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Stream of Thought in Response to the President’s State of the Union

Posted by Jess Chapman on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 · 1 Comment

8:13 p.m. CT: The American military is better than the American government. I don’t think you’ll find much disagreement there.

8:14: Education, manufacturing, jobs, technology, investment. Evoking the Greatest Generation. Oh, if only.

8:17: Good delivery tonight. Strong overtone of “there’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be solved by what’s right with America.”

8:21: At least he gets that manufacturing is the most important sector. A bit disconcerting that he measures success by three auto companies.

8:24: Lulz at Boehner’s grudging applause during attacks on outsourcing. Smile, bud. (Although hasn’t Obama been pushing this stuff for four years?)

8:28: Inspections of unfair trade practices and high-tech worker training in conjunction with community colleges. Hell yeah.

8:30: Unemployment into re-employment with training. Damn, that’s good.

8:35: DREAM Act . . . hoo boy.

8:36: Equal pay for women? Really?

8:40: R&D, domestic oil and gas, other domestic energy. Same ‘ol. With oil.

8:43: “I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.” No, he’ll just shift oil subsidies over there. Tsk tsk.

8:46: So spend half the amount of money you would have spent on the wars on infrastructure, and the other half on debt reduction. Sounds like something I would have come up with.

8:47: “A deficit of trust.” Dude, you DID NOT steal that from Huntsman.

8:49: Lame spilled milk joke. More stealing from Huntsman?

8:52: Plenty of boos for Richard Cordray, but he probably expected that.

8:54: Kind of loving the tone of “Get stuff done or I’ll kick your ass.”

8:59: Ah, “Washington sucks” talk. I think the only people who approve of Congress are in it.

9:00: LOUD boo on insider trading by members of Congress. I bet that guy is rich.

9:03: Booing Lincoln? Assholes.

9:04: Pakistan is officially an enemy now?

9:11: That guy who keeps booing sounds an awful lot like Ron Paul. . . .

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