In the left corner, we have Barack Obama. . . the Kenyan Nightmare. . . he floats like butter and stings like a B student at Grade Inflation University. Weighing in at 98 pounds, his best punch is a sucker punch recently renamed the Tucson Exploiter by his manager, Joey "Half-Truth" Biden. Barack lost his prior match to Ryan in a first round knock out at health care arena and has been on a career slide ever since. Tonight, he looks for a little revenge.
In the right corner, we have Paul “the Brain” Ryan, the pride of Wisconsin. Weighing in at 140 pounds, Ryan shows that brain beats brawn every time. His best punch is the Principled Hook, which he combines with the Factoid Jab for a devastating 1-2 combination. Managed by John "Tan King" Boehner, Ryan is fast, smart and a real up and comer. His goal tonight will be to take down Obama and prove that he deserves a title fight.
Tonight’s guest judges are the American people, who will be keeping score at home. And you're invited to talk about it here!
Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!!!!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
SOTU: It's Fight Night!!
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1 – 200 of 228 Newer› Newest»Lol! I'll be here tonight. I hear Obama keeps changing what he's going to say because whatever it is isn't working! Go Ryan!
Hey, don't forget Michele Bachmann, who has somehow managed to carve out a second right corner and will be jumping up and down during the fight and going, "Hey! I'm here too!"
T-Rav, I heard she was going to speak, but then I never heard any details about it. Where/when is she speaking?
Ed, I'll be here too. If you have any pre-SOTU thoughts, feel free to share those too.
Obama is going with 5 year spending freeze. Nice try, although he must have read your piece about giving away his bargaining position on healthcare. At least he is trying to start with "no cuts" instead of the old "reduction in the level of increase" in defeference to the ass kicking that was delivered back in November
Jed, There are moments that I honestly wonder if he isn't trying to do the right thing. . . but then that passes and I remember that he's a Democrat.
In terms of the freeze itself... a five year freeze is nice, but it's hardly enough considering how much the budget run up in the past 2-3 years. They should set the budget back to 2006. Then I would be impressed.
Bachman's address will be streamed at Teaparty Express website
I can't... I just can't do it... >>sob<< I can't take it...
Andrew - he is trying to do the right thing as he sees it. Unfortunately, that way crushes individual liberty and freedoms and keeps our economy from rebounding.
Crispy, There's no shame in that. He's hard to take. And expect there's going to be a lot of manipulation, especially as he rehashed Tucson and when he tries to tell us about Jane Smith who no longer enjoys Christmas because Republicans took away her health care.
Jed, That is indeed the problem, that even his good faith best efforts aren't things we want. Still, I have to give him credit for changing the way he's been acting. He's suggesting things now that the 2008 Obama wouldn't even have considered.
Andrew, like Jed said, it'll be streaming on the Tea Party website, and won't start until Ryan is done speaking. Incidentally, I actually do like Bachmann, even though some people think of her as a lightweight--how can you not like someone who goes out of her way to tweak Chris Matthews on his own show?--but I don't see the point of giving a separate Tea Party rebuttal. If the GOP was already going back to its RINO ways, that would be different; as it is, I think a show of unity is more productive just now.
There was a little bit of speculation earlier that Bachmann might be getting some revenge on Ryan for not backing her for Caucus Chair, but that seems too petty. I think it's probably a sincere, if misguided, act on her part.
T_Rav, I like Bachmann and I've never considered her a lightweight, though I have heard the charge.
I agree about the need for a separate Tea Party rebuttal -- right now is not the time because the Republicans are doing pretty well.
I also have some trepidation about these Tea Party groups that seem to be behind a lot of the Washington Tea Party activities. They seem out of place to me with the spirit of what made the Tea Party what it was. In other words, whereas the Tea Party seemed to be millions of individuals taking politics into their own hands, groups like the Tea Party Express seem more like old-school lobbyists (e.g. Dick Armey) trying use the Tea Party as a vehicle for their own goals. . . which is why they keep making bombastic and misplaced statements and gestures -- to stay in the news cycle.
I find the troubling.
Crispy - I am with you. I am not sure that I can actually watch it all the way through, but I will be online and will comment anyway. I really want to see Boehner behind Obama and Fancy Nancy in the audience. I will drink to that!
Andrew and T-Rav - I agree about the separate Tea Party rebuttal and what you say about the Tea Party Express lobby stuff. That is exactly what they are trying to do. Harness the whole thing for their own gain. Many of the smaller groups are doing the same thing on local level. It's annoying. But I also chalk it up to "group" dynamics. Why I've never been a "joiner".
