Bush readies State of the Union speech------conciliatory tone

[rodeodance]

He generally lectures people------!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_state_of_union

Bush readies State of the Union speech

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago

WASHINGTON -
President Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday gives him a second chance to defend his new Iraq strategy to a nation soured on the war and a Congress poised to vote against the plan.

It will be the president's last major opportunity to shape America's legislative agenda before the fast-moving 2008 presidential campaign begins to drown out his message.

Bush is expected to strike a conciliatory tone on some domestic issues where he believes he can work with the first Democratic Congress in 12 years. On Iraq, he is expected to stand firm.

The nationally televised speech typically offers great political theater. This year, however, it comes just 13 days after the president's prime-time announcement of his decision to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq.

[saltpoint]

1. Thank you for this post. It keeps me current and keeps my

eye on the calendar for more than one good reason.

Despite my deep, deep disregard for George W. Bush, he occupies the people's office. Not all U.S. presidents from this point forward will be as dishonest or as insecure or as emotionally limited or as ego-driven or as much of an overt failure as this one. Your post reminds me that the president works for us, not the other way around, that we're entitled to our opinion of the person in office but that we owe some allegiance to the office he holds and which the founders intended for us to have.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that you would post threads that are pertinent and purposeful, rodeodance. But I'm sure glad to see 'em.

[rodeodance]

2. says the war broke the piggy bank-----no new programs

............The costs of the war and the deficit are expected to preclude Bush from announcing expensive new programs.

On the domestic side, the president will propose a tax deduction of $7,500 for individuals and $15,000 for families regardless of whether they buy their own health insurance or receive medical coverage at work.

If passed by Congress, the proposal would be the first time that workers could get a tax break if they bought their own insurance. But it also would be the first time that some employer-provided health care benefits could be taxed. The first $15,000 in health benefits for a family would continue to be tax exempt for the employee, but any amount in excess of $15,000 would be subject to tax.

Health care benefits provided by companies are currently exempt from personal income and payroll taxes, no matter the amount.

He also plans to highlight immigration and urge Congress to renew the No Child Left Behind education law, preserve tax cuts, balance the budget within five years and work to make the costs of the war more transparent in the federal budget. ........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush...

[high density]

21. Have we made it to Mars yet?

The deficit doesn't seem to stop him from wasting money left and right.

And taxing health care benefits??? Umm how much bureaucracy are we going to need to set up for that?

[CJCRANE]

27. Not yet

but * has kept all those human-animal hybrids under control as he promised to.

[niyad]

3. does anybody here believe for a nanosecod that he would mean a word of it?

[bigluckyfeet]

8. He does not listen to the People

or Congress,they should walk the hell out when he appears.

[calimary]

10. No. Not for a nanosecond. His idea of being conciliatory is to have

everybody else come around to his point of view and then he MIGHT be nice to 'em. Or maybe he'll give them all some of those cutesy, peachy-keen nicknames.

Wow. I'm impressed. Sign me up.

NOT!!!!!!!


His tongue is so forked he could tune instruments with it. Or spear peas. Or maybe fish.

In fact, WHATEVER he has to say next Tuesday, I'd figure out what the opposite is, and bank on THAT.

Schmuck. The ONLY thing worth tuning in for, besides whatever parameters of the latest State of the Union Drinking Game might be, would be to savor the view of Nancy Pelosi sitting back there behind him, overseeing and having something to say - and MANY tough questions - about a whole lot of what he wants to do.

[screenplaya]

13. Exactly

[calimary]

16. Hey! Welcome to DU!

Visual aids are always useful, and highly effective.

[aquart]

14. Sitting behind him? Really?

Suddenly, a big smile across my face. I'll tune in for a second to see that. With the sound off, of course.

[calimary]

15. Yep. She'll be sitting up above him (next to cheney) where that human

wart, dennis hastert, was only a scant year ago. I hope she wears something brightly colored, so it'll distract and draw the eye up and away from bush. ALL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE, NAUSEATING, DRONING, LIE-PACKED ORDEAL. The whole time he's on camera, unless they do close-ups. But otherwise you'll see Pelosi and cheney on the next level up. Or you'll see parts of them - their inside arms and torsos. Even so, it'll be QUITE obvious there's a female up there. Not the usual cookie-cutter man in a business suit. Nice reminder that, in Congress at least, we're Under New Management!

:evilgrin:

[aquart]

17. Veronica Mars has a new episode at that time.

Wouldn't want to miss it.

[CJCRANE]

28. No, it's just verbal jujutsu...

a sort of rhetorical martial art where words are used to catch your opponent off balance or block other words they might use against you.

There will be no relation to "reality" as we know it.

[Chipper Chat]

4. Will he cough up 'protect marriage' again?

He has to throw some type of meat at the fundies so they don't start screaming on Wednesday.

[kstewart33]

6. I don't think the fundies trust or believe him anymore. eom

[tridim]

5. He really needs to be booed loudly this time..

Public humiliation is the only way he'll understand how much he's despised.

[AlinPA]

7. Bush**-Rove are the slimiest people ever to work in Washington. Rove is playing

the media like a goddam violin. If anyone, anywhere believes one sentence that those two vomit through Bush**'s smirking mouth they are sick.

[tabasco]

9. I want to hear the tone of prison bars clanging together.

That's the only positive tone I can hear about GW Awol Bush.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. LOL!

[Eurobabe]

30. ROTFLMAO

good one tabasco!!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. His speechifying makes my ulcerative colitis flare up.... can't afford to

watch/listen to the baboon.

