The President's State of the Union Address
2 Feb 2006
Fresh back from her traitorous trip to South America and chummy meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday night and removed from the Capital gallery in handcuffs prior to President Bush’s State of the Union address. Sheehan was not arrested for treason, however, but for demonstrating in the Capital building. It appears she showed up for the president’s State of the Union address wearing a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan. Apparently, it’s okay to travel to foreign countries and whip up anti-American sentiment, but not okay to wear a T-shirt into the Capital building with a protest slogan printed on it.
Earlier Tuesday, Maxine Waters, South Central Los Angeles’ ranting and raving congresswoman who claims to march for abortion rights because her own “mother could not have one” and alleges that the Muslim Taliban is being secretly funded by Christians and Christian organizations in America, called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. This, from a woman who fought against the impeachment of President Clinton and warned the nation of its impending destruction at the hands of those who believe in truth telling, especially under oath, and fidelity in marriage. Yes, in Maxine Waters’ world, our nation’s survival depends upon a preponderance of liars and adulterers.
Despite an attempted filibuster by Democrats, the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court was finally confirmed Tuesday morning by the United States Senate. While the bitter, partisan battle over the Alito confirmation was coming to a close on the Senate floor, two federal appeals courts—the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York—were striking down Congress’ ban on partial-birth abortion. According to these two crazy courts, banning the gruesome and ghastly murders of partially born babies is unconstitutional.
When this year’s Academy Award nominations were announced on Tuesday, no one was surprised to learn that “Brokeback Mountain” led the pack with eight nominations. The movie, which is about two gay cowboys, is a cinematic attempt by Tinsel Town to corral public opinion for gay rights and same-sex marriage. One thing for sure, Roy Rogers (the king of the cowboys) is dead; he’s been replaced by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal (the queens of cowboys). Get along little doggie.
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues his insane babblings about the Holocaust being a myth, Israel being wiped off the map, and Iran launching missile attacks against the Zionist state and American military bases in the Gulf and Iraq, a report released Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency contends that the Iranians recently purchased a document on the nuclear black market to assist them in making an atomic bomb. Well, so much for Iran’s cockamamie explanation of its secret nuclear program and its need to break the seals on its uranium enrichment facilities. It’s not like anyone actually believed that a nation sitting on top of vast oil reserves really needed to develop nuclear energy, but at least till now there was no smoking gun proving what the whole world already knew; namely, that Iran’s mad Shiite mullahs were lying through their teeth.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also made the news Tuesday by boasting about Russia’s new zigzag missiles. According to the Russian president and former KGB leader, Russian scientists have now developed missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and of penetrating any missile defense system. Though Putin contends that Russia’s new missiles will be impossible to intercept once they are launched against us, we may take comfort from President Bush’s claim to have looked into Putin’s eyes, seen his soul, and felt the warm fuzzes.
In spite of all the above, President Bush guaranteed us in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that the present “state of our Union is strong.” Furthermore, he added that by working “together we [can] make it [even] stronger.” Mr. Bush then went on to spell out a number of things for us to jointly pursue in order to strengthen our nation and assure ourselves of a brighter future.
He began by challenging us to join him in his continuing efforts to end tyranny in the world by spreading democracy. Never mind that Egyptians are electing members of the Muslim Brotherhood to Egypt’s parliament, Afghans have voted to make their country an Islamic republic run by a Muslim president and ruled by Shari’ah Law, Iraqis have elected members of radical Muslim iman Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army to their new government assembly, the terrorist group Hezbollah has won recent elections in Lebanon, and the terrorist group Hamas has just been voted in as the new government of Palestine. Democracy is still, according to our undaunted president, the yellow brick road to worldwide utopia.
The president also used the occasion of this year’s State of the Union address to once again assure our nation that Islam is “a noble religion” perverted “by a few” terrorists. However, as long as the Islamic world continues to reward terrorists with landslide victories in democratic elections the president’s words will ring more and more hollow.
Having gotten nowhere in his proposal last year to reform Social Security, the president called upon Congress Tuesday night to help him create a commission to look into the “impact of baby boom retirements on Social Security.” According to the United States Census Bureau, 7,900 baby boomers will turn 60 each day of 2006. Over the next 5 years, 27 million new recipients will be added to the Social Security payroll. Whereas each Social Security recipient in 1950 was supported by 16.5 American workers, we’re now seeing the scary scenario of only 2 American workers for every Social Security recipient. Anyone can do the math and figure out for himself that this doesn’t add up. Yet, Washington is not about to touch this “third rail” of American politics. Instead, Washington politicians will continue to do nothing but clamor while Social Security speeds down the track toward its inevitable train wreck.
While working Americans fork over more and more of their hard earned money for soaring gas prices, Exxon Mobil announced last week the largest earnings of any company in U.S. history—$10.71 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the whole year. Accusing American consumers of being “addicted to oil,” not oil companies’ of being addicted to profits, President Bush announced Tuesday night his ambitious plan to convert our nation over to alternative energies. Within six years the president foresees America’s roadways filled with cars fueled by “corn…wood chips and stalks” and “switch grass.” If you ask me, the chances of the president replacing the Alaskan pipeline with his political pipedream are about as good as putting windmills in the Nantucket backyards of Senators Kennedy and Kerry.
In the fight against AIDS, a worldwide epidemic that can be eradicated by the simple practice of Biblical morality, Mr. Bush pledged to continue throwing millions of dollars at the deadly disease. When it comes to the healthcare crisis in America, the president suggested fighting soaring medical costs with personal health savings accounts, even though we all know that the real problem is hospitals that charge $35.00 for a Tylenol tablet. I mean at those prices, not even Bill Gates can save enough money to keep himself healthy.
On and on I could go, but enough already. Suffice it to say that I’m not convinced like our president that “the state of our Union is strong.” As far as I’m concerned, our nation and the world is in a state of emergency; and the sooner we stop kidding ourselves about it and face up to it the better off we’ll be.
Don Walton
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