Bev, I've never been a joiner for the same reason -- group dynamics stink. . . too many free riders and too many people ready to use the group for their own purposes. Plus, groups stifle creativity and make progress painfully slow.
In terms of the DC Tea Party people, I've seen several instances already where I find myself scratching my head, thinking "I don't think actual Tea Party people would agree with that." And each time, the person behind the statement is some "former" lobbyist.
I found it interesting too that so many House members stayed away from the Tea Party caucus. In fact, I think that's a very good sign. Forming a caucus just makes the Tea Party into nothing more than another interest group. The Tea Party is much better off staying harder to quantify, as a set of beliefs shared by an unknown number of engaged voters.
Andrew - I agree about the Tea Party Caucus. It's just another platform for Michelle Bachmann. But that being said, I have been invited by our TP group (TeaParty365) to be in the gallery at the first Caucus session in DC. If it doesn't snow too badly, I am going to go. I will report on it.
I just found out Carol Browner has resigned from the Energy and Enviroment Czar post and there is no new name to replace her. Elections do have consequences.
Browner, as some of you know, is an enviromentalist as well as a socialist. She was behind the second-hand smoke hoax. She is notorious for intimidating Auto execs into keeping nothing in writing.
She is also responsible for banning inhalers. The inhalers used by asthma sufferers to relieve asthma attacks. Used properly they are a life-saver. That is before the ban. The reason? The old inhalers used CFC's as a propellant. CFC's supposedly destroy the Ozone layer. Still, they weren't banned because they were an exempt medical device. The current ones are pathetic.
Maybe Barry Soetoro will nominate a new czar tonight?
Bev, Cool! I look forward to your report!
(And if you happen upon Nancy Pelosi on the trip, don't forget to point and laugh! :-) )
Actually, I can't wait to see all of our Congresscritters holding hands and sing "Kumbaya"! Did you hear that Nancy snubbed Eric Cantor's invitation to sit together? Yep, she had another date for the Prom and turned him down cold.
It is also rumored that the Supremes will not make an appearance. Oh, that's Justices, not the singing group.
Joel, That sounds like good riddance to bad garbage! I hadn't heard that about the inhalers, but that's really insane.
I would say, let's hope they get someone better, but I doubt he'll nominate anyone better. Still, it will make an interesting test of the new senate!
Thanks for the information.
(I wonder why she resigned today? Odd timing.)
Bev, I've been seeing that for a couple weeks that the Supreme's weren't coming -- good for them. They don't need the political grief!
I just saw that about Cantor and Pelosi. So much for this "can't we all just get along" business. . . apparently, they can't. LOL!
I vote for Algore for the new Energy and Environment Czar! He's got experience, so his learning curve would be pretty steep. It might look like that hocky stick graph even. AND he invented the interwebs...
Andrew,
(I wonder why she resigned today? Odd timing.)
Issa's investigations are going to be starting soon.
As to the Tea Party Caucus?
Initially I thought they were a good idea, but now.... not so much. Maybe it is because there is a Congressional Black Caucus and it would be too easy for pundits to call the Tea Party Caucus the Congressional White Caucus. Blacks need not apply. Cynical of me? Why not?
Joel, I just don't like the idea of isolating them from the rest of the Congress. Because that way they go from being an idea that all of Congress should respect and fear to being a small group of House members. I think it's better to keep the whole thing nebulous.
Bev, I like the selection of Algore. Or Chicken Little! Both would seem appropriate. LOL!
Bev, that's quite an honor!
I'm with you, I'm really not sure I can stand the smarminess that will certainly be Barack Obama tonight (and all other nights). I'm more interested in seeing Paul Ryan's rebuttal--and yet for that to have force, I have to watch at least some of Obama's actual speech. (sigh) Conundrums...
I've finished my shopping trek, put the horses and the covered wagon in the barn, and I'm ready for the hot air from DC. I'm far more interested in how Ryan does than I am about our Bloviator-in-Chief.
Oh, and Andrew, I hadn't heard that none of the Justices would be coming. I knew Alito, Scalia, and Thomas wouldn't, which makes me like them even more, but it seemed more ambiguous where the others were concerned. I hope it's true, because I think it would look bad if they split their attendance along ideological lines. Honestly, they should all stay away after that stunt last year. Political grandstanding during a national address and then attacking Alito just demonstrated how politically juvenile Obama can be, and a unanimous absence would be a pointed reply to his behavior.