[hatrack]

18. He can kiss my conciliatory ASS

eom

[rexcat]

19. He said the same thing in 2000 then...

proceeded to stab the Democrats in the back. He did the same thing after 09/11/2001 and then proceeded to stab the Democrats in the back. He is not to be trusted and the Democrats in the House and Senate should be watching their backs and continue to put pressure on him in the form of oversight!

[ProudDad]

20. I always get a kick out of this

It should read: "bush rehearses State of the Union speech written by his handlers"!

[Straight Shooter]

22. The time for a conciliatory tone is long gone. I demand a groveling, mewling SOTU. n/t

[Bucky]

23. I'm eager to hear him report on the progress made in stopping steroid use in professional sports!

That was one of his priorities in one of his earlier STFU (oops, I mean "SOTU") speeches, right?

[hatrack]

35. I, for one, am deeply concerned about human-animal hybrids!!

What progress has been made - all legislation must STOP until the fiendish plot and its planners are unearthed!!!

[struggle4progress]

24. My fellow Americans yadda yadda 9/11 yadda Saddam yadda dictator yadda

yadda yadda sacrifice yadda a democratic Iraq yadda yadda terrorists yadda bipartisanship yadda yadda work together yadda whine whine yadda blink blink blink yadda surge yadda bipartisanship yadda 9/11 yadda terrorists yadda blink whine blink yadda yadda yadda

[struggle4progress]

25. Bush Promises .. SOTU With 5 Year Old ‘Energy Independence’ Pledge

Bush Promises 'To Knock Our Socks Off’ At SOTU With 5 Year Old ‘Energy Independence’ Pledge

... In every one of his previous State of the Union addresses, Bush has promised to push America towards energy independence:

- 2006: ... we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world ...
- 2005: ... I urge Congress to pass legislation that makes America more secure and less dependent on foreign energy ...
- 2004: ... I urge you to pass legislation to .. make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy ...

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/03/sotu-energy-independence/

blebbity blebbity blah blah blah ...

[Tatiana]

26. The words may be "conciliatory" but I predict the tone and body language will not be.

This man doesn't have a conciliatory or humble bone in his body. No Democrat should applaud anything he says.

I hope there is silence throughout the whole speech.

[Eurobabe]

29. Make that CROW EATING TONE and I might watch it

Nope, can't do it -- wouldn't be prudent.

But I might just so I can see Webb rip apart the BoyKing's faulty logic in the Democratic response!

[Norrin Radd]

31. Will they be hoisting ink stained fingers, again? n/t

[radfringe]

32. Fear is a commodity

"Who can be against terrorism?" Riedel asked. "Fear is a commodity that the administration has sold before, and right now they're not having much success with the public or the Congress with the arguments they've trotted out on the (troop) surge."

[Judi Lynn]

33. Bush to seek tax changes to help cover the uninsured:PLAN TO BE OUTLINED IN SPEECH TUESDAY

Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007
Bush to seek tax changes to help cover the uninsured
PLAN TO BE OUTLINED IN SPEECH TUESDAY
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear
New York Times

WASHINGTON - President Bush intends to use the State of the Union address Tuesday to tackle the rising cost of health care with a one-two punch: tax breaks to help low-income people buy health insurance and tax increases for workers whose health plans cost more than the national average.

``I will propose a tax reform designed to help make basic private insurance more affordable,'' Bush said in his weekly radio address Saturday, ``whether you get it through your job or on your own.'' He did not offer specifics, but an administration official provided details of the plan late Friday afternoon.

Changing the subject

As he heads into the address, his first delivered to a Congress controlled entirely by Democrats, Bush faces intense skepticism from lawmakers over his new strategy in Iraq. But while he will not be able to avoid the subject of Iraq in the speech, White House officials hope to use the address to shift the national conversation away from the war and toward the possibility of bipartisan cooperation in Washington.

The basic concept of the president's plan is that employer-provided health insurance, now treated as a fringe benefit exempt from taxation, no longer would be entirely tax-free. Workers could be taxed if their coverage exceeded limits set by the government. But the government also would offer a new tax deduction for people buying health insurance on their own.
(snip/...)

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/16512528.htm

[Tracer]

34. The Democrats better not be jumping up like Jack-in-the-Boxes.

I want to see them seated, with their arms folded throughout the whole miserable affair.

No clapping allowed.

[Solly Mack]

36. War criminal President prepares to tell citizens to fuck off

Fuck everyone that supports that man in any way

[truthisfreedom]

37. The only thing coming from that man's mouth that I'd find "conciliatory" would be his resignation...

and admission to crimes against humanity.

[truthisfreedom]

38. '"Who can be against terrorism?" Riedel asked. ' Unbelieveable.

People are actually using the word "terrorism" to describe the war on terror. Calling a spade a spade.

[Gman]

39. Conciliatory tone = Beware the snake

[Stella_Artois]

40. Mission Accomplished !

Two open ended wars CHECK !

Economy on a downward spiral CHECK !

A big dump on the floor of the Oval Office waiting for the Democrat President WORKING ON IT !

[Javaman]

41. First few sentences of morons* speech just released, yes, it's conciliatory sort of...

moron*: Ladies and Gentlemen of the nation, good evening. I want to first start off by saying, I'm a total fuck up, yup, that's right, been one my whole life. My daddy knew it, my mommy knew it, hell my whole family knows it, but you know what? I'm still the preznit, so tough shit. heh heh.

With that said, I'm going to bomb Iran back before adam and eve and there ain't thing one you can do about it, so fuck off. heh heh.

Whew, I thought this would have been harder, but hell I'm havin' a heck of a time up here!