State of the Union

[lady_kishiria]

I don't know. I didn't watch.

Later edit: And I wasn't asking to be filled in about it.

Actually, I was going to watch, largely in solidarity with shadowcell, who had to watch for school. I had my tequila and glass all ready, but when I came into the TV room, Steve was on the couch with the remote in hand, surfing channels for anything else.

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[shadowcell.livejournal.com]

I forgot to. Meh. I'm sure the Union is just as fucked up now as it was this time last year anyways.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

I heard the Union was on strike...

ttyl

[youngfreud.livejournal.com]

Eh, I had other priorities.

That said, I've heard that Dubya said something about "America is addicted to oil" and we need to wean our economy and energy suppliers off the hydrocarbons and put research into alternative energy sources. At that point, everyone in Congress laughed out loud and Bush himself chunkled while wiped a tear from the corner of his eye, saying "I know, I know".

Now, I don't have a source on that second part, but I'm pretty sure that's what I was thinking and some of you out there in LJ Land are thinking the same thing, right now.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Basic highlights, the US is too addicted to oil (true) and he plans to work to reduce gas prices. (Rigghttttt. I'm sure his buddies and partners in Big Oil will be more than glad to help on that fantasy.)

Oh, and pounded the drums about Iran as well. Meh.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Oh, and

http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/003740.html

[seki-raku.livejournal.com]

We have a Union to address? (*looks about*)

Like there would be anything said that would surprise me at this point. Puleeze.

[azelmaroark.livejournal.com]

I didn't see it, either. And I don't particularly care. ::snicker:: My roommate was wicked pissed off--that's enough for me. I really have become incredibly apathetic about politics; I seem to lose so many friends by getting into it, and it's just not worth it.

Hmm. Probably bad for the pre-law gal. I'll worry about that tomorrow. =P

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

Not the most inspiring of SOTU addresses, but there was some good stuff said. The dependancy on foreign oil issue is one that did need to be addressed and I was actually surprised to see it mentioned at all. The proposed 22% increase in alternative fuel research for the Dept. of Energy is something else I didn't expect to see, but I also see it getting shot down out of pure spite in Congress just because of who proposed it.

Staying the course in Iraq was in there, too, which I am all about because hegemony is established one conquest at a time, and if we can complete the absorption of Iraq, then annexing Canada is going to be cake. j/k ^_-

Hilarity ensued with the Democratic rebuttal. As weak and pathetic as their party is, they could not have advertised their utter lack of anything remotely resembling a strategy that isn't "We hate Bush, but we don't know what to do about anything ourselves except hate Bush" more than by choosing the slack-jawed governor of Virginia, Tommy Kaine, to be the spokesman, who then said precisely what I just did in the quotes. The only way it could have been worse for the Democrats would be to have put Pelosi in. They also blandly shot themselves in the sack by applauding uproariously when Social Security reform (that didn't occur) was brought up. Zero spine, zero tactical initiative, zero clue as to what they would do if they win in 2008. That's enough zeroes to drive me away for the next thousand years; depending on who the Republicans front for 2008, I'll vote Libertarian before I'll vote a Democrat in.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people only vote Democrat because they're not Republicans, not for any belief in what the Democrats stand for...which is nothing, at this point. I *know* the Republicans stand for a long list of things that I don't believe in, with their obsession with enforcing a particular kind of Christianity on the population at the top. Aside from knowing that the Democrats don't want to re-criminalize abortion, what are they there for? They don't support same sex marriage; Clinton signed the DOMA. They voted for the war in Iraq and then claimed they were duped. They say they want to speak for the people and then keep bringing in elitist candidates. They vocally oppose Alito, but he got rubber-stamped in. Their one success was Bill Clinton because he could pull off being "bubba". The Republicans understand populism, the Democrats don't.

I live in terror of the thought of the next election being Rice vs Clinton. Either one of them as president is enough to make me say, fuck my oath, I'm going to Mexico (since Canada would send me back).

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I should say ALMOST enough to make me say fuck my oath. I'm pretty lawful-good and rule abiding, so...

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

I had every faith your integrity would win the day. ^_^

It's little moments like the Rice vs. Clinton matchup you mentioned compounded with the knowledge that only a fraction of the voting-age population will vote, that makes me wish the Service in real life was like the CoDominium's from Pournelle: No Politics in the Fleet.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Not sure what you're saying here, boss, having never read Pournelle. Are you saying soldiers shouldn't have politics, because I'd have to disagree strenuously with that. I'm with Heinlein there in that we have a *special right* to them.