State of the Union

[billhilly]

yeah, its actually required, I believe, to give your speech to the opposition a day early so they can hammer out their response.

I can't remember the president that actually went to Congress to give the address but it was first sent as a letter to both houses. I actually believe it was Hoover who was late with the letter and decided to just appear in person to deliver the address. Okay I found the history of the State of the Union.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou.php

Washington showed up to give the report in person but Jefferson just sent a written report.  It was Wilson I believe who started the speech thing again.  I wish they'd go back to mailing it in.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

The rubes a few months ago hated everyone and everything and suddenly they LOVE everyone? Yeah, right.. nice try spin masters.  :roll:

[barbarian]

It's on in an hour or so,  but rubes are publicizing not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 "responses" staring their crazies. This ought to be a hoot.  

Let me sum this up for you quick,  #-o [-o<  ](*,)  :-({|=  :---)  :finga:      =D>

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Wait, isn't that a depiction of Wolf Blitzer cowtowing to rubes on CNN?

[Poison Tree]

I didn't bother watching. Just bad political theater.
"oh look, now the democrats are clapping and standing while the republicans sit quietly. Was Boehner just scratching or secretly flipping off Obama behind his back? Was Joe Biden bored by the speech? "

[hillbillyatheist]

if anybody who missed it wants to watch it, here's the video.

[youtube:2brpjv3e]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hed1nP9X7pI[/youtube:2brpjv3e]

[MitchellDaBomb]

Another speech filled with false promises and empty phrases. Obama is just a tool puppet president.

[Plu]

All presidents are tool puppet presidents.

[hillbillyatheist]

obama's nowhere near the progressive I wish he was but the fact is if he could implement his ideas, we'd be better off. We can't though because of the worthless teabagger shitstains in the congress who block everything even their own ideas (when Obama agrees to them) out of spite for the president.

[SGOS]

yeah, its actually required, I believe, to give your speech to the opposition a day early so they can hammer out their response.

LOL I thought you were going with "required to report on the state of the union to congress."  I don't know who circulates these things beforehand or why, but I don't post my grocery list on the internet the day before I go shopping.  I don't see why either one of these events is of such significant import.

Last night was a convention of corrupt assholes dressed in their finest for an appearance on TV.  Today is just like Yesterday.  The government is still broken.

[Rajhoul]

It's fascinating how people today seem to believe that they actually have a relevant influence on what their government does forgetting that the very nature of our system offers everything for sale. The only vote that counts is the monetary vote and it doesn't matter how much any activist yells about ethics and accountability. In a market system, every politician, every legislation and hence, every government is for sale. And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts starting in 2007 an amount of money which could have changed say, the global energy infrastructure to fully renewable methods instead of going to a series of institutions that literally do nothing to help society institutions that could be removed tomorrow with no recourse, the blind conditioning that politics and politicians exist for the public well-being still continues. The fact is, politics is a business - no different than any other in a market system and they care about their self-interest before anything else.

[Jason Harvestdancer]

It's on in an hour or so,  but rubes are publicizing not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 "responses" staring their crazies. This ought to be a hoot.  

There's no such thing as an official response.  Anyone can make a response, it is up to you to decide if the response amounts to anything.

[mykcob4]

It's on in an hour or so,  but rubes are publicizing not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 "responses" staring their crazies. This ought to be a hoot.  

There's no such thing as an official response.  Anyone can make a response, it is up to you to decide if the response amounts to anything.

there you go again. There were no less than 4 official responses, one made by your hero Rand Paul and his libertarian idealism of no government.
Here's one from another hero of yours Tea Partier Mike Lee, Ted Cruz's right hand man:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01 ... n-address/

[AllPurposeAtheist]

In other news rube congressman Micheal Grimm threatened to throw reporter over the balcony and break him 'like a boy'.
Great guys those rubes..so compasionate. #-o
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/m ... 02808.html

[Shiranu]

It's on in an hour or so,  but rubes are publicizing not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 "responses" staring their crazies. This ought to be a hoot.  

There's no such thing as an official response.  Anyone can make a response, it is up to you to decide if the response amounts to anything.

Official as in it is recognized as by the party and not just the words of an independent party.