Tuesday, January 31, 2006

State of the Union: Bored

I didn't really expect anything different, but the State of the Union address is really, really boring. Bush isn't saying anything. So far I've got:
  • Terrorism: Bad
  • Democracy: Good
  • Unrelatedly, Hamas should stop blowing stuff up
  • Support our troops
  • Strong ecomony: Good
  • Government waste: Bad
  • Doing something about social security and medicare costs, which constitute over 60% of the budget, might be a good idea.
  • We should talk about that. We'll even include the Democrats. At least, you know, in the talking part. Probably not in the doing stuff part though.
  • Secure the border
  • Expensive healthcare: Bad
  • We use oil. God put all the oil underneath mean people. This seems bad.
  • Corn is good.
  • I had this dream where we had magical cars that ran, not on oil, but on dreams. Wouldn't that be cool?
  • Math and Science: Good
  • Funding basic science seems like a good idea. Maybe we shouldn't have cut all that research spending. To be fair, we had to make a token effort to make it look like we were paying for the tax cuts.
  • Being nice: Good.
  • Yay Sandra Day O'Connor.
  • Life: Good.
  • Ethics: Good.
  • Staying in school: Good.
  • Rebuilding Gulf Coast: Good.
  • HIV: Bad.
  • Americans: Good.

The only really controversial things he's said are:

  • Immigrants: necessary
  • The tax cuts that we made temporary so that it wouldn't explode budget estimates should (surprise!) be made permanent
  • We will cut the deficit in half by 2009. Somehow. We didn't tell you before, but we have a magic powder that will do this that we got from a pixie.
  • We're helping the poor and sick. No, really, I swear. Just don't ask me for evidence of it.
  • Your doctor's bill and prescriptions are expensive because your doctor gets sued a lot.
  • Teenagers are having fewer abortions because we told them not to have sex.
  • People spend a lot of time worrying about courts that don't tell gay people God hates them.
  • 'Member how I put two new members on the Supreme Court? That was cool.
  • I like my wife. You should let her do stuff.
  • Church groups who have never dealt with AIDS education seem the best people to deal with the problem, don't you think? They seem to have a firm grasp on reality, I've found.
  • I'm like MLK.

Curious to see if the rebuttal will say anything more substantial. If I had to guess, I'd go with "no."

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