilling to see obama shake Mitch’s hand in a debate from a foot above him. Mitch would dominate the male 5’6″ and under demographic. I know my chest would swell with pride.
Not to speak of the demographic of mousy men who speak in near whispers.
and of course, accountants.
You convinced me. We should nominate Hulk Hogan.
Or we can draft Mitch and just pretend that we live in a world where appearances don’t matter.
What could go wrong.
You convinced me. We should nominate Kim Kardashian?
Now we found a compromise we can agree on.
Kim should be McRonney’s replacement when the ruling class shitcans their current loser.
Oh wait, does she hate conservatives enough?
is it true that warren buffet, whose secretary is the “grandmarshal?” of this shindig, and his rail companies made out like a true crony capitalists when the pipeline was shut down?
kudos to all those who can stomach this speech
Well, to be fair, Warren’s railroads only carry 75% of the oil that would otherwise be carried by the pipeline.
And the fact that everybody considers trasporting oil by rail to be more harmful to the environment than a pipeline, and of course, much more dangerous, really isn’t that big of a deal….unless you care about the environment or danger to humans and wildlife.
Am I a bad citizen for watching the Joan and Melissa marathon and reading along with Vodkapundit’s great snarks? *clinky* and thanks Stephen!
Should one be concerned if one discovers that one’s liver has seen a divorce lawyer?
I will be using the words ‘fairness’ and ‘equality’ for toasting tonight.
Of course we know that these words mean completely different things in the Marxist’s lexicon. ‘Fairness’ is a term for everyone with something having it expropriated and re-distributed to someone without the same thing. While ‘equality’ is to insure that anyone not allowed to drive in the reserved nomenkultura apparatchik lanes will be equally miserable.
The only legitimate meaning for “fair” is a place where prize hogs win ribbons.
You’re right – “fair” is a code word for taking money and resources from the productive and giving them to government officials and their cronies, under the pretext of helping the needy.
C’mon Merlot!
If I were the S.Ct. I would never attend this bleeps speeches anymore.
Between another episode of Hope-along Change-idy on the “serious” channels and In Like Flint on TCM, I’m thankful folks like you are willing to sacrifice yourselves for those of us with weaker stomachs…
BTW, Stephen, how long were you in Arcata (what years); and how much did that affect your career choices?
Fairness = drink!
Also “middle class” or “hard working Americans” = drink
Meechelle sporting the middle class garb
And away we goooooooooooo!!!
Ugh. Big drink.
Brian Williams on NBC doing his best to tamp down expectations
He looks jaundiced, or is it me?
No, it,s not you. He looks yellowish to me as well.
The first lady looks like she’s going to a dinner party. Nice dress, but not for SOTU.
Correct. And that would be atypical for FLOTUS how?
Michelle’s motto: Give me an occasion (any occasion) and I will dress inappropriately for it! No challenge too great!
Stephen: “a shootout to the troops”? You have to pace yourself.
I would vote for the shootout, if they got to shoot back.
Look at the way he hugs Giffords. Like a drinking buddy.
Nice job by Boehner introducing Obummer
Payroll taxes are taxes you’ll get back tenfold, in the form of benefits.
You mean our Social Security / Medicare tax will give you benefits worth the actuarial value of those contributions?
No.
D
Denise, don’t feel bad. I’m watching the hockey game and following Steve’s hilarious account. I can’t stand to look at or listen to the prez. I’m sorry if it’s disrespectful, but the lisp especially bothers me. Along with the affected cadence.
A “final salute” to our troops? WTF?? Like he’s not going to play that card during the campaign?
We’re watching a show on the making of “Saturday Night Fever”, which is a lot of fun. Just can’t watch Obama with that snotty raised chin and smug phrasing. I’ll read here for the highlights!
Tahleebahn?
3.3 seconds and he’s already mentioned Bin Laden.
The Tal-eee-bahn has been broken? Wait. What?
spike obmama
Vile, starting with “I killed Bin Laden”
One of the reasons that Marshall plan and the GI Bill worked is because every industrial country on earth lay in ruins after WWII except this one.
And Canada and Australia, but they were too small to compete.
