Drunkblogging the State of the Union
5:21PM I’ve tuned in to CNN, as usual, and I’m seeing Eliot Spitzer for the first time as a TV host. It doesn’t seem possible, but I think I find him even creepier on TV than hookers found him in person. With that, it’s time to make a pitcher of martinis. If you’d like to drink along with me, you can find tonight’s recipe here.
Full drunkblogging to commence at 8:30PM Eastern.
5:31PM Word is, the President’s forward-looking speech will place heavy reference on Sputnik, launched in 1957 by a country which ceased to exist 20 years ago.
5:32PM NOTE: All times Pacific, apparently. I’m not psychic.
5:36PM Only CNN will broadcast Michelle Bachmann’s “official” Tea Party response. Nevertheless, Eliot Spitzer has me seriously thinking about switching over to Fox.
5:40PM United Liberty is doing a group-liveblog — sober, it seems. Posers.
Seriously, they have a good group going over there. Check it out.
5:41PM Joe Biden and that nylon tarp on his head are entering the House chamber. But the talk is all about who will sit with whom. At least when campfire hippie circles sing kumbaya, they’re sincere. Nauseating, but sincere.
5:44PM OK, I’ll give props for the Tucson Massacre ribbons. They could be a little more understated, but, hey, this is Washington.
5:48PM These GM ads are brought to you by… you.
5:51PM CNN Guy: “The question is, where will ya cut?”
The Eagles: “Everything, all the time.”
5:54PM Re: That last comment. I have never before quoted the Eagles, and I promise it will never happen again.
Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer is calling us all uninformed crybabies. There’s some truth there — but some projection, too.
5:54PM David Gergen says the text of Obama’s speech is light on specifics. Hard to believe, from the state Senator who once specialized in voting “present.”
5:56PM There comes a point in every budget-cutting debate, where the media reminds us that we want our cake and to eat it, too. They never, however, offer alternatives.
Why?
Because the last thing these DC-insider reporters want is for money and influence to leave Washington. Because it would include them.
6:00PM Here comes the Cabinet. Even from the wide-view of the Chamber, Tim Geithner has a grin like a sociopathic reptile.
6:01PM The first martini is already gone. Doing the PJTV wrap later tonight could get… interesting.
6:05PM Blitzer & Crew are at desperate pains to remind you that the new Congress even includes freshman Democrats!
6:06PM “Mr Speaker, the President of the United States.”
6:06PM Just so you know, I don’t cheat and pause on a TiVo or DVR. This is 100% live. Although at the moment, only about 15% drunk.
6:08PM There seems to be some unexpected gladhanding.
6:10PM Wolf Blitzer, birdlike, is fascinated with the President’s shiny tie.
6:12PM Remember when Bush warmly welcomed Pelosi as the new Speaker? Obama was ever-so-slightly less gracious. By which I mean: “Nearly dismissive.”
6:13PM Where is he going with this Tucson tribute?
6:14PM “We are still bound together as one people.” Ah — using Gabby as a call for bipartisanship, meaning, “Do what I want.” It’s lofty and cheap all at once.
6:15PM “New laws will only pass with support” from both parties. Would only that were true last year!
6:16PM I tell you now: This is a setup for Clintonian triangulation, minus the Clintonian move to the center.
6:17PM Boehner is approximately the same color as his tie, which is somewhere between lavender and fuchsia.
Almost makes me want to puce.
6:17PM One million jobs created last year! That’s not even treading water, folks.
6:18PM “You didn’t always need a degree” to get a good job. Well — here comes the reinflation of the higher education bubble.
6:19PM Whoa — those “revolutions in technology” started HERE. Let’s name a Chinese innovation before we go mucking around with that.
6:20PM “The competition for jobs is real.” I had a comment, but the left-right-left skull-metronome made me forget it. Sorry.
6:21PM This is, without a doubt, the most American speech he’s ever given. Upbeat, optimistic, reverent of our past. But I have a bad feeling his prescriptions will be… less so.
6:22PM We need to out-everything the rest of the world. Including, I suppose, out-tax and out-regulate.
6:23PM Yep. Here it come. No one can predict what the next great invention will be — but we’ll target investments, anyway. “Cognitive dissonance” is a phrase without meaning in our nation’s capital.
6:25PM “This is our nation’s Sputnik moment.” OK, fine. Let’s have a government with the size and scope of the one JFK left us. We’ll have many Sputnik moments.
6:26PM For over 200 years, Americans have opened their factories with government checks. FIFY, Mr. President.
6:27PM Biofuels! While food prices soar. Lovely. It’ll be very skinny people driving those million electric cars.
6:27PM And… the obligatory dig at oil companies.
6:29PM “If we want to win the future… we must win the race to educate our kids.” So true. Will he be willing to take on social promotion, PC classrooms, or teacher unions?
6:31PM Replace NCLB? Great! The question remains, however: With what?
6:33PM “We want good schools all across the country.” Again, I love this stuff. The question remains: How to get them? And his answer is: “Give lots more respect to these rent-seeking, over-insured, lavishly-entitled, PC automatons.”
6:34PM Savings for affordable college! Wait — what?
6:35PM If you’re unemployed, take a student loan. Yes, exactly, Mr. President. That’s how we’ll regain our competitiveness.
6:36PM Apropos of nothing, Boehner’s Gabby ribbon is now horizontal.
6:37PM Apparently, mouthing the words of the Pledge of Allegiance is good enough for citizenship. Sweet. I’m a citizen like 12,000 times already.
