SOTU Follies
From Greg Djerejian:
This SOTU felt like something of a requiem. It was almost painful to watch. Like, say, Jacques Chirac, the President seemed a dead man walking. The domestic policy part, despite some initiatives of arguable import (energy conservation, health insurance), reeked of half-hearted delivery, a sense that little of it would come to fruition, in short, that is was mere filler/prologue. Put simply, Bush's heart wasn't in the domestic policy section (and Cheney even mischievously winked to the gallery during one of the reduction in energy usage parts). None of it was truly convincing, in the least.
The video of Cheney smirking and winking to the gallery can be found here. As another commenter pointed out, Bush's speech would have sounded great to somebody who just beamed in from Pluto. To those of us who have seen what he's actually done these last six years, it sounded like a bunch of bullshit. Cheney winking while Bush talked about reducing oil consumption just confirms that bullshit is what it really was.
