State of Dis-Union

So Shrub's State of the Union Address was last night. I caught parts of it while cooking dinner.

More and more, I'm becoming numb to my contempt of our president. A woman can only be frustrated for so long before she just resigns herself to the situation. Nevertheless, what I have to say about his speech is that it was well written considering everything that is going on inside the GOP and the White House. His speechwriters did a nice job of avoiding most specifics - whether in relation to the war in Iraq, the war on Terror, or anything domestic. As Marc said, it was largely a repeat of the concepts, themes, and statements he's made before. Not only that, but he also repeated some of the same tactics and tools in the speech - quoting a dying soldier's letter, etc. Largely it was an unmemorable and unremarkable speech.

Maybe instead of wasting our time last night (and pre-empting Boston Legal), Bush should have returned to the Jeffersonian tradition of writing a letter to Congress. This would avoid him having to try to talk (good Lord, that man is a poor speaker and has 0 ability to read a teleprompter) and would save the taxpayers all the money that securing the Capitol requires. Just a thought