SOTU

[Winehole23]

We found a few overstatements and cherry-picked numbers among the applause lines and proposals in President Obama’s State of the Union address.

• He boasted of businesses creating “more than 8 million new jobs” in the last four years. But that leaves out a loss of government jobs, not to mention the loss of jobs earlier in Obama’s presidency.
• Obama credited the Affordable Care Act with signing up more than 9 million Americans for private insurance or Medicaid. But Medicaid estimates include renewals, along with new enrollees.
• Obama boasted that the U.S. “reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth.” Yes, but the U.S. produces a lot of emissions. Looking at percentage change, dozens of countries did better.
• Federal deficits have been “cut by half,” as he said, but they’re still at historically high levels.
• It’s also true, as Obama said, that for the first time in 20 years, domestic oil production was greater than imports. But the increase in U.S. production is primarily due to new technology, not government policy.

http://www.factcheck.org/2014/01/facts-of-the-union/

[tlongII]

There were several bad moments for me. MyRa, the inaccurate statistics regarding employment and enrollment in Obamacare, etc. The worst, however, was President Obama stating before Congress that he was going to try to cir vent their role in government, then to have all the Democratic Congresspeople give him a standing ovation. Sickening. If they support his policies, they should do everything they can to forward them in Congress; they shouldn't desire to have their role--given to them in our Cons ution--taken away.

[Koolaid_Man]

yall really wanna laugh:

His real name Pirush Jindal but he changed it to Bobby for the Republicans

[boutons_deux]

"he was going to try to cir vent their role in government"

You Lie

He said he would do what he could with his Cons utional powers, obvioualy to bypass the non-stop Repug destructive obstructionism.

I suppose you forget head's anti-Cons utional "unitary executive". No Repugs objected.

[spurraider21]

The 2014 State of the Union got lower viewership than any since the year 2000. This was Barack Obama's sixth State of the Union Address. The ratings were lower for this one than Clinton's eighth and Bush's eighth. That means that the level of fatigue America feels for presidents by the time their eigtht SOTU happens has already been eclipsed by Obama's sixth, lol.

[HI-FI]

The 2014 State of the Union got lower viewership than any since the year 2000. This was Barack Obama's sixth State of the Union Address. The ratings were lower for this one than Clinton's eighth and Bush's eighth. That means that the level of fatigue America feels for presidents by the time their eigtht SOTU happens has already been eclipsed by Obama's sixth, lol.

you mother ing racist.

[HI-FI]

but in all seriousness, I didn't watch. spurraider's stats don't shock me. I figured it's the same old , no mention of spying, ty immigration laws. kind of stupid to see Biden and Boehner all chummy but when you're co-workers for the same elites, bonds will be formed.

[ElNono]

who watches that ?

To top it off, Congress is even less liked than the POTUS. I rather watch the Bobcats than that.

[boutons_deux]

Republicans planning three separate responses to State of the Union speech


1. The official response from Republicans will come from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who will be playing the usual role of up-and-coming Republican looking to not humiliate themselves on national television. It's a tightrope act, and sometimes (we're looking at you, Bobby Jindal) does not live up to the party's expectations.

2. Ah, but ever since Bush-era conservatism collapsed under the weight of, well, the Bush administration, we've been pretending that something called the tea party movement is an entirely separate party that just happens to be made up entirely of Republicans and is spoken for in Congress entirely by Republicans, and so they have decided they need their own "response" to the State of the Union and to the traditional Republican "response." The winner this year is Sen. Mike Lee, primarily known for his role as Sen. Ted Cruz's footstool. His role and agenda will be exactly the same as those of the official Republican response, but Sen. Mike Lee will say it more dully and with less finesse. You know: tea party.

3. The third "response" will be given by Sen. Rand Paul, and will be representing the faction of the Republican Party known as Rand Paul, delivered for the benefit of Rand Paul. Given that Rand Paul really and truly is his own faction of the party (he certainly, say, doesn't give a particular damn about anyone not named Rand or Paul) it's hard to argue with this, and since we all know Rand Paul would be giving a "response" to the State of the Union in front of his bathroom mirror that night anyway, might as well slap a camera in front of it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...h?detail=email

THE REPUBLICAN CLOWN CAR

I'm going to miss Barack Obama's presidency, if only for the fact that his State of the Union address has become an occasion for Republicans to proudly let their freak flags fly. Let us see what we had last night.

We had Randy Weber, tweeting about his fear of our tyrannical kommander-in-chef.

We had Tim Huelskamp hearing the echoes of the jackboots in every syllable every uttered by kindly Doc Maddow. (Huelskamp had a nutty on the Twitter machine, too.)

And then we had Michael Grimm's threatening to throw a reporter off the balcony and probably making Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks say, "What the fk, dude?" out loud in his hotel room.

(By the way, I think I have it now. A signing statement that allows the United States torture people = good. An executive order that gets a Capitol janitor a raise = bad. Cons ution, baby!)

And then there was Cathy McMorris Rogers, who was not nutty, but who, I believe, was attempting to sell me a dinette set.

Also, can I just say to the nice furniture lady that I'm happy that

she and her retired Naval commander husband both had that sweet government health-care so that their newborn son's pre-existing condition

wasn't the kind of hardship it is for parents who are only now, through the Affordable Care Act, able to stave off financial disaster in similar cir stances.

(And, yes, Cathy, who really doesn't want "government" or "Washington" making your health-care decisions for you, voted for this nonsense a few hours before her big moment on the national stage.)

But the real prize goes to our old friend Senator Huckleberry J. Butchmeup from South Cackalacky, who spent the hours before the speech hanging with the Duck frauds, one of whom, I believe, "ducked" (Ha!) out early because there was a sale on Dockers at the Old Navy store up on K Street.

Afterwards, Huck pronounced himself shocked that a declaration of war was not tucked in there among all the other girly-man stuff.

"The world is literally about to blow up," Graham said, saying he completely disagrees with Obama on Iran policy. Obama pledged to veto any additional sanctions legislation while negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program are ongoing. "The world as I know was not remotely described by the president. Syria is a contagion," Graham said. "Explain to me what happens if the Syrian conflict goes on another year and Assad continues to win," Graham said, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Iraq is disintegrating. The whole region is moving toward chaos, and we're doing nothing. We're talking about limiting drones?" said Graham, who brought "Duck Dynasty" co-star Korie Robertson to the speech as his guest.

Quack.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politic...e-union-012914

[boutons_deux]

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Dismantles Republican Whining After SOTU

Jon Stewart went on quite an extended riff last night on the Republican response to the State of the Union Address. Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and others all looked into cameras and talked about how hurt they are that Obama dared say, 'I'm eager to work with you, but the American people don't stand still and nor will I."

Rand Paul, for instance, said, "You can't just say it's my way or the highway. That's not the tone . . ."

"Tone?!!!" Stewart interjected. "You want to talk about tone?!!" He then went through a familiar litany of Republican declarations that they will under no cir stances work with this president to get anything done, that they will block him at every turn, and make it look like his fault. On the night of the State of the Union, Texas GOP Rep. Steve Stockman walked out in the middle of the speech, upping the ante on the guy who yelled "liar" last year in the middle of the speech.

So, no, Stewart said, you should not be buying this "bullsh*t" about these "sensitive Republican souls." Then he carefully delineated just what kind of bullsh*t Congressional Republicans are dishing up. "Premium, grade-A, grass-fed, collected from the polished anuses of Texas longhorn . . ."

You get the idea.

http://www.alternet.org/video/video-...ter953153&t=13