Look at tonights headlines and tell me the SOTU is 'strong"

[rodeodance]

just a sampling I pulled off LBN



Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports

NYT: Senate Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying

House approves $39 billion cut to Medicaid, student loans

14 US House Reps Want Bush Impeach Probe

GOP dampens hope for bounce from Bush address

WP-Administration (Chertoff) Faulted on Katrina (blistering GAO Report)

Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying

[msongs]

1. 14 US House Reps Want Bush Impeach Probe - whats the source? nt

[rodeodance]

3. I got it off LBN

[EFerrari]

2. Kick

[Gloria]

4. The headline today about the SOTU in my local rag was---

"Bush tries to take charge in the SOTU"....TRIES TO TAKE CHARGE...

I don't know what's gotten into them!!!

[saltpoint]

5. On NEWS HOUR with Jim Lehrer earlier tonight a handful of

talking heads responded to Bush's SOTU. None of the guests believed Bush gave an address to the ENTIRE nation; a former Reagan guy believed that Bush is aiming for 50.01 percent, and that Bush feels that is his working majority.

Another guest, David Gergen, countered by suggesting that the State of the Union should be to ALL the people, not only the president's constituency.

From what I'm reading, 50% is way too high for Bush's constituency these days. Earlier, sure. But not now.

Consequently, the "success" of the address has to do with whether Bush's fiercely loyal right-wing corporate-influenced nutcase fundie base will continue to buy a disastrous war and an escalating national debt. Dying and spending tend to alienate even loyal conservatives. In an election year, I personally feel that Bush has no cards to play. Certainly he has no money to play with. And Iraq does not seem to be getting much better any time soon.

So the bluster of his physical stance and posture during the speech -- the arrogant smirking is what I mean here -- is just bluster and swagger. Unless there is a momentum to drive it, it soars for a short moment and then crashes on the floor of the Senate.

Events down the road could prove me wrong, but I'm just saying that Bush's SOTU this year was the equivalent of the baseball socks he stuffed into his underpants when he was prancing around on the aircraft carrier. There's no 'there' there.

[Wordie]

6. Yeah, I heard a discussion with Gergen last night, and he said that

the speech was aimed only at his base then, too.

I'm glad to see the msm is maybe waking up. It's about time.