Bev - I'm with you on algore, the fondler. Remember, he has demonstrable skills in secret cash raising from Pacific rim countries. These skills could truly help to make us even more owned by PRC.
Jed, You cynic! But now that you mention it. . . he's also got proven skills when it comes to turning a huge profit based on false science, so maybe he should be secretary of commerce or something instead?
T_Rav, I don't know if it's all of them or not, but I agree -- it should be all or nothing. An ideological split would look bad for the court.
And like you and Lawhawk, I'm really only interested in Ryan's response. Obama doesn't interest me anymore.
I have my pitcher of martinis ready and I will be watching. Hopefully the vodka martinis will help deaden the pain. But at least I won't have to look at Nancy's maniacal smile in the background.
WriterX: I hope you're not following Rush's advice and taking a drink each time the Obamassiah says "investment" and "civility."
Writer X: You're so classy! I gonna drink right out of the bottle. I don't think I'll have time to pour...
Okay, the Senate is coming into the House two by two. It's like Noah's Ark! They weren't holding hands though...
Since the SOTU will begin soon, I would just like to take this moment to remind everyone not to start any drinking games that involve taking a drink every time Obama mouths phrases such as "Let me be clear" or "We need to make some hard choices." Alcohol poisoning is a terrible thing.
T-Rav - I add to that "I". That could kill ya'!
Sorry guys and gals I can’t deal with Barry spewing his faux centrist BS. I’ll read, and hear about it tomorrow.
I agree, I don’t like Dick Army and others trying to corral the Tea Party, and call it their own, not cool. It works better as a fluid, moving, impossible to hit political target, or as you say nebulous. Statist Washington, both sides are scared to death of the Tea Party, we need to keep it that way.
Hey, who's that dude in Nancy's seat?! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
They are wearing ribbons in remember Rep. Gifford and to show solidarity in civility.
THe Supremes did show!
Hubby's watching a movie...any word on the supremes yet?
Dude, we all wore the same thing? Who knew black robes would be so popular?
you beat me to it. Thanks Bev.
Tam, No Scalia and no Thomas. I didn't hear if Roberts was there, but the rest are.
I love Jim DeMint...
"We need cuts, not a freeze. When a car speeds toward a cliff, you hit the brakes, not cruise control."
LawHawk, how about shots after "innovation" and "we have to return to civility"?
Bev, drinking straight from the bottle works in a pinch too.
Enjoy!
Roberts is there. Is Alito?
Bev, that would be "no." Only six of them are there.
Okay, I just can't do it...I will watch the rebuttal.
Yawn....
Boehner looks like he is about to throw up.
I have it on live stream from Fox News, but I have the sound turned off. :)
Someone must have told him to use "We", not "I". I don't think I have every heard him us "We" so much.
Who writes his speeches? Talk about Dullsville!
If they re-wrote "Gone With the Wind," it would sound like a manual on how to assemble a printer.
At least a printer's manual is useful.
"The world ain't what it used to be. When I was young, you could have a job. But not today... nope. The rules have changed. The steel mills are gone and robots will soon rule the earth."
Yes, but none of them can tell you where Montana is...
Andrew, LOL!! Suck it Nancy!
This sounds like he's reading from an encyclopedia.. . . and he's just randomly flipping through different pages.
Did you know there was a China?
Did you know we had pioneers?
Hey, is this microphone on? Why are you all sleeping.
We're the nation of Facebook? Thanks, now I'm feeling suicidal.
Biden reminds me of Jeff Dunham's Walter. Dunham is a ventriloquist with Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
NASA didn't exist before Sputnik?
Bev, Alito had a pre-scheduled speaking commitment in Hawaii, from what I hear. Scalia and Thomas were the ones who said they weren't going to be there because--well, they didn't want to. (By the way, if anyone should have told Obama "screw you" and stayed home over last year, it'd be Anthony Kennedy, who actually wrote that campaign finance decision.)
SPUTNIK!!!!!
My God, this is like an idiot randomly talking about their view of American history.
The Soviets whipped us good, until we showed them.
Did you know that Sputnik was the name of a car we put in a drive way?
America once created computers.
Immigrants washed up on our shores.
I have a budget.
You could once have a job for life?
Two guys in Michigan run a roofing company, but they got hit by the recession. Now they make solar shingles.
Reinvent people. Be smarter. Stop being idiots. Start making jobs.
Have some money.
Assemble scientists.
We'll fund you to create an Appollo project.
Turn sunlight into car fuel.
