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Ugh.

I thought maybe I’d blog a few comments on Shrubya’s Lie of the State address tonight, but after about the first five minutes of listening to it on the radio, I realized that I just wouldn’t be able to stomach it. (And that’s even without looking at his smug, smirking, arrogant mug.)

His transparently butt-kissing comment on having the privilege of being the first Decider-in-Chief to use the term “Madam Speaker” was sickening enough (not to mention his specious claim that “inflation is low”), but to listen to him blather his lie that Uncle Sam’s deficit has been cut in half three years shy of the appointed year of 2009 and preach the necessity of balancing the budget and “tak[ing] on the challenge of entitlements” was enough to make me want to puke on the floor. Not that I’m opposed to cutting entitlements (if that is indeed what Bush was alluding to)—every last one of the U.S. Federal Megastate’s welfare schemes should be phased out as soon as possible. It’s the blatant political maneuvering that I find so galling.

Where was all his talk of fiscal discipline the last several years, when his own party had majorities in both houses of Congress? If I recall correctly, they were busy expanding entitlements, such as adding the costly prescription drug benefit, not to mention looting the taxpayer through two of the single biggest, most bloated pork barrel projects in U.S. history—Homeland Security and the Iraq War. But now that the opposing party has the majority, Bush suddenly has the urge to “impose spending discipline.”

Now—after years of refusing to veto all but one single spending bill and collaborating with his fellow Republicrats in piling up trillions of dollars in debt to stuff the pockets of his various corporate buddies—he thinks he gets to contrast himself against the “liberal” Democrats as a man of free enterprise and small government in the hopes of scoring political points for his party in the process.

Barf.

Let’s just hope that all this resolves itself into the next best thing if we can’t permanently limit state power: Gridlock.

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Mark Davis Says:
January 24th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I went through the same thing. After Bush went straight from telling lies about inflation, cutting the deficit and the need to balance the budget into all the wonderful spending he was going to do, I just couldn’t take it anymore. The idiots clapping on que were especially nerve racking.

When inaction (through gridlock) is the best a system can do, then it’s far past time to scrap that system. Yet the sheeple just keep on worshipping it like “it don’t get no better”.
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January 24th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Watching a political “address” is like a creepy freak show where people have cosmetic surgery to disfigure themelves, or a car acccident - you can’t help but look, but then afterword you’re sorry you did. You’ll never get that half hour of your life back! Stop wasting precious moments of your life by watching this crap! A nap is highly preferable.

Sheeple? geez, yes. There’s no end to their pathetic justifications for staying unconscious: “It’s not that bad.” “They must know something we don’t know.” “They went to college to learn to run the country - they mean well.” “We have to work together.” Ugh is right
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