6:38PM China is building newer airports, it’s true. Their first one was built circa 1987.
6:40PM “We’ll make sure this is fully paid for.” “80% of Americans access to high-speed rail.” Look at a map. Impossible. He’s just gone from optimistic to silly. Outlandishly so.
6:41PM Wait — we need government “investments” to invent the Kindle and the iPhone 4?
6:42PM Lower corporate tax rates? Excellent. But meaningless without a corresponding reduction in nanny-statism.
6:42PM The call for tax reform is a good one, but might just be a decoy to keep congress from undoing the damage of the last two years.
6:43PM Don’t we have free trade agreements with numerous countries he’s been ignoring for two years?
6:44PM AHHH! WAXMAN CLOSEUP! AAHHHHHHH!
6:45PM “Anything can be improved,” in regards to Obamacare. Then why the rush to pass it? OK, he’ll trade the 1099-MISC requirement — but for what? Anything?
6:47PM I’m a parent. I care about my kids. But since when did keeping our kids dependent until their mid-20s count as good parenting?
6:47PM OK, here come the spending cuts… [CRICKETS]
6:49PM Freeze domestic spending for five years. That would freeze it at current levels. That’s not a cut. That’s not savings. That’s locking in four years of orgiastic spending.
Oh, except for some military cuts he finds “painful.” Boo-hoo.
6:50PM Don’t cut our investments! They’re investments! I swear! Listen: If you want investments, then stop taxing investors so much and let them do their thing.
6:51PM “Further reducing health care costs.” I have no comment, I am so full of disgust.
6:52PM Excuse me, Mr President? How did you vote on Social Security reform last time it was offered up?
6:52PM Re: My comment about not taxing investors so much? I do believe the President just promised to “tax you bastards back to the Stone Age.”
6:54PM “Let me take this one step further.” Nooooooooooo! He wants a “government of the future.” In other words: Al Gore on David Letterman wearing comical goggles, smashing an ashtray with a hammer. And that was so long ago, Letterman was still funny.
That’s you’re government of the future.
6:56PM “We’ll cut through red tape,” just as soon as my blue-ribbon commission on red-tape disposal has file the appropriate report, approved by Congress and implemented by the EPA’s red-tape burial office.
6:57PM The liberal dreams of a government that is “open and competent.” The conservative knows it just won’t happen.
6:58PM “America’s standing has been restored,” as I take credit for Bush policies.
7:00PM This is a strange way to end the speech. He had his high notes at the beginning, a muddle in the middle (with apologies to Dr. Seuss) and an off-putting foreign policy bit at the end — complete with a call not to shoot up no Muslims? I take it back — this is a strange speech, overall.
7:02PM This is a strange way to end the speech. He had his high notes at the beginning, a muddle in the middle (with apologies to Dr. Seuss) and an off-putting foreign policy bit at the end — complete with a call not to shoot up no Muslims? I take it back — this is a strange speech, overall.
7:02PM So — the drawdown begins in Affghanistan this summer. Even though results are mixed, at best. I was wary of the surge there, but this drawdown is… the worst kind of mixed signal.
7:03PM We’re gonna be allies with El Salvador!
7:03PM Screw you, China. We’ve got El Salvador! In March. Maybe.
7:04PM We stand with Tunisia! Not with Iran’s protestors, so much. But screw you, China — we’ve got Tunis. Maybe. Unless they remember Iran.
7:05PM Clinton’s SOTU speeches were much longer, but they ended sooner.
7:06PM We have Hindu troops. GAY Hindus. Screw you, China!
7:07PM Sorry. Got a little slaphappy there.
Although his call on his alma mater to allow ROTC strikes me as empty, at best.
7:08PM We’re ending on a positive note by refuting Thomas Friedman. This is a pretty big twist — for the .01% of Americans who know about the Friedman column in question.
7:10PM “I AM the American dream, b****es!”
Sorry — getting slaphappy again. Still, nice props to Biden & Boehner.
7:11PM Every time he gets them whipped up, he kills his own momentum. It’s a very strange speech.
7:13PM “We do big things, the idea of America endures, our destiny remains our choice.” So long as our choice is DC’s choice.
That’s what I got out of this speech.
How about you?
7:43PM I’ll host the Trifecta wrap up live on PJTV in just a couple minutes.
Yes, in my current condition — why do you ask?
7:51PM One more thing: Michele Bachmann is showing Paul Ryan how it’s done.
Good on ya, CNN, for showing us this.
I will be “priming the pump” for the SOTU, starting now.
Please drink responsibly. If doing SHOTS, switch to thimbles, one person cannont consume that volume on what’s sure to be many elbow bends!…. ” I ” ” invest” “jobs” “let me be clear” “I’ve always said” “win”
looking forward to the drunkblogging – pitcher is prepped and “quality checking” the first drink … wonder if anyone is “quality checking” the SOTU speech for truths – ha ha ha ha I crack myself up.
Lets see, Hockey or Barry, well…sorry Barry.
Will just read Steve’s comments to get an idea of what was lied about… errr said.
I envy you.
Hopefully Stephen won’t condemn me outright as the philistine that I am, but I’m just retreating to rum and coke for this one.
“…let me be perfectly clear …I am not a natural born american citizen”
I’m imbibing vodka tonics, and over the last year I’ve had to step down from Skyy, which is made two states away to Svedka, which is Swedish. Save about $7 a bottle.
Patron on the rocks here.
