Bush's State of the Union speech in a nutshell: A Presidency running on empty

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Out of Gas
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

There it was last night, for all the world to see: A presidency running on empty.

In his final State of the Union address, President Bush had almost nothing to say. Certainly nothing new and significant. Nothing remotely memorable.

It's a safe bet that nothing he said last night will amount to much. Nothing he said will help bring the country together, or undo the damage he has done to American interests abroad. Nothing he said will help him win back the trust or support of the American people, both which he lost a long time ago.

On the traditional State of the Union litany of subjects, his repetition of familiar and sometimes delusional talking points conveyed a clear, though unintended message: That those looking for meaningful progress on the key issues facing our nation and our world today will have to wait for the next president....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/01/29/BL2008012901447.html?hpid=topnews

[robinlynne]

1. Ah, but read Greg Palast's beautiful breakdown! below:

quoted from an email received this morning from Greg Palast:

In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.

Here’s your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of them. OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire? That’s right, Richie, $287,000 apiece.

[Supersedeas]

2. progress -- the definition of conservative is status quo: keeping Blue Bloods Blue