Turn up the nuclear power! Give me biofuel!
This is awful!!!!!!
No Bev, NASA was created by a student loan given to a guy in Michigan after China developed steel mills.
Joel, Nice catch. I need high def to look for strings!
John Boehner literally looks like he's about to fall asleep. Strange, considering all these witty and entertaining one-liners POTUS is trotting out. Wait--80% of America's energy will be renewable by 2035? Did he seriously just say that?
Biden IS Walter! You're right.
"Our kids is stupid."
If I was going to write a speech of worn-out platitudes strung together randomly, this would be it.
If he says, "you gotta give 110%," I'm turning over to Star Trek."
My God, someone needs to get RLM's Larry Plinkett to review this address. At least I'd die laughing.
At least this year the Democrats aren't popping up after every sentence.
"We know what's possible from our children... read that Tiger Mom book!"
I'd settle for a educational system that teaches our children to read, write, and arithmetic. Can't we start there?
T-Rav, That would be awesome!
Joel, No one's jumping up because he's not saying anything that makes sense. He's just spewing simplistic generality.
"Education is good."
"Food poisoning is bad."
"Love your kids, don't eat them."
"We want to reward good things."
"But low, sell high."
Does this mean we're going to be renaming them "nation-builders' unions"?
T-Rav, Yep. And we're sending them all to Korea.
Hey, what a coincidence that the woman he's picked randomly out of the country just happened to get tickets to tonight?!
Even Michelle can't bring herself to clap with any enthusiasm.
"Not just because the furniture jobs are gone..."
No, I'm pretty sure it's because the furniture jobs are gone.
OH MY @#%#@#&^%!!! Undocumented workers' kids are living in fear?!
If you're a Democrat and you needed illegal immigrants voting for you to win, stand up!
We don't need more infrastructure, we need CHEAP LABOR!!!!!
I've got a better idea. Can we build a wall or fence or something on the border, and then worry about whether all the undocumented kids here have had their feelings hurt?
Let's double down on stupid! Woo hoo!
Andrew, was Harry Reid one of those standing up at that line? Oh, speak of the devil (literally)...
Looks like Pelosi has Coffin-Hair.
What China, Korea, and India have that we don't - CHEAP LABOR!
This sounds like an IBM commercial. "On you can download porn faster than ever before."
And don't forget it'll be much easier for the student and firefighter and all them to download porn that way.
Bev, what's cheap labor? Can you find that on a high speed train that sends blueprints to firemen?
OH! So now lowering the corporate taxes is a good thing and won't hurt the deficit. Did he say the opposite just last month???
How are we going to double our exports by 2014? Is this the same math that said we'd extend health coverage to everyone in the country while saving taxpayers money?
Unnecessary rules like UNION RULES????
If our food, water and air is clean, then drop the EPA.
And f&^$%$ you speed limit laws you safety Nazi.
And YOU PASSED A LAW THAT LETS THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY EXPLOIT PATIENTS YOU PIECE OF LYING SH~T!!!!!
How does ObamaCare do any of that?
Let's repeal what needs repealing and let's move forward.
OH HA HA HA!! He made a funny about health care!
"If you have ideas about how to make care better..."
Apparently he has too much of a short-term memory to recall Mr. Ryan.
Please make him stop. Please make him stop.
Bev, This is all blurring together. He's just throwing out heaps of BS and my mind is going numb.
Wow, $400 billion in 10 years! That's all of 0.4% of the budget!
Why don't we CUT spending to Dwight Eisenhower's budget.
Andrew, it sounds like you're losing your temper with The One. He just doesn't want us to go back to the past when only millionaires could get health care and insurance companies were tools of Satan and so on and so on...
Is NPR one of our most vulnerable citizens?
Bev, pinch yourself and throw some water on your face, and it'll all be over. All these words will suddenly form themselves into coherent sentences.
WHAT CUTS HAS HE PROPOSES???? WHERE ARE THESE CUTS THAT HE HAS PROPOSED????? WHERE, WHERE, WHERE?????
T-Rav, It's hard not to lose your patience with a man who is so full of crap. He hasn't said a truthful or relevant thing in an hour now, and he's getting into fantasy land.
He should be running a game show, not a government.
That's because you screwed with the numbers you gave the CBO, you stupid stupid idiot!!! %@#$&@!^(#@)^?^!!!!!
He has now veered sharply into socialism.
F*&%$ YOU, MR. PRESIDENT!