Hell-a woman.
I’d tip my hat if I wore one.
I just bought the “Complete Definitive Collection” of Twilight Zone. A 28-DVD box set, with every episode of all five seasons. Granted, I’ve seen just about all of them on TV over the years (multiple times), but these are digital transfers from the original film negatives. When I watch them on my computer monitor, it’s like seeing them in high definition. It is high-definition. It’s way better than the original audience saw them on their 1959 black-and-white TV sets.
Just saying. It’s an alternative, and probably won’t require as much heavy drinking.
The trick will be to flip back and forth between The Twilight Zone, and the SOTU, and then figure out which is more surreal.
Tough call, in my book.
Obama has left the White House! Obama has left the White House! Oh, craaaap, he’ll be back after the SOTU address… sigh.
Darn it. I forgot to buy some Guiness on the way home.
Is this a ‘what are you drinking’ thread? Bourbon n branch here.
I’m drinking a Tom Collins. I hardly ever imbibe anymore but this is an emergency.
Just noticed the “about you” tag at the bottom. Sons plural? Congratulations to you & Melissa. I knew about the one, but not the other.
Jeebus. Does this man’s fetish with Communism/Socialism know no end?
woodford reserve, straight up.
JD for me.
Knob Creek. Neat.
They have a splendid gun range there. Oops! New tone. My bad.
Halfway through a 22oz Blue Hills Brewery “Red Baron Ale”…
http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/exclusive-obama-to-declare-the-rules-have-changed–20110125
By my count:
“invest” -5
“investment” – 7
“investing” – 2
Beer and pizza for me for this lowbrow sideshow-list-of-goodies-to-be-dispensed. I’ll go to the vodka martinis for a more appropriate speech: when Ryan goes on air.
Best Part of SOTU: Sgt. at Arms saying MISTER Speaker.
Wouldn’t it be a blast if his teleprompter failed?
LOL!
I can dream.
I am drinking a pinot grigio. (sp???)
I’m too old to drink the heard stuff that much.
Once, Clinton’s prompter DID fail. And he went on without a hitch, hiccup or “hum.”
heard stuff? Been imbibing much already.
Oh, I’m hanging around, just for that!
No spending freeze, but spending cuts.
He only seems authentically happy when people are cheering him
It’s Cabernet Sauvignon, tonight.
Desperate times, desperate measures.
We’ve got sociopathic reptiles and haven’t even gotten to The Speech yet! I’m sure there’ll be a few more deranged varmint sightings before the evening is old…
As it happens, my ex-wife and I were both born during the three-month period in late 1957-early 1958 that Sputnik 1 was aloft.
And we’re pretty old, according to our kids.
May next year be his last SOTU ever. Or he could resign and we get one laugh-a-minute Biden SOTU
Paul Ryan’s like a lot of the rock bands I’ve seen over the years.
He has a lousy opening act.
Thread winner
To help with the budget deficit, tonight will be the first-ever Tostitos™ State of the Union Address.
Trying to make nice to the SC Justices – try harder.
Holy cow! Y’all have to jump over to Tammy Bruce’s live stream: http://www.talkstreamlive.com/listen.aspx?s=6941
Lady is on FIRE tonight!
Hlarious!
Sheesh. I think I’ll step it up to Wild Turkey 101.
To be back in graduate school with access to tax stamp ethanol – 200 proof.
You are a lucky guy or gal. Ethanol and water co-distill at 95 percent ethanol, 5 percent water. It can’t be further concentrated because ethanol will absorb water from the air to reach that nice, stable 95 percent.
So how do they make 200 proof? They add nasty things like benzene, toluene, or xylenes at about a half percent.
Please stay away from 200 proof and tell your friends. It can also pull water from the esophagus if drunk straight. It’s not meant for human consumption.
Is it true that Speaker Boehner provided Joe the Plumber a seat in the gallery as an invited guest? If not, why not?
There is something about being reminded that Joe Biden, whose IQ is exactly equal to the intelligence of his hair plugs, being Vice President that just infuriates me.
Sit down and shut up
I am investing in some fine merot tonight, hope this “jump up” warrants the
expenditure.
Don’t cry John. Please.
Please, John, don’t cry for him!!!
First thing I note:
He washed all the black out of his hair!
He’s gray again!
Gabby Giffords, God Bless – something we can all agree to.
Best moment yet: Boehner’s expression when Biden popped to his feet.
High Life Light. What can I say? Times are tough.
But not that tough. A shot every time the word “investment” is uttered. Deal?
Ugh. Already I’m swapping over to Wild Turkey 101.
I almost made it Sailor Jerry and coke, but Obama is not worth it.
Notice he’s gray again?
I think the empty seat is a classy touch.
Oh brother. The civility lecture. Make it stop!!!
Doesn’t everyone acknowledge that Loughner was not motivated by political “incivility”?
Most of us in the real world do. But not everybody, apparently.
Did the camera just pan to Michelle fist bumping?
Stock market roaring, corporate profits up, dollar weak, debt to the MOOONN!!!!
you know he just doesn’t have it. Whoa “Tax cuts??”
He sounds like a kid reading someone else’s speech.
The university I work for is looking at 20% budget cuts. The Toledo economy is not coming back. And those are mostly extension of Bush tax rates.
Buffalo Trace bourbon. And I’m not watching. Just the drunk-blog for me.
I found I’d left most of a bottle of Killians on my desk last night. Seems appropriate to be finishing it off tonight.
