The SOTU in 5 minutes - with a little more truth

[papau]

Please note that in your programs for tonight, Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction-RELATED-Program-Activites" (WMDRPA) replaces
,"Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Activities" (WMDPA)-

Now we assert (knowing the media will never note proof to the contrary) that:

America is great and getting better;

We, Iraq, and the world are safer without Saddam Hussein as I advance freedom(and isn't Saddam cute as a captive? - that's an image the media will bring you as often as I ask);

Afghanistan is doing fine and the Taliban are gone;

The Leave No Child Behind (the underfunded by $6 billion a year Teach the Test Act) is working for the education system;

Again this year, all government money can be sent to Churches if they support us and we will call the opportunity for getting a piece of those funds Faith-based initiatives;

Since we have run out of room to jail all the poor and minorities and will spend no additional funds for prison, the media will teach you to consider those we release as “Rehabilitated”;

Us role models shouldn't do steroids, and the baseball and football folks agree; so you remember this when the media tells you that I have the "morals and values" crowd on my side.

Preserving individual rights means a Constitutional amendment preventing Gay Marriage is needed if the Courts suggest that the legal living arrangement known as “marriage” is extended to same sex couples; Stepford wives will be given $1.5 billion in “training”; wives of those in the military and the reserve and guard chose to have the marriage difficulties caused by exhaustive, never-ending deployments that allow “visits” of 3 months over 3 years and therefore must not complain;

Now all of you get out of here – the STOU is over – go back to watching the media dump on Dean and anyone else that criticizes me, while they sell me as the president who stood strong after 9/11, who saved the economy by cutting taxes, and who plans to be nice to minorities willing to work for low wages by turning illegal immigrants into citizens (securing a bit more of the Hispanic voters), and who provides the unfunded vision of going back to the moon 20 years from now(ignoring how this will kill Hubble) .

And since the media likes this rich drunk Frat boy, you had better get used to seeing my face serving Thanksgiving turkey to the troops, over and over, as you forget I was AWOL in 1973 and again in 2001.

[liberalmuse]

1. He didn't mention steroids.

Or straights-only marriage. Tell me he didn't. I only listened to a small part of the speech and turned it off because my head couldn't hold all the lies.

Thanks for that summary. Unfortunately, you will be proven correct.

[papau]

2. The above was from snipets I heard - I could not stomach the whole

thing -

The marriage thing for straights - $1.5 billion in training ones wife in obeying, so marriages can stay together - was there. As was the Const. Amendment for stopping gay marriage.

:-)

[nostamj]

5. he did mention steriods

and 'defending the sanctity of marriage'
and even drug testing in schools

[xray s]

3. Well that sums it up for me, thanks!

I was in Botany class last night so I missed the speech. Looks like the plants had more intelligent things to say anyway.

[joshdawg]

4. Well, there are vegetables in this administration.

Bush*, etc., etc. ad nauseum.

[papau]

6. Bush Hails Achievements, Democrats See Broken Promises for Families,

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAYXUHHPPD.html

Bush Hails Achievements, Democrats See Broken Promises for Families, Foreign Affairs, Budget
By Alan Fram
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Laying out campaign themes, President Bush is hailing progress fighting terrorism, recharging the economy and helping Americans afford health care. But Democrats say his election-year State of the Union address underscores how paltry his achievements have been. <snip>
Even as Democrats scrapped among themselves over who would oppose him in November, the president touted his administration's successes: the toppling and capture of Saddam Hussein, the revival of economic growth, and the passage of major tax cuts and a Medicare prescription drug benefit. <snip>
From Congress to the presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire, where next week's presidential primary will be held, Democrats balked. They said Bush had ignored the job losses, ballooning budget deficits, diplomatic reversals and growing ranks of Americans without health insurance that have characterized his administration.
"He promised us a humble foreign policy. Instead, he's alienated our allies, lost the respect of the world community, and cost 500 brave young men and women their lives" in Iraq, said retired Gen. Wesley Clark. <snip>
He said the nation needed to stay the course against terrorism and admonished those who would "turn back to the dangerous illusion that terrorists are not plotting and outlaw regimes are no threat to us.”<snip>
By far, the most expensive proposal in his speech was one he has made repeatedly: Making his already enacted cuts in personal income and other taxes permanent. That has a price tag estimated at $2 trillion, and an uncertain fate in Congress, considering projections for year after year of huge budget deficits. <snip>

This story can be found at: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAYXUHHPPD.html

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA6LESEPPD.html

From the NYT: <snip>Howard Dean would roll back all the tax cuts and pass new tax breaks aimed at the middle class. His rivals John Kerry, John Edwards, Wesley Clark and Joe Lieberman would keep the tax cuts that helped middle-income families and repeal those benefiting the wealthiest Americans.
Making the tax cuts permanent would cost the Treasury some $2 trillion, according to analysts at the Tax Policy Center, a research group run by the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute. <snip>
Those tax cuts(expiring in 2005) include an expansion of the bottom, 10 percent tax bracket that lowered taxes for virtually every wage earner. It includes changes that eliminated some of the so-called marriage penalty, which causes some couples to pay more than they would as two single individuals. It also includes the child tax credit, just increased to $1,000 per child, which would drop back to $700 at the end of the year. Although these items could be addressed in 2005 after they've expired, House and Senate GOP lawmakers aides said they ideally would eliminate any uncertainty and enact laws this year to sustain the tax cuts. <snip>
Senate Republican aides said renewal of the No Child Left Behind education law might also offer an opportunity to make some education and retirement saving incentives permanent.
A bigger question surrounds a law, designed as an economic stimulus, that allows businesses to immediately write off half of their investments this year. Left unchanged, the law will evaporate at the end of the year, but it will cost more to continue than the tax reductions aimed at individuals and families, said Peter Orszag,
AP-ES-01-21-04 0804EST

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