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Jocotepec, Mexico
I've managed to sit still through a few state of the union speeches, through the remarks of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, one Bush (the pappy, I never could gut out one of The Dub's ) and a Clinton. Brother Clinton finished me off, made me give up on state of the union speeches altogether.
Still, there was the off chance (OK, vain hope) that Obama might come out swinging in the wake of the Massachusetts massacre and the Supreme's recent sale of Congress to corporations. As in: The senator from Wal-Mart now has the floor. So I poured myself a stiff one and fell into a deep cush recliner in front of a mongo brain-wrapping TV screen. Not that I would ever own one, mind you. I watch it at my friend and fellow writer Fred Reed's house. That way he gets the rap for being a torpid brainwashed American pig.
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Complete line by line commentary on the SOTU at the link.
E.g:
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That's why I've called for a bipartisan fiscal commission
Which should work about as well as all the other bipartisan commissions we use to blow smoke up your ass ... assuming I can get it past the Senate, which petty much likes things the way they are.
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From some on the right, I expect we'll hear a different argument -- that if we just make fewer investments in our people, extend tax cuts for wealthier Americans, eliminate more regulations and maintain the status quo on health care, our deficits will go away. The problem is, that's what we did for eight years.
Translation: I'm trying to pull it off, but your boy George fouled that pool for us.
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Some of his comments I agreed with, some I didn't. But they are all thought-provoking.
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