Geeze, the comments are lagging, it’s like stuttering, thinking my comment disappeared and then behold! There are two.
More rum is needed, obviously.
Jobs for life are gone. Have been for a while. Of course for someone who has never held a job outside of gov’t, he wouldn’t know.
He starts the State of the Union with reference to Tucson? Bleeehh. The freaking buses here in Tucson have “Together We Thrive” on the front.
He doesn’t believe a word of this. None.
Where’s the “Jack-N-The-Box, EX-speaker Pelosi (May Botox Be Upon Her)?
She was rather entertaining.
What tax cuts? Whose paychecks are bigger?
agreed. the small cut in social security was more than overwhelmed by the HUGE jump in health insurance premiums, due to insurance company’s freaking over Obamacare.
Chinese solar, oh no!!
We must close the solar gap!
J&B and Soda in a tumbler and Obama’s hair is back to gray again.
Thank Heaven for live blogging. Now I don’t have to watch the speech all my myself.
Is that a Biden bobble doll behind The One? It keeps bobbling…
I’m still not getting why people think this guy is a great speaker. The tics as he cranes his head, never breaking eye lock with the teleprompter just annoy the crap out of me.
Best place to do business? Cut taxes and spending and regulations. End of speech you narcissist.
“Innovation is how we make our living.” draws very tepid applause
Sputnik? are you kidding me? This is just a ruse for more spending!
The entire Apollo program cost a small fraction of Obama’s wasted porkopulus.
Since I’m unemployed, I just opened a new bottle of 2 buck chuck.
“Our Sputnik moment”?
Really?
Reinvent our energy policy by taxing it into the stone age.
Is it just me, or is the applause sort of subdued?
Not just you. There is no loud cheering like last year.
Yep, shortage of Democrats in the House … hehe
Solar shingles? Yeah, that’ll get the economy restarted.
We have cheap oil & gas. Just drill for it you f’ing moron.
We need to reinvent liberals as unacceptable in power.
Aw, Nancy look’s a little sad that she doesn’t get to lead the Congressional Jack-In-The-Box Aerobics anymore.
Clean energy…what a farce
On the third Greyhound. I should have started about mid-afternoon.
We sure don’t want any of those efficient energy sources, you know, like oil? We already sent those jobs overseas.
All of these proposals equate to attacking in every direction at once.
Well at least Boehner is looking like “we’re not going to pass a damn thing he’s proposing, I am so bored.”
Vincent, there was an extra buck or two in your paycheck with Obama’s name on it, didn’t you notice? It worked out to almost enough for you to hit Wendy’s dollar menu twice a week. That’s stimulus!
SPQR, tell Vincent to be careful at Wendy’s. Todays Drudge shows an employee being assaulted by Obama voters. Best take that stimulus to mail order.
This speech illustrates that “talk is cheap.”
Does it occur to him that education went to crap when the DoE came into being? Here’s some innovation, end DoE.
It isn’t just a top-down mandate, it’s much more.
Yeah, I’m sold….
If you want what’s best for our kids, try vouchers. Oh, wait. The unions. My bad.
Laphroig 10 yr. Not to be savored while 0 is on TV. But the assembled gallery here at PJTV enhances the enjoyment of the beverage, like you are all here in the living room. Marvellous!
See my post #219. You’re clearly a man of taste. Laphroaig!
If you take a shot every time he says education or educate you’d be as incoherent as he is.
I noticed the same thing. Wonder what he has in that innocuous “water” glass?!
We don’t respect teachers enough?
Oh well, let’s pay them more….
Crikey..another new “teacher” investment. I have been hearing this for 25 years.
I wonder what grade Chinese and Indian student start using laptops.
Don’t need govt schools. Let’s transition to free market education.
spot on
I just became aware of how much a Marxist John Dewey was. And Horace Mann came back to this country with glowing reports on a Prussian school system where he saw neither teacher nor student in the class room. The Prussian schools were designed to teach the lower 90% how to read and act as a homogeneous group: the better for soldiers to defeat the French. That is what we got from Horace Mann and John Dewey: schools designed to make our children into part of the group, not individuals. Of course, the Left trumpets 4-year-old kindergarten, the better to start training the children how to behave in a group. Public schools in America are the ultimate in socialism by their financing and operation. No wonder so many teachers trumpet that line. Then, they are in unions. Threaten to cut the school budget, and they offer to fire the newest hires, not the worst teachers, and increase class size. Hold the children hostage. Decrease administration? No way, no how. No wonder teachers love Democrats, and they return the favor. I say, make teacher unions illegal, and finance more charter schools.
College degrees equal training for new jobs?
Ummmm, no they don’t.
C’mon. Where else will you find the managers to handle those McDonalds and meat packing plants stuffed with illegal aliens, not to mention who will train the H1B visa holders to take over their jobs and arrange for the transfer of technology to Megacorp’s new Chinese facility if we don’t have enough diploma holders?
Dang. I took up drinking again just for this speech and I’m already feeling it. Wait a minute…maybe that’s a good thing. ZZZZZZZZZZZ
the sputnik reference…
ironic that the guy who has done more to destroy this country than any previous president is invoking the soviet satellite which was hearlded as a means of destroying the country.
OK, I’m going to need some more wine over here!
Champagne+ for me tonight … because with more conservatives we have a chance of turning some of this around, and because I don’t have to watch him, and read VP, and be far more amused than watching TV.
“…rebuilding American.”
…in the image of the Soviet Union.
