Finish the Job, or Finished

Anyone who tuned in to Tuesday evening expecting to see the annual State of the Union address was terribly disappointed. What they saw was the first campaign speech Of the 2024 Presidential race.

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The True State of the Union

The annual State of the Union speech is usually a partisan campaign rally where the President touts all the country has accomplished in the last year and how he is to thank for all of the gains.

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Better To Rule in Hell Than Serve in Heaven

Did you watch the State of the Union speech?  The context of the speech was a bit surreal when one considers that the members of the Senate present to hear this address would be voting the next day on whether to convict and remove the President from office.

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Secret Service “Shuts down” Pelosi Claim About Security at the State of The Union Address

Fresh from our Blogging Brother from another mother, Warner Todd Huston. The Secret Service has quickly refuted Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remarks about safety during the upcoming State of the Union Address. Pelosi milked the left’ Shutdown rhetoric to insist that the President would not have adequate security. As if Speaker Pelosi cares about Mr. … Read more

USA Today has nothing on Dr. Leonard Hofstader

The fish wrappers at USA Today asked “users on social media for one word that best describes the state of our union and compiled more than a hundred responses into a graphic.’ Hofstader asked ‘What would you be if you were attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis?’ Though … Read more

Status of the Union – a very sorry affair

I tweeted during the whole thing and I’ll put them up later on.  In quickly reviewing them, I think this one sums up the speech the best:

There’s NOTHING that the Federal Government can’t do – and nothing that Obama won’t refuse to have it grab. #GROK #TCOT #NHPOLITICS #SOTU

But you all knew that already, right?  You know that his idea of a perfect community is just you, and government.  Nothing else, for in his Progressives eyes, nothing else  matters or should be needed.  You see, the story of Julia that Obama released during the campaign, how she would rely on government, was not the whole story, was it?  At no time, then or tonight, was there a mention of family helping out, of neighbors helping out, or voluntary associations between other citizens in fraternal organizations or churches, was there?  That act of citizens helping each other OUTSIDE THE SPHERE OF GOVERNMENT that De Toqueville said was the vital strength of America – absent.

No, that kind of America does not exist in your Utopia, does it Mr. Obama?  Instead, it is only a small individual and a Big Government surrounding that person 360.  The intent may be to protect, but that 360 degree wall can also be seen as a cell wall.

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Rand Paul’s Response to Obama’s State of The Union Address

Yes, I have always liked Rand Paul, in case you were curious, and he is my kind of Republican…so in keeping with that, here you go; Rand Paul’s response c/o the Tea Party (though not necessarily as the Tea Party) to El Presidente’ Obama’s State of Delusion the Union Speech.

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