AP: Obama's goal: Get agenda moving, people believing A new President necessitates new rules for the SOTU Drinking Game. middle class - 1 sip recovery - 1 sip health care - 2 sips deficit - 3 sips What else?
If he says 'bipartisan' more than twice Im breaking out the Malort. It takes two to tango and the Reps refuse to dance.
what about everytime he mentions himself? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9UIpW_3P5s&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- You Probably Think This Speech is About You[/ame]
Make no mistake Let me be perfectly clear Policies of the last 8 years Inherited Status Quo Our actions averted another great depression
Then why watch? Seriously. If it's going to upset you so much do something else. It's not like he's going to say something unpredictable or momentous and if he does, you'll hear about it soon enough.
no one should take this shit so seriously. the proles just need to go about their normal, every day business, and pay no attention to the man behind the mask, manipulating the strings of government at his will.
I could say the same thing about watching DC United in recent years. But that I watch too for the same reason I'll watch tonight: I just can't not. And, of course, don't discount the masochistic thrill and the pleasure of complaining afterward.
I think he's going to talk about educator accountability. That always goes over well with both sides.
Sip every time there's a standing ovation from the Democrats -- two sips if both Republicans and Democrats stand. Watching the crowd in previous SOTUs was like watching a bunch of jack-in-the-boxes -- I bet it continues from the other side of the aisle now.
My bookie has just lowered the odds from 500-1 to 100-1 that he utters "suck it" at some point.. needless to say, I took some action on that
You'll die. I wish he would tell America the truth. That none of the choices before us are good one, that we have to choose between things like supporting Social Security/Medicare for retirees and not having a big deficit/large deficit. Because you can't have both. I wish he'd tell America that you can't have both an economic recovery and a small government, because government spending is what's propping up the economy right now. You can either have higher unemployment or you can have higher government spending and more government in the economy. There is nothing in between. But for some reason, I don't think that's going to happen. I think the President is going to tell us we're going to have it all.
Well in that case, they should've never published this chart at the beginning of their administration: We're not out of the woods yet.
This is my approach. We'll know soon enough the direction he'll want to go after the SOTU. I never liked watching the SOTU, any way.
We're doing government spending, and according to the Obama Administration's own early 2009 prediction selling the stimulus plan, the government spending is producing a worse result than what no government spending would've done to the unemployment rate. Which means one of two things: 1.) Government spending is hurting the economy and employment (which is not true, but based on the result of their own chart that is one hypothesis), or 2.) They completely misread the economy when they took the reins of control a year ago. (they've said this, but what's that mean for which of their policies were right and wrong?) Fixing the economy is not spending. Spending can help short-term, but it doesn't fix structural problems, it just papers over them like Greenspan's rate cuts to get us out of the dotcom recession at the beginning of the last decade. Our country's long-term health is dependent on fixing longstanding structural problems, some of which have been third rails in American politics. Some of these issues are ignored by both parties because it means asking their constituents to accept pain and a decrease in their standard of living. When we have spineless politicians that aren't honest with their constituents, well, no wonder we are where we are now.
They aren't mutually exclusive. You can address long term structural issues AND provide keynesian stimulus. It will be interesting if he addresses any of the big three in our budget tonight.