Believe I just heard Obama tell us how poor our schools have become so that more “investment” is needed, and then he immediately turned around and told us that federal control of dollars distributed to states that met higher education standards proves that such an “investment” works.
So, which is it? Schools are in terrible shape? Or federal govenment has succeeded in raising the quality of schools?
I know, I know. Listening to the substance of what Obama says distracts from the melody. So just hum along, even if the words make no sense.
Higher education bubble? Glen Reynolds call your office.
And Russia’s the country that built the transSiberian railroad. WTF is your point?
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww………………………
Feel sorrry for the illegals.
Soooooooooo………sad……….
OK, so Obama wants to show us a lesson in TELEPROMPTER READING!
Goody!
Has he no personal feelings for this country at all?
He does respect the teachers who cannot pass a grammar test themselves.
Redouble efforts of infrastructure investment?
Yup, more bonded indebtedness, that’s the answer.
How about undersea cities?
INVESTMENTS!!! nope that isnt spending!! Nope….
Guess he didnt get the memo we do NOT WANT MORE spending!
The era of big government is just getting started according to this dismal speech.
Hah! We’ll spend more of the money you don’t have yet so we won’t have to pat your crotch area.
Boehner: Unfreaking believable, they told me tonight, “NO CRYING, SPEAKER”, but good Lord, this babbling blather is gonna drive me to tears, no sh…”
Kind of like the several companies that were exempted from the rules of Obamacare. It makes no sense.
Reduce the corporate tax rate? He must mean something else.
The President just mocked the TSA. Need I remind you, Mr. President, it’s YOUR TSA. If it’s so eminently mockable (and it is), FIX IT!
If we have to spend money on transportation why on earth are we dumping it into rail systems nobody will use instead of our decaying roads?
I sure wish I knew the answer to this one …
D
Whoa, our food is safe to eat? Why all the new rules and mommy state laws?
Evil insurers – BOOOOOO!!!!!
So glad I don’t have any insurance!!
There is not enough alcohol in the state to drown out this crap. He is saying things that he doesn’t believe and would never advocate. He really is trying to appear to be moving to the center. Anyone with more than two brain cells knows he is just saying what his handlers tell him to say. Yeah, more regulations, now he’s back to his old self.
How come he keeps talking about stuff that we did during the Taft Administration?
Small flaw in the health care law? Yeah, it’s called the health care law.
“that’s why we have speeding laws…”
I see that the President feels he must explain our very existence and some of the most mundane requirements of law and how Leftism is necessary to make it better.
Jeez, is he still yammering?
How many times does this need to be said — it’s no longer “insurance” if someone has a “pre-existing condition.” Oh, and 26-year-olds are not “children.”
SO NOW, they think the 1099 thing was bogus??? Sit down all you dems who voted for it!!! Shame on you!
“:44PM AHHH! WAXMAN CLOSEUP! AAHHHHHHH!”
Phew, went to brush my teeth.
Boehner:… Unfreaking believable, they told me tonight, “NO CRYING, SPEAKER”, but good Lord, this babbling blather is gonna drive me to tears, no sh…”
real subdued applause regarding the spending freeze
6:29PM – Jab at Gov Christie NJ…future 2012 opponent!
How does a “freeze” require cuts?
Applause line F…F….F…FAIL. What about that spending freeze now?
Is it just me or is it strange to see congressmen and senators begging for autographs like little leaguers at their first major league game?
budget freeze – crickets
Brace yourself – here comes the Creative Math portion of the program.
Dagger eyes from Bachmann, love it.
You’ve just increased gov’t salaries a lot. They can do with not a pay freeze, but a pay cut.
Ack… I saw Waxman too, and it was just after a late supper. I swear he looks like the melting Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I’m “feeling the impact” right now. Ouch.
6:35PM If you’re unemployed, take a student loan. Yes, exactly, Mr. President. That’s how we’ll regain our competitiveness.
The Marie Antoinette of the 21st Century. No job? Let them eat non-dischargeable student loans.
400 billion over 10 year, wow… just wow. Isn’t that just 0.003% of our national debt?
Good lord… to Obama, not taking more of people’s money is “spending.”
This litany of “proposals” is nothing more than throwing everything at the wall and taking credit for whatever sticks and blaming the Republicans for whatever gets shot down.
Fine.
Load up Boehner (pardon the violent imagery).
Now the forward thinking part of the speech, Social Security.
1099 thing was built in for this purpose. Watch for others.
SWEET!
Sounds like the recession/depression is over.
I guess we can all sleep tight now…
“to make a principled compromise…” Isn’t that an oxymoron?
@6:51 “I am so full of disgust.” Mega dittos
This speech is of a man with no rudder. Not even one stuck to the left. Certainly not running true.
I swore I wouldn’t open that second bottle. Any help with some legalese excuse I can use? “I didn’t really open it for me…”
This speech makes me long for Silent Cal.
Greedy millionaires. They are not Americans. We need simple tax. How about giving it all to the government. That had been tried before, no?
I’ll believe it when I see it. Should anyone believe this guy?
Rep Ryan, better keep it short and sweet after this soliloquy.
@6.56PM The GOVERNMENT is a SPECIAL INTEREST
Defund NPR, PBS, Dept. of Education immediately. Cut UN spending 50% immediately. Now tomorrow we do more.
The earmarks must be taped to the outside of the bill.
Any one else thoroughly enjoying NOT watching or listening to our pathological liar in chief?
Yo.