I predict the word “Fairness or fair” will be heard at 100 times and also;
he will lie at least one hundred times, and he will ask for those he considers “rich” to pay a higher amount of taxes to make it more fair (more onerous than it already is) that the economy is improving while giving unreal examples that are mostly lies (just more of the above)!
I refuse to watch or listen to this liar since I despise them and Joe Wilson Congressman from South Carolina who worded “you lie” during one of Obama’s first SOTU speeches we all know we have a liar as a president and for that alone he must be removed, not to mention the disastrous policies he has doomed our country with…it is time for him to exit his job!
And you’re introducing at least fascism here. And if you don’t understand that, you are an idiot.
I hate it when he uses that whinny voice so full of false emotion.
and my liver hates me…
Too many events in too few days.
That annoying voice is poll tested, but is it real emotion when it comes from a teleprompter?
How to lie with statistics, the 2012 edition
Who’s counting the number of times he says “fairness” and “level playing field” and “Bushie dun it?”
Jobs? Wheres the jobs? Can you say XL pipeline?
Warren gets to haul the oil to the Texas Gulf with his choo choos. Lucky him. Soros owns some of the Burlington Northern too. Surprised? So was I.
No more outsourcing! New skills and values. No more night or cold. Merlot take me way!!!
Did he just say he cut the deficit by 2 trillion?
Fox had the camera on Geithner at that instant, and his eyebrows crinkled up in a puzzled manner, much as mine did.
Thats Democrat sleight of hand for money we chose not to spend – ergo – a cut.
McDonalds announced record profits today.
I’ll work with anyone who agrees with me. But oppose anyone who disagrees with me. Europe tried that in the 1920s and 1930s.
I decided to NOT watch the speech tonight because I want my TV to survive the night.
I am with you Dave. I turned it off. Had a few vodkas here and the 45 is within easy reach. I am afraid my big screen will not work well with a hole in it, and the wife would be displeased to say the least.
This ole Ms gal had two choices: run to the Dollar General for dog food or hang myself in the backyard. Just abhor that man and his attitude and his toadies. I calmed down on the drive back. Haven’t had bourbon in years, and not gonna let o get me started again!
Car manufacturing? Seriously? Come back to Detroit. That could work…
GM number one…
I won’t buy one. Got a 2008 GM car and need warranty work? Too bad – you have a ‘before restructure’ car – aka no warranty for you.
Seize the manufacturing! Carpe manufacturing!
Jobs back here…get Govt out of he way!
Detroit still exists? I thought the Lions and Tigers moved to Deerfield.
Masterlock is doing well because unemployed people are turning to burglary. Because your policies have failed.
New bourbon!
Make your products here and pay lots of money to have them shipped elsewhere!!
Are we going to use sail powered ships to carry them overseas?
SOLAR powered ships. It’s the Obama way.
– Leahy and he looks like a nun.
– I hate to see the Recession.
“I will go anywhere in the world and bow like crazy”
Amazing turn-out. I’m watching Dance Moms, far more based in reality than anything coming out of anyone’s mouth tonight, at least if they are based in DC. Will follow the speech via SG blogging.
Hey, Meester Tahleebahn, tahlly me banahnah. Daylight come and me wan go home.
That’s Funny!
I just blew my coffee all over my laptop.
Wonder what Jack Welch thinks of Obama’s tax breaks/subsidies ideas for companies that keep or move jobs back to US.
Let’s level the playing field against other countries that subsidize by subsidizing ourselves and adding more bureaucrats!
– bureaucracy to pretend to do something about China’s piracy.
Ahem. Create another bureaucracy (man, that’s hard to spell after a sip-or-two) in which to stash those loyal BHO supporters. The other agencies and closets they currently occupy are overflowing.
As Stephen likes to say, filled to the RIM with Dems (or something along those lines).
Going after China? Really? How many trillions have you borrowed from China?
– his campaign; when will he get to the Union and this year?
I watched Leahy pop a couple of pieces of gum in his face as he walked in. Drink dependence is easy to spot. Just don’t monitor me, ha-ha!
I made a mistake by picking fair…………
5:57PM Here come the Supremes — but how many?
Oh cool..Diania Ross is there too!!
– so what have you been doing for the past three years? (Like the way the Dems now claim the GOP has been in control for a year and a half; they were only sworn in 54 weeks ago.)