Something-something-wealthiest 2% of Americans something-something-millionaires tax breaks something-something-giving up their privileges. Oh my head hurts...oh my head hurts...
Apparently the best thing we could do for the the tax code is to get OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION APPOINTEES AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO PAY THEIR DAMN TAXES!!!!
If all of this is true, then WHY DIDN'T YOU FIX IT? YOU HAVE THE POWER?!!!!
Black-and-white TV? Whaaaa????
Yes, let's all laugh nervously at a fish joke. That's the most clever thing he's said all night.
Oops, "smoked salmon" didn't get the huge laugh and applause he was expecting...That's what we in the "business" call a pregnant pause.
he made a funny! ALL IS FORGIVEN!!
not...
I will create a proposal that remakes the government into a form that burns only oxygen and spits out unicorns. . . you'll see. It will be prefect. Trust me. I can't tell you how this will work, but it will happen.
Bev, All of his "jokes" have failed tonight. Every single one.
What will he veto?
"I've asked Congress to do what the White House has already done--put the information online." Oh, but also manipulate the information, and sometimes lie and don't put it up at all. Yeah, just like the White House does.
"No one superpower opposes us."
Except China.
That's the world's longest meaningless sentence.
i feel renewed. i feel restored. why can't you people just get on board with this man?!
Yes, Iraq is a paradise and tomorrow we're all going there for a pizza party.
Yes! Our soldiers leave with their heads held high. It's our President who bows to dictators.
"All of his 'jokes' have failed tonight. Every single one."
Including the one at the podium.
Patti! Drink something, We're losing you!!! Speak to me, speak to me. Turn away from the television!!!
Oh, dang, you mean Muslims in America were all outcasts before? Gee, I never noticed. I guess I should have after everybody wanting to build that nice little mosque in lower Manhattan was stoned and publicly burned...oh wait.
I don't even know what to say to this horsepoop.
"Their safe havens are shrinking."
That's what she said!
If only ANY of this was true.
START Treaty=worst foreign policy idea of the past decade. Don't bring up DADT repeal, don't bring up DADT repeal...
Wait a minute.... I get it. He's selling a novel he wrote: "How My Presidency Should Have Gone."
"....rob people of opportunity."
ah! now i see what he's doing. clever.
Um, we're Americans. We don't really care about Sudan. And YOU supported that dictator until he left the country.
Good point Patti. I think you've put your finger on it.
Okay, in all seriousness, Obama, are you sure you want to go down this road right now? I mean, maybe you want to let the smoke clear in Tunisia first...no? Okay.
I knew he would suck, but I never realize how badly he would suck. I'm anxious to hear the responses; never have the pickings been so easy. He doesn't give a rat's butt about the military.
andrew: i downed a couple of shots and it all come clear. thanks for the tip bev ;)
I think I've heard enough to grade the speech:
Substance: 0
Style: 0
Clarity: 0
Total score: 0/100
Wait a minute, the Tunisans are gay?
who do you think will be the first lap dog to say he "hit a home run."
Arrrghhhh!!! He brought it up! Stupid! "Because of who they love..." At least he called on campuses to open their doors back up to ROTC. That's something, I guess.
Thank God. It's almost over!! That sounds like a closing, doesn't it??
Andrew, apparently so are the Egyptians. :-)
blech blech blech blech blech
So is high speed rail bad then because it knocks down homes?
i'm out. this was fun, but i have some designers to watch on bravo!
what happened to "elections have consequences," bam bam?
Is he skipping around in his speech? No real speechwriter could possibly have put this turkey together?
We like John B. We don't like Joey B.
"We may differ on how we interpret the Constitution..."
Yes, sometimes I hallucinate and think I see rights to abortion and health care in the Bill of Rights.
standing O for Boehner! yay!
please Boehner, don't cry, . . . please
I thought he was almost finished...MAKE HIM STOP!!!!
Rebuttal by AndrewPrice:
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Good God! For your own sanity, ignore everything you just heard. We'll fix the government and you can send clownboy home in 2012. Thank you. Good night."
That's because the gov't wasn't "studying"
I missed the first half hour watching Rush on the Haney project, but this is the most god awful speech I've ever heard.
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I can't take his psuedo-seriousness. Blech blech blech
I missed the first half hour watching Rush on the Haney project, but this is the most god awful speech I've ever heard.
we do big things. we build stuff. we invent stuff. it's big
An hour and two minutes. Well, that could have been worse.
thank, God!
THANK GOD!!! Finally it's over. What a load of smoked salmon...