A’bunadh…I’d thought it too refined for tonight’s veneer over Chicago politics, but SOMEone suggested that the drunkblogging community is sufficient offset.
And it has a better aftertaste than most of O’s flowery twists of prevarication…
Wow. That went right through me. Potty Break!……Did I miss anything?
Veto any bill that contains earmarks?
This should read I will veto any bill I want and then cite the fact that the bill contained earmarks. Pretty tricky.
Iraq war coming to an end…coming form this guy and who his VP is…this is just scummy. Thank God Bush ignored these people.
Muslims! Don’t forget to mention the Muslims. Putin’s got a response ready for them, any day now.
Taliban, pronounced like Harry Belefonte’s tallyman. And you are sticking with Bush’s timetable.
Please!!! Please!!! Can this soon be over??? I can’t stand any more B.S.!
Is this still day 2 of the SOTU Address?
time to go watch the Office reruns
“We should give them a government that’s more competent and efficient?”
You’re saying that “we” as if it’s yours to give, Mr. President.
I’m a Cheesehead, fortunate enough to be rooting on my team in the upcoming Superbowl.
And this is what he’s telling me: I’ll tell my Steelers’ defensive line to wait 1/8 second longer before they jump and hit your guys, and we’ll call that even. Mkay?
NO. Don’t give me a “credit”, don’t let myself pay myself for something that I’ve already paid myself for.
GET. OUT. OF. MY. WAY!!!!!!!! And watch me run the ball all by myself! I’m a big boy now, sir! Let me be!!!
Including Iranians?
Ugh.
I thought that torture was against the Geneva Convention.
I’d rather be waterboarded than listen to this guy.
Biggest fan of this speech?: Jimma
Alright, bring on Ryan.
I’ll take Ohio State over El Salvador in March.
The brilliant teleprompter reader–er, orator–doesn’t know how to use the subjunctive. “…insist that North Korea keeps its promises…” means that he’s asserting that it really does. He meant “…insist that North Korea keep its promises…”, i.e. assert that North Korea had better keep its promises.
McCain looks at home in the Kerry/Lieberman section.
DADT? Campaigning starts now!
Not a good speech at all. All over the place.
Let us speak in one voice, give the soldiers what they need (while cutting the budget, of course).
And they’re gay.
Need another drink.
Did he just equate gay with minorities?
We are in a lot of trouble.
“If they don’t want a story in the newspaper, it doesn’t get written..”
Hmmm, this sounds like the MSM.
Trying to end sounding like Reagan. Sad.
You can feel the envy in his voice when he talks about nations under dictators where the rulers can do anything they want …
David
Turn off the teleprompter!!
Please!! For the love of God!!!!!!!
so am i supposed to be the five-year-old he is obviously talking down to ??
I have to slow down, I thought I heard him say, “This drink, this American drink…”
I can’t stand it when he mentions the Constitution. He and his ilk use it for toilet paper.
“7:06PM We have Hindu troops. GAY Hindus. Screw you, China!”
Their saris are just so faaaaabulous! (Sorry, been watching The Soup)
You want to promote ROTC recruiting on college campuses?
Withhold funding from the those colleges that don’t allow it.
Champagne. My sentiments, exactly. Please stop. Just stop. No more.
Who’s the speechwriter for this?
Anthony Robbins?
Where do I send my $29.95?
the Image-in-Chief, who came to fundamentally transform America, is transforming his Image right before our eyes because America’s voters told him No Dice on 11/2/10. He’s just a chameleon, its just what he does – but no one’s buying this time! Yak on, Barack.
WORST. SPEECH. EVER.
Republicans got played on the ground game. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Obama’s soaring rhetoric is in stark constrast to his heavy thumb crushing and snuffing the American Dream.
Pfft.
I look forward to Obama planning on going to the finals of the Westinghouse science fair (now Siemens Science and Technology Competition) if students from Chicago make it there, rather than flying to the Super Bowl if da Bears make it.
If you note, there is NO human nature with Obama.
He believes in ”utopia,” through planning.
But our human nature cannot stand in the way.
That’s why (according to Obama) we will ”win” the future.
I got news for Obama, much of the government waste is because of human nature of American government workers with their greedy little hands on federal credit cards!
Who was that?
He like sociopaths and communists I’ve known and not loved: just let me keep talking long enough to wear you down until you finally agree with me even though I make no sense when I talk.
Lackluster
Chuck Todd on NBC trying to find something positive in this, not convincing.
the most refreshing thing about the whole speech…not having to see Nancy popping up and down every two seconds like last year.
The much shorter, much more honest version of the SOTU speech;
We are totally F#^ked, people. Abandon ship.
Pep talk. Breathless pep talk. Among other things the disappearing jobs in the rust belt was news 30 years ago. Oh my. State of the Union? State of his presidency. Skittering down the gutter. Aw some some kind of wonderful.
I think I saw Speaker Boehner cry. That’s all the media’s going to care about tomorrow. Why worry about the other stuff?
I think you summed well in a sentence. I’d add “Pay no attention to the Progressive behind the curtain,” though.
His status quo is to be post-bellum vs. ante-bellum. If there’s to be any deficit reduction, all of the first half of the term must be repealed, especially the health care battle he’s so averse to re-fighting.
Go Ryan!
We miss you, Joe Wilson.
I especially like that POTUS has the grace to sign autographs for fellow political celebrity/sycophants
did it really take until the second to the last sentence to actually say what the state of the union was? I agree with other posters – this was a message written – at least for the first half – to children – yep… because we adults are too stewpid to grasp adult concepts and messages…
“We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.”