Seriously, I can’t even read the comments, way too painful. Anyone actually watching is either very troubled or doesn’t really understand the importance Dance Moms has to the future of America.
Dude, you’ve already got the teacher vote, stop pandering. Oh, forget it.
Just FYI, there’s a massive debate about whether or not the STEM student and job “crisis” is real or drummed-up. Most of the outcry has been based on a … wait for it … government study that a number of other sources are debunking.
Siemans. Wasn’t that the company that worked with the gov on the stuxnet virus to kill the own machines purifying uranium for the Iranians
I will honor my base. Public sector union employees! Teachers RocK! It’s about the children.
Let’s put the gangs where they belong…in high school!
REQUIRE kids to stay in high school??? How, with chains??
That’s how I like my Utopia- with lots of police.
Taken is on FX. You’re welcome
Amnesty here we come
Everyone needs to go to college? No. No, they don’t, actually.
I want to go to a Community Career Center. There aren’t any jobs, but a career…that sounds exciting. I want a career in government so it will last forever until I retire at 55 and then make really good money.
– because there are fewer jobs.
Ah, it looks like wage and price controls for higher education to control those ballooning government loans. I wonder if those well paid tenured Marxist professors will like that five year plan for the revolution?
I’m having a hard time laughing out loud hysterically, drinking at the same time, AND also typing. Maybe that’s because I didn’t go to college.
tear down regulations???LOL
thats is SO twisted
Amnesty for everyone right now. In time for the election so the can vote for me
finally, a president who has figured out how to control the border.
This strategy might work to control crime as well. If nobody has any stuff, there wouldn’t be any burglars, right?
Guess you aren’t watching it on ABC News. They have a peanut gallery shown in an inset. Their jabbering is really annoying!
Steve Jobs? Current tax code means Apple can’t repatriate $45 billion. Call for that change.
Oh, and Keystone Pipeline.
All out. All of the above. All for me, Me, ME!
yeah…lets get rid of cheap oil and gas and raise the cost structure for all our industrial needs with GREEN energy….because the green energy producers invest heavily in the democrat party! everyone wins but the citizens
Except for Soros and Petrobras in Brazil…pollution for Carnivale!
So difficult to listen to…Steve jobs…supporting innovation…offshore oil production…he never says anything based in any sort of reality. Back to Dance Moms.
Opening up “areas to drilling” is not the same thing as granting licenses to drill and refine, but let’s not quibble over details.
should be opening up areas to oil and gas exploration – sorry
Energy. Yes. Right after three years of obstructing energy extraction. All of the above strategies don’t include xl pipeline
oh the pandering hasn’t even begun
Just ask the workers at Solyndra et al.
America is watching this speech and will never consider looking down the road as to where he really wants
us to go. He’s just doubled down on Solyndra .
In other words, we’ll stick higher gas prices up your arse and you’ll like it. Yea to clean energy.
Anybody notice Debbie sitting next to FLOTUS. She was sporting an updoo to reveal a neck tattoo.
Shouldn’t Buffet’s railroads that carry all the oil be solar powered? Why doesn’t anybody have good ideas anymore?
Clean energy!! An US Government boondoggle brought to you by the DOD! Sounds inexpensive! / sarcasm
Ahhh, we’ve hit the “America needs to be fixed” portion of the program.
is it just me or is his delivery a bit more forced than usual? the breathy, faux-earnest emphasis on some words is driving me up the wall.
ditto…you explained it perfectly. He sounds like a bad high school thespian. I had to turn it off. He’s been doing the breathless thingy for a while now but this was on steroids. As you can see it’s hard to fake sincerity.
“The easiest way to save money is to waste less energy”
Perhaps someone should explain to this ignoramus the direct quantitative relationship between dollars and energy.
This guy can’t connect the dots between “fall down, go OBOOMa” and “gravity” so …
To anyone who read my last post, yes I turned it back on. But then I like to have a woman in heels and leather beat me with a whip. viciously.
Shouldn’t be hard to find in L.A. or La.
If Greece doesn’t have any money to spend anymore, isn’t it America’s responsibility to fill the void? I mean really, the spending has to go somewhere, why not here?