Even excluding the partisan ideas, this was EASILY the worst SOTU speech I've EVER heard.
I've heard better speeches by the criminally insane.
Andrew, I would like to add to your last post the following:
Shut up!
Seriously, he would have done better smoking a joint and then just speaking off the top of his head.
I would honestly fire his speech writers the minute I got back to my office.
Well, THAT wasn't so bad.
On the plus side - THey didn't spend a whole lot of time clapping and laughing at jokes and stuff...
Bev, That's true, because they were just stunned.
T-Rav, ??? Put down the drugs my friend.
And here comes the Fox News panel. I will summarize their reactions as follows:
Charles Krauthammer: It sucked.
Kirsten Powers: OMG! I want to have Obama's babies!!
Juan Williams: Totally awesome, except I wished he'd said something about NPR.
Brit Hume: It sucked. Obama needs to embrace Christianity.
All the analysts are walking on egg shells about the speech. They know it sucked.
Andrew, put down the drugs?! How else do you expect me to get through this #@*%^$ without slitting my wrists?
T-Rav, I hear ya.
Come on Paul Ryan! Show them how it's done!
By the way, thread winner of the night over at Hot Air (in my opinion): "Does Obama know the difference between a democracy and a democratic republic?"
Hey, Boehner didn't cry! YEY!
Paul Ryan is cuuute!
Nice tone to start off with: "Hey, Obama's speech didn't TOTALLY suck." Ha ha!
"we agree and we think his health care law would be a great place to start...." ZAP!!!
"Hold all of us accountable." I like that!
unprecedented failure...indeed.
"We owe you a better choice and a different vision!" Woo hoo!
Wow!
swoon.
awseome!!!! tell it like it is, baby!
Nice hammock reference. I also like how he turned the "it's for the children" argument against the Dems.
He went there...he went to Greece, Ireland, UK and Europe. Cool...call out the Socialist ideals.
Wow. I am seriously impressed. That speech was honestly compelling!
"[Free enterprise] has done more to help the poor than any other economic system in history."
ZING!!
Ryan sounds like Reagan. Short, sweet and to the point.
Seriously, wow. If that had been the SOTU speech, I would have rated it the best ever.
Seemed to me like a pretty good speech, though I could be a little biased. I would have liked him to be a little less vague where specific policy proposals were concerned, but then again, he might have lost the audience if he'd gotten too wonkish. Good point from Brit Hume, though: "If you're serious about making cuts, someone's gotta go first."
Seriously, I didn't expect much from Ryan. He said more in five minutes than Obama said all evening.
F-you Juan Williams. That's the standard leftist garbage -- somehow Republicans never seem to get specific enough.
Ryan's speech was a fantastic mix of (1) explanation of why we need to act, (2) greater detail than Obama about what they plan to do, and (3) a stunning demonstration that he understands history and our philosophy and how they all relate.
Oh, re Joel's point: Apparently just before Ryan went on, Katie Couric described Obama's speech as "Reaganesque." In a related story, I will not be watching the CBS Evening News anymore.
T_Rav, That's the new talking point. For two weeks now, we've heard nothing but comparison between Obama and Reagan... in magazines, in newspapers, out of the mouths of the talking heads, and from everyone on the journolist.
Krauthammer makes a good point. I think Obama's going to play chicken with the Republicans on entitlement spending and try to make it look like they're the ones screwing over seniors.
T-Rav, That's probably true, but I think they're ready for it.
Ryan is now the new face of the Republican Party.
I am listening to this live stream from Fox, so I am spared the talking heads.
Andrew, I'm just amused at the lengths the media's willing to go to to keep this meme alive. The defects of Obama's speech should be perfectly obvious, and yet she's going to compare him to Ronald Reagan. Right. Not unless she forgot to add the "Junior" before "esque."
Oh, by the way, where's LawHawk tonight?
Did you see Frank Lutz's focus group? They hated the speech almost universally.
Oh, my god, that was painful to watch. And I kept getting distracted by Biden. Why does he always act like he's at a carnival?! Next time somebody give him a big lollipop.
My take: It was like watching somebody running for student council. I'm surprised he didn't promise everybody free pizza on Fridays. Long on pretty words; short on substance. Not a huge surprise.
Ooh! Obama's SOTU got slammed by Frank Lutz's opinion group on Hannity! I don't know if the group tilts Republican, but this is brutal.
And I thought Harry Reid was going to choke on his own saliva when he mentioned he wouldn't sign any bills with earmarks. We'll see how long that lasts!
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