So, did Jeff Probst help out with this speech, or what?
Flat. Even the high points were flat. He ticked off a lot of Dems and didn’t didn’t make any new friends on the right. He said some Republican-ish things but fat chance any of that will really happen.
No, wait, I’m all wrong the brit blowhard on CNN liked it………big relief.
7:10PM “I AM the American dream, b****es!”
Brilliant, Stephen. You rule.
He deftly rearranged those deck chairs on the US Titanic tonight, not noticing that even the band had already jumped ship. A real yawner! But, hey, thanks POTUS for the opportunity to have a glass or 3 of fine merlot.
Next year – skip it, huh?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Peace and sanity in the form of Rep. Paul Ryan’s response. Truth exists.
Would someone check on Stephen, please? It’s possible he pulled something important in that last push to blog thru this latest Obama debacle.
Pres. Obama’s 2011 “State of My Ego Address”. More Hot Air.
It really was Sigue Sigue Sputnik! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhVieOGQkw
Fascinated with technology and television and outer space, with an off putting foreign policy bit!
Edited Lyrics from http://www.mp3lyrics.org/s/sigue-sigue-sputnik/21st-century-boy/
Sigue Sigue Sputnik 21st Century Boy
Stereo, video, let’s go. Saturn dreams. I’m a space cowboy
I’m a 21st century whoopee boy.
- This is a new age of television -
Siamese
Lebanese
Chinese speaking
strip T V.s
Singapore
El Salvador
Coca Cola.
Embryo, UFO, freak oh psycho, horror show.
Hips and lips and beauty queens – let’s party -.
- An American dream, An American dream -
let’s go;
- I love technology!-
- I love technology!-
Lyrics: 21st Century boy, Sigue Sigue Sputnik [end]
Ed Rendell offering REALLY lame analysis of this speech, saying that Obambe did a great job of co-opting Republican positions.
First, I think Rendell’s wrong.
Second, even if he’s right – saying it is one thing, doing it is something else.
Just watched Paul Ryan’s address. I wish that he were more passionate – as he usually is.
I live in Janesville, WI – Paul Ryan’s home town. I think he’s a smart WONK, and I agree with him on almost everything.
However, tonight he seemed staged. He seemed too Yul Brynner in Westworld to me. He needed to say what I wanted to say (see above).
They need a new movie. Washingtonwold; because our politicians are nothing but automatons with fake human facial features.
Is Hillary ok? She looked ghastly ghostly tonight…No color at all.
Theme song for the SOTU speech: Slade, “Run Run Away”.
See chameleon,
Lying there in the sun,
All things to everyone,
Run, run away…
On NBC, Brian Williams for the third time has put forth the theory that the reason why the reception of Obama’s SOTU was so weak was due to the “various cliques” being broken up in their sitting arrangement in the chamber.
What a speech. Full of nothing. Well, at least it wasn’t long enough to get really tanked.
Notice the high points of President opposite – everything he said he’d do, he’ll do the opposite of. Taking notes.
Brian Williams now giving Michelle Bachman all of less than two minutes to give her reasons on why she was giving a “Tea Party” response.
Actually gave her about one minute.
Weak.
Reminiscent of Ford’s Whip Inflation Now “WIN” buttons, effective immediately all senior members of the administration should be required to wear Obama’s Winning the Future “WTF” buttons. Personally I think a picture of Holder, Clinton, and Biden wearing WTF buttons more accurately communicates the state of the government than the SOTU speech could.
@6:17: Ow, my brain.
@6:27: Well of course. Fat people don’t fit inside.
Got to confess I didn’t listen to the speech, or have a single drink. Fact is, last time I had three scotches straight up I found myself lying in a prone position in a very unladylike position. My date was somewhere in the picture, and, I wasn’t tasting scotch.
One position I’m proud of, though, hasn’t changed; the one on Obama, the pathological liar and card carrying communist.
Relax PC’ers. I know there are those who prefer the PC word, liberal, but if you ever wondered what I’d be like having Nikita Krushchev as President of the United States giving the State of the Union Address, tonight’s ObamaSpeech puts you firmly in the zip code.
Domestically, Obama’s a train wreck; having virtually bankrupted our economy. If he were part of a typical American household, he’d have racked up about an 80 thou debt on MasterCard alone. And would busily be making phone calls to have all his credit cards raised to a new limit.
On foreign policy issues, Obama has poured gasoline all over the nation and set it on fire.
His rules of engagement are getting Marines killed left and right in Afghanistan. His slobbering love affair with labor unions are robbing our taxpayers. ObamaCare is the ultimate ObamaGouging of the American people. By the way, all the big labor unions are exempt from ObamaCare. ObamaHatred of all who disagree with him (“Fox is no news station”)threatens to rob us of our first amendment rights. His deep-sixing of U.S. missile defense while making it relatively easy for the Russians to steal it, puts our children’s lives at risk. His fear of Iran puts all Israeli lives at risk. His hatred of England has broken a century old tradition of two country’s having each others’backs. And the next two years gives us more ObamaSchemes to look forward to.