“In the next few weeks, I will sign an executive order mandating a windmill in every backyard!”
SPEND! SPEND! SPEND! Hoo Rah!!!!!
Bread and circuses for everyone!!!!!!!!
Spend our money twice!
I put my new light bulbs out in the sun during the day, but they still don’t give off much light.
Good one.
Have you tried the hand-cranked and/or foot-powered light bulbs? As long as you keep moving they throw 10-20-40 watts!
I’ll wait for the wind-powered light bulbs. I’m an environmentalist.
CNN international has their camera posted on the Republican side so that when Obama gets applause, you see the Democrats standing and cheering…not just once, but many times….
To make things worse, most of the closeups are ALSO of Democrats…
A $3,000 subsidy for everyone who refinances their home? That’s less than he gave away for clunkers!!! Shows how far the housing market has fallen.
Faulty medical devices? What? Nice milk joke
I’d really like to shove a windmil somewhere. Three guesses as to where that might be. Oh, and each guess costs $23,000,000.
no mercury poisoning except in flourescent lights!
I think he was trying to justify shutting down half of our coal fired power plans. For the children.
Money, money, money for everyone . . . if they’ll vote for me!!!
Can’t make bets with customer’s deposits? But why that doesn’t apply to Jon Corzine? (D-NJ)
More government jobs to investigate financial fraud? How many investigators are being added to investigate Fast & Furious?? Never Mind!
and I’m going to head this unit up with my tax fraud attorney general
Holder? Really? Eric is an accessory to murder and belongs in jail.
House did pass that you asshole.
Watch his face. He is VERY pleased with his own performance.
he went there. Buffets secretary. And…dead silence. Also seems like the teleprompter needs to be oiled. Getting stuck.
I cant stand it. I turned it back off and put the headphones on….listening to “Green grass and high tides forever”.
Beats the hell out of Barry’s version of ” Rainbows and Unicorns”.
Ye ha, a special DOJ unit to find fraud, by an Attorney General who can’t find out who authorized ATF gun smuggling south of the border. This boy is slick, no drama Obama, it’s the TODDI defense for the State of the Union: the other dude did it!
I am so P-R-O-U-D of our Pharaoh! Swoon…
Obama: “Just imagine what a world without unicorns would be like!!! We’re not going back to those unicorn-less days. Not as long as I have anything to do with it. No way. This is a taxpayer-funded message, and I endorse it.”
OK. Mark calendars. Set clocks. Commence countdown to 2012 election.
“You can call this class warfare all you want…”
Okey dokey
when will the realization that taxes are not income hit?
If you want to get rid of the breaks, simplify the code…flat tax.
This guy knows what “everyone is thinking” – sort of makes everyone else superfluous, doesn’t it?
If he broke it, does he have to buy it?
so, he wants to tax the beejebus out of the barons so he can give the money back to his unions, greenies..etc..,
He really makes me want to puke but that would be wasting my beer….
Let’s change the Senate rules – now that I’m president and my party is in control…that’s just a coincidence, though.
Hey guys, let’s tone down the rhetoric now that I’m the prsident and I’m up for re-election (just a coincidence)!
“Nothing will get done in Washington this year.”
maybe I could learn to like this guy.
Can we make it retroactive to 1960?
Did Biden just come out of sleep mode?
Biden is fading
No.
Hockey game’s over. What can I watch now?
with or without this congress “L’Etat, c’est moi.”
Obama money line:
“With or without this Congress, I will do whatever I want to do. I am the Ruler of America!!!”
the blueprint is perfectly clear
“shared responsibility” coupled with total chaos as exhibited by the dozens of entires by stephen trying to keep up with the smoke screens, strawmen, lies, fibs, misrepresentations, collectivist language, et al…
it will be very telling when the rebuttals reveal how much stomach the gop has for a death match
Whoa … Hillary?!
“ObamaCare is privatization! War is Peace! Slavery is Freedom! Drunkenness is Sobriety!”
Wow, It’s 1984 all over again!
Let’s give the Syrians a head-fake that we’ll back up with lip service. If the outcome in Syria is important to us, then why don’t we lift a finger?
“Hillary looks tired and maybe drunk. Theories, anyone?” Um, both?
