SOTU: Blame Congress
Buck January 28th, 2008 - 10:54 amThe decider’s final State of the Union address is tonight.
It’s about the economy, and the war in Iraq, and other unresolved matters that have kept the nation on edge. But President Bush’s State of the Union address on Monday is something else, too: probably his last chance to seize the public’s attention and put it to use.
Bush will pressure Congress - particularly the Senate, where he senses trouble - to finish an economic stimulus package fast. He will announce steps he is taking to reduce and reform the use of earmarks - a common Capitol Hill practice of slipping pet projects into spending bills, saying that if the items are worthy, lawmakers should debate them in the open and hold a public vote.
The president will talk of improved security in Iraq and reassert that he decides when U.S. troops will come. He will offer some modest new ideas and recycle others as unfinished business. To the degree the speech favors the pragmatic over the bold, the White House offers a two-word explanation: Blame Congress.
Funny. The only time we truly have a democratic majority is when there’s blame to be laid.
I predict a SOTU like no other. I predict Keith Olberman will have to dedicate an entire hour for special commentary. What’s Bush got to lose? He’ll certainly use the time to push for a continued republican presence in the WH after he’s gone. And he’ll do it by bashing the “democratic” congress and speaking ill of Obama and Clinton, (who will also be in attendance tonight).
My fellow Americans; if it walks and talks, and has a ‘D’ behind it’s name, there is the source of all your woes!
And people will buy it.
UPDATE
From a related WaPo article, The Bushies will be “stacking the deck”:
But the emphasis is on people like James Barnard, chief financial officer of a Michigan machine shop that benefited from Bush tax cuts in 2003, and Staff Sergeant Craig Charloux, injured in a September raid on al Qaeda militants in Diyala province. Charloux is one of six members of the armed forces on the White House guest list.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Yea, Bush blames Congress and they stand up and applaud him. I guess it was a who’s the biggest idiot contest and Congress won … Bush could have called Congress what they are, a bunch of spineless weasels, and they probably would have stood up and applauded him. The best for me was PocketChange Obama’s post SOTU interview where he got his “Bush’s failed Iraq policy” line in, which sounds really fucking idiotic. If it’s a failed policy, why do you continue to fund it? Because you’re fucking idiots? And then Jim Webb said Bush was merely politically posturing and pandering…so why would you stand up and applaud that? Then how would you describe what you were doing? You know that Bush is bullshitting you and everyone else and you stand up and applaud him? They should all have spineless weasel tattooed on their foreheads. The biggest fucking criminal enterprise to ever occupy the WH and they applaud him like he just saved the world. The people who vote these people into office are the real idiots, they are as dumb as a box of rocks. You deserve to get screwed and you will.