Obama’s general disgust for long held American ideals, principles and values has bought this country a one way ticket to hell. His depraved, perverted administration has corrupted government, and attempted to destroy the Constitution. He adroitly used the Tucson massacre to gin up his approval rating by 15 points. Ask yourself. Why did Obama in that Wednesday Tucson speech talk so much about civility? It had nothing to do with the shooting. He did it because a crooked cop, Paul Krugman and the main stream media rushed to judgment that incivility was the cause of a mad man gone wild. ObamaFriends carried the despicable narrative to gullible American people, and in his Tuscon speech, like a relay runner, Obama picked up the blame baton and ran with it.
It’s criminal that Obama continues to be President; that the next election is so far away, and that, in the meantime, the damage to our nation that this criminal President thinks he can get away with is so great.
To make matters worse, Hannity and O’reilly, like hungry fish, have swallowed the incivility narrative, and wonder like naive schoolboys why the leftists ignore it. When I used the phrase, “gullible American”, I was speaking more to Hannity and O’reilly than any of my neighbors.
America, we’ve hit a low point. Do we sit here and do nothing and see our nation reduced to dust before our eyes, or do we start digging and get out of this hole we find ourselves in? The a-hole we have as President.
Folks, if you ever wondered what it felt like on March 5, 1836, inside the Alamo, January 25,2011 gives you a pretty good idea.
Folks, if you ever wondered what it felt like on March 5, 1836, inside the Alamo, January 25,2011 gives you a pretty good idea.
This, I believe, is the quote of the thread. The remedies that remain to us, if we wish to regain and keep our freedom, are… unpleasant. History is my witness.
tomorrow we won’t remember a thing, God willing.
“I don’t know anybody (American) who’d take another country over ours….”
SAY WHAT????
For 60 years Americans and government administrations have done everything possible to become like any European country over America and Obama is by far the most aggressive in trying to transform America into an “equal and like” buddy brother of the EU.
Laphroaig, with a wee splash to open it up. Didn’t watch Soros’ lawn jockey. Finishing Chantal Delsol’s Icarus Fallen. Raise one for the Republic. Another for fallen comrades. And another for the gathering storm.
Another Bizmall Failure by Obama, nothing to see here, Move along !!! Last Yr he proposed a 3yr spending freeze and Democrats had the power to initiate that Spending Freeze but never happened, now he does a 5yr spending freeze and that to will be forgotten. Not once did Obama find it in him to mention something about the rising cost of Gas, But when Bush was in office all the Liberals were on Bushes Ass to dipp into our Oil Reserves to lower the cost of Gas when it was just $2/gal. Gas is well over $3/gal and not a F$%king peep out of any Liberal Progressive POS to say hey Gas is expensive and Americans are paying way too much to get to & from work, there working just to pay for Gas maybe we should drill more or open up more refineries to increase production but Hell F67king No. Republicans better think long and hard about doing something about the price of Gas and start now !!!!
Good God I love America.
Go Paul Ryan!
And that’s because I watched 1776 DVD musical.
It’s all about the violence. Making the world safe for the Soccer Moms & their accepted preconceptions. Oh, and for their husbands, too, if they work for the extra super-large all-purpose government contractors with a lot of dedicated and innovative union employees. I’m down with that. And don’t forget, Muslims citizens are inherently safe-cuz we want them to be. Citizens…
Hendricks martini, Vya vermouth, about 8 to one ratio, stirred, lemon peel squeezed and floated. Ahhhhh.
Did he say, “We ‘reset’ our relationship with Russia?” He was kidding, right?
Obama is the verbal equivalent of warm monkey vomit. The right needs a Keith Olbermann to bitch-slap this fool out of his complacent zombie twaddle. The country is slowly sinking beneath the waves and this guy thinks it’s just a ‘sputnik moment.’ I need about five Tanqueray shaken AND stirred with anchovy-olives to brace me for the garbage and lies the left will tell about this twaddle. CBS insanely gives poll results that 92% approved and that will be the headline in the lying fishwrap NYT. CNN’s sane and sober 52% will be thrown under the bus as an “outlier” poll. CBS gives Pravda in the old Stalin-day totalitarian police-state a run for its liar’s all-time Guinness Cup.
VP you did it again. Thank you so much for deconstructing the lies and garbage that come out of this twit’s mouth.
I can’t stand to listen to BH speak at all. You perform an invaluable service for your nation!
Cheers!
It took 3 very cold beers to figure out that I was strangely fascinated with Biden. He must have practiced hours on end in front of the mirror his ‘deep and intellectual’ facial expression..
TOTUS was so boring and full of BS, Boehner looked like he was fighting back laughter/tears, can’t figure which..
Looks like an ape with a dress on in the front row…oops… It’s FLOTUS. UGH…Time for something stronger. I wonder if she feels proud of the country yet? NAHHH…
Where is the damn remote…
Ryan does need to look a little more ‘animated’…probably just woke up from the TOTUS speech.
I will never get this time back that I wasted on this stupid Show…I mean SOTU. NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN
A forgetful speech, delivered by a pathetic and impotent president. There is nothing he hasn’t said before with regards to his policy ‘change’.
The ‘hard’ work, since last Nov’s election (i.e., messaging) to imitate Reagan, extra study Obama had to endure and hardship of his reduced partying, just shows how pathetic this man-child is.
Anyone else thinking of “Monorail!” from The Simpsons?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw
My favorite metaphor is “poised for progress”. He sets a good example with his feet up on the desk, shirt unbuttoned, tie loose, leaning back in his custom leather swivel chair, discussing plans for his next Hawaiian vacation.
The alien with a green card working at Taco Bell has more responsibility than this bum.
Just curious as to what anti-depressant medication(s) Obama’s on?