Hillary…huffing the hairspray?
are hillary’s applause a little…sarcastic?
Hillary theory? If she stays away and plugs doesn’t, she’s the next vp.
Anyone that tells you that America is in decline will be wrong after January 2013!
Why does “Buffet Rule” assume that Buffet’s taxes are too low, and not that his long-suffering (and apparently well-compensated) secretary’s taxes are too HIGH?
OK, another swig of wine and this makes no sense. How about:
Why does the “Buffet Rule” assume that Buffet’s taxes should be higher, instead of the secretary’s taxes being lower?
Excellent point, one which we all need to make every time the libs make this argument.
“Hillary looks tired and maybe drunk. Theories, anyone?”
I’d be drunk, too if I worked for this guy and was “married” to WJC.
Theories? Huffing hairspray Hillary?
Jet lag. It takes forever to recover from it when you’re old.
Bookending speech with another tribute to the military. should be getting close to the end now. PLEASE!!!!
“America is back, and anyone who tells you otherwise is…” voting in November.
“…my advice to you is to start drinking heavily”
Good advice, thanks.
Good idea – ex-mililtary never go into law enforcement.
I am sorry, but this man is insane. He is pulling one-liners from the last 30 years. None of it applies to 2012. I re-mortgaged already. And WHY are the rates so low? More regulations to combat regulations? More hand-outs for teachers (unions) and construction (unions) and firefighters (unions)? He is living somewhere in 1968.
words fail me… it’s total garbage… all of it…
I don’t know – I think you expressed it perfectly.
Obama:
“Notwithstanding all that I’ve said the past three years in criticizing America and apologizing to my foreign friends for America’s failures, anyone who says America is not exceptional doesn’t know what they’re talking about. And this statement is gold, for the next 30 minutes anyway.”
I’m feeling pretty good, because it’s dead certain that nothing mentioned in this speech will happen.
Sounds like a kindergarten teacher. God save our S.E.A.L.’s
Stephen, thanks for taking one for the home team.
I was able to have a really enjoyable evening watching ‘In Like Flint’ on TCM and then coming over here to read your blog to bring me up to date on our Pander In Chief’s SOTU speech…you should be paid beaucoup bucks for having to sit through that drivel.
P.S. My liver thanks you as well
“I personally killed Bin Laden. The actual soldiers sort of helped, too. Thanks, sorta.”
–BHO
kinda cheesy and fake
And there’s no O in “team.”
– there is “me”, which gets us back to I, Obama!
I decided to watch WWII in color, a nice BBC production currently airing on PBS. At least it talks about when the US was great and I could use a little (a lot) of that right now instead of being lectured by a product of affirmative action who thinks we have 57 states and talks to corps(e)men.
Honestly, I couldn’t flick to a channel and not find this troglodyte on the screen and I couldn’t believe he was STILL talking at 9:56PM. Guess when you have a captive audience, you relish in it.
My god he’s annoying.
“Hillary looks tired and maybe drunk. Theories, anyone?”
easy
she has been drunkblogging obvi
I’m thinking the odds are pretty good that Spike joins the Seals before the next election and gives his convention acceptance speech in battle gear.
Spooky. You’ve tapped into his secret fantasy.
LORD HAVE MERCY!
– any bills, Do-Nothing President. If they ever get past Harry Reid, you will veto them, Dolittle.
Boehner: Obama will/has acted as if this is Year 1 instead of Year 4. Check.
Where has BHO been for the past 3+ years? Good question.
Even NBC can’t cover up the fact that this was a campaign speech.
Although Andrea Mitchell went to GREAT lengths to ream Romney about not releasing his tax returns UNTIL today. Pathetic.
– Speaker paler while Dolittle looks jaundiced. Liver? He must be drunk teleprompting too.
LOL
This is one sorry human being and the sorriest President in my lifetime. And I’ve been around for a while.
Thank God for drunk blogging. I couldn’t have gotten through SOTU without it. I kept the TV on mute. The sound of our President sends my wife into fits of apoplexy combined with streams of obscenities and quotes from the constitution. She’s right, of course.
– entourage just do a bow? Did they all drop their programs at once? Little Bread looks pleased with himself.
“Well, there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of market economics right there — and it was the big close of a guy desperately trying to restart the economy.
