I wasn’t going to say anything, seriously, because I didn’t watch the SOTU address last night, but I have read enough about the recaps and shit to get pissed off enough to say something (and Matt S‘s email prompted me to make a public statement… hi Matt!).
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON??!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
First, before we get to the rant, read this, which is from here:
Not surprisingly, the self-proclaimed “war president” spent the first half of his State of the Union Address defending his record on foreign policy issues. But it was the second half, focusing on domestic policy, that included most of the President’s new proposals. In truth, however, even many of those were recycled ideas from last year’s State of the Union or the 2004 campaign, such as a guest worker program for immigrants, expanding the use of health savings accounts, cutting hundreds of programs from the budget to reduce the deficit, extending tax cuts and renewing the Patriot Act.