So… good luck with that then, Mr. President.”
Europe is the anchor now – America has its own problems and they are not divorced from Europe’s financially. If the economy revives in 2012 it’ll be more like a miracle than luck.
I WILL restart the economy. Blink. (Think “I Dream of Jeannie” from 1965.)
I WILL overcome Iran with the power of my personality. Blink.
I WILL hypnotize all watchers. Blink.
I WILL convince you “green energy” is cost effective. Blink.
I WILL institute a superior European economy with socialist underpinnings. Blink.
I AM the BEST PREZ EVAH. Blink.
Nobody should assume the economy will be in the pits in the fall. The Stock Market usually is the best leading indicator, about 6 months in advance. It’s had a good surge the last three months. If it’s still going in April/May, the brain-dead republican ruling class will be changing their party affiliations
Obama closes with an obscene analogy: just as soldiers work as a unit, obeying all legitimate orders to accomplish their mission and defend our country, we citizens and Congresspeople should shut up and just do what Obama wants. I’m disgusted.
Who the hell elected this maggot?
Sorry for such a coarse response to this address and the serial lies and half-witted utopian babble. But recently we lost a neighbor who stormed tne beach at Normandy and then went on to win medals for valor as he engaged the enemy for months thereafter. He, and others like him, did that so that one day we could squander our freedoms away to a charlatan like this? God, I hope not!
Watching Mitch Daniels look at us sideways. Who is the producer of this spot? Well, at least Bill Kristol can go back to focusing on the candidates who are actually in the race.
Yep: “Practically, tonight’s SOTU was a an endless serious of non-sequitur non-staters.”
I had the same experience. It was like listening to an English-as-a-Foreign-Language tape. I understood the words, but the message and meaning made no sense.
merciful grappa saved me from listening carefully all the trash
Well Gov. Daniels cured my insomnia. Are the R’s really trying to give this one away? He showing all the emotion of a dead fish – call the man a liar for God’s sake.
lol; agreed
although daniels said all “the right things,” he failed to correctly name the enemy– ronaldus magnus has been the only one who, in my lifetime at least, could communicate directly to americans simply and coherently, simultaneously ridicule the collectivists all while bypassing the media altogether
until someone first says that 1/2 of the country is under a spell of statism there can be little “coming together…”
until someone, instead of worrying about how the ‘independents’ will vote, actually draws a clear line in the sand and demands from the independents to stand on one side or the other
and on and on
Well, at least Mrs Daniels allowed Mitch the Mouse to give the speech.
He seems to have all the fire of McRomney doesn’t he?
– to go with the pap and crap.
So, Prez: flat tax, right? No?
Voc Ed, right? No?
OMG. Brian Williams is still talking. Is this true? Or have I simply done one too many Drunkblogging events?
So, I take it we’re still heading down the road to full blown communism?
“My God! It’s full of…. promises!”
So the re-election is off to a grand….whatever….I’m going to check my traps for dinner…WHAT???…So-Cal raccoons are high in protien and Trader Joe’s is lacking in the fresh meat selection as of late…DFG has nothing on me…
To paraphrase Bill Whittle. This was just one big F’n Goat Rodeo.
There was one big lie in the speech that I have yet to see addressed by any the conservative punditry, namely, the claim that 3 million jobs have been created in the last 22 months. Even a cursory look at the BLS data shows this be false.
The number of people employed in March of 2010, 22 months ago, was 138,836,000 the number of people employed as of last month was only 140,790,000 which leads to a total job groth over the last 22 months of 1,954,000, or less than two thirds of what the president claims. But what is a million fake jobs among friends?That means an average of only 88,800 new jobs a month which is specacularly unimpressive when one considers that roughly 150,000 new jobs are required every months just to break even with population growth (roughly 4 million people were added to the population during this time period). The only reason unemployment has gone down at all is because the total “work force” has shrunk by 77,000 during the time period (once again the actual population has increased by 4 million). In short the 3 million jobs created figure is a total fabrication.
I am not surprised that Obama is doing this, but I am surprised that nobody seems to be taking him to task for it. Or am I missing something?
PS. Please ignore the spelling errors, I was playing the SOTU drinking game with White Russians. Dangerouse yet advisable.
I don’t have the definitive answer, but as I understand it, jobs created speaks only to jobs, not number of people employed. In essence, a job may have been created in 2010 and abolished in 2011. It’s still counted as a “job created.”
I don’t drink anymore, but I popped a Xanax and used the time to pick fleas off the dog while I listened to the SOTU. Most of it seemed like out and out lies. My husband got so mad he had to leave the room. Did anyone understand that shit about the Navy?
Obama’s Class Warfare–Mission Accomplished?
Anyone who has closely or even cursorily followed the actions, declarations, and proposals of candidate Barack Hussein Obama and the enacted socio-economic policies of the Obama presidency has to be aware that he represents the greatest threat to domestic and international tranquility in the history of the United States.
Obama’s slip-of-the-lip to Joe the Plumber in 2008 that his intent was to “share the wealth” should have alerted Americans to his radical Marxist inclinations, but it didn’t.
His repeated statements pitting rich against the poor, the haves against those who haven’t, should have informed the electorate that he was launching class warfare, but they didn’t.
His Justice Department’s black racist decisions and his demeaning of white Americans should have shown he was fostering racial antagonisms and pitting race against race, but they didn’t.
His foisting of Obamacare on the American people, a socialistic scheme designed to kill off the sick and elderly patterned on Britain’s failed NHS, should have proven he was far more committed to his legacy than to the well-being of Americans, but it didn’t.
His enthusiastic support for the revolutionist Occupy movement intent on subverting the capitalist system that has made America great should have been a giveaway that Obama wasn’t a real American, but it didn’t.
None of that evidence was sufficient to convince Obama idolators who still mindlessly subscribed to their illusion of Barack was their dream rather than what he is, a nightmare and a fraud.
The president’s designated apologist, Press Secretary Jay Carney, was hit with an easy question at his Monday press briefing, a simple query as to whether a picture of Saul Alinsky hangs in the White House. The reporter was motivated to ask since Newt Gingrich has reasonably claimed Obama’s vision comes from the man who coined the term, “community organizer,” Saul David Alinsky.
Amid titters, Carney scoffed, waffled, defended his boss’s background as a Chicago “community organizer,” and replied without answering the qustion, ”I’ll just leave it at that.”
See Carney dance around Saul Alinsky here http://bit.ly/y0KKJn.
I doubt there’s a framed portrait of Alinsky in the executive mansion. There would be no need since Alinsky extremist socialism is firmly embedded in this president’s psyche and philosophy so who needs a picture?
Alinsky never became a registered Communist. He was so full of chutzpa that he refused to be bound by Communism’s “doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated” rigidity. Instead, he blazed his own trail of doctrinaire, humorless, intellectually constipated independence that served to supplement Communism’s and which, if anything, was more radical.
He virtually invented the job of community organizer, a euphemism for a rabble-rouser engaged in stirring social discontent and societal revolution and developed that profession on the streets of Chicago, the same streets on which his disciple Obama later practiced Alinskyite tactics.
As Linn and Ari Armstrong noted, “Beneath his [Alinsky's] platitudes about democracy and the ‘importance and worth in the individual,’ Alinsky reveals his core goal: to ‘use power for a more equitable distribution of the means of life for all people.’ “
Sound familiar? It should because Obama said much the same thing when he told Joe the Plumber that his aim was to “spread the wealth around” through political force.
In another relevant observation, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12244.)
First, we kill all the lawyers.
Second, we kill all the journalists.
Third, beat the crap out of anybody voting democrat.
Fourth, as for the rest of the politicians… I’m thinking volcano.
I don’t think I am quite sober yet.
2012: Hope and Fail… (with the appropriate stylized ‘o’ in hope)
PREVARICATOR OF THE UNITED STATES, Barry Soetoro (his real name—maybe)
Or Frank Marshall Davis Jr? What wonderful parentage – Daddy was a poet and a commie – and Mommy was anything but a mum.
“Obama will, as this Progressive progenitors, have put another brick in the wall of statist.”
You’re kidding – right? This guy has built a wing of that building for the progressives.
I can’t quite remember – no not because of drinking – whether any of the bills
Obama threatened to sign were worth having on his desk this morning.