POTUS SOTU Notables

Here are some notable highlights from the President’s pout-fest otherwise known as his first State of the Union address.  On shared power:

To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills. And if the Republican leadership is going to insist that 60 votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town — a supermajority — then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well. Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions. So let’s show the American people that we can do it together.

See that?  That’s right, we’re talking about you.

With just one Senate seat, you are now going to be responsible for all that’s wrong in the United States.  The upcoming double-dip recession?  That will be on you.  Speaking of misogynistic cavemen, …

We’re going to crack down on violations of equal pay laws — so that women get equal pay for an equal day’s work.

No word yet on whether the Obama Administration will look unto hiring inequities disfavoring women in coal mining or off-shore drilling .  Wait, what?  Oh, we are not allowed to do any of that.  Okay.  Clean energy?  What’s that?

There’s no reason Europe or China should have the fastest trains, or the new factories that manufacture CLEAN ENERGY products.

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We should put more Americans to work building CLEAN ENERGY facilities — and give rebates to Americans who make their homes more energy-efficient, which supports CLEAN ENERGY jobs.

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You see, Washington has been telling us to wait for decades, even as the problems have grown worse. Meanwhile, China is not waiting to revamp its economy. Germany is not waiting. India is not waiting. These nations — they’re not standing still. These nations aren’t playing for second place. They’re putting more emphasis on math and science. They’re rebuilding their infrastructure. They’re making serious investments in CLEAN ENERGY because they want those jobs.

Okay, I get it.  The focus groups react positively when you say “CLEAN ENERGY.”  If you say it enough times, it’s like a “Jedi mind trick” to get everyone invested in that term, so that you can define it any way you please.  Impressive.  Apparently, “CLEAN ENERGY” does sounds a lot better than dirty energy.  So, does “CLEAN ENERGY” have anything to do with energy causing real air pollution, or are you really talking about that scam with carbon emissions?

There is also a lot of talk about competing with China, Germany and India for “CLEAN ENERGY” jobs and their emphasis on math and science.  This doesn’t make any sense.  Just before, there was all this talk about women in the workplace, but now we need to compete in math and science.  You need an education to compete in math and science, but since most of our educational system is devoted to female-friendly fields (e.g., political “science,” marketing, buzzword linguistics, sociology, psychology, advertising, women’s studies, etc.) how can we possibly change our focus.  What will all these “educated” women do?  Get pregnant?  Have you seen them, lately?  Who’d wanna get with that?  What does your economic adviser, Larry Summers think about this?  Better yet, don’t remind him.  Speaking of which, what about the economy?

Now, as we stabilized the financial system, we also took steps to get our economy growing again, save as many jobs as possible and help Americans who had become unemployed.

Does anybody really believe this?  What about the terrorists?

That’s the work we began last year. Since the day I took office, we’ve renewed our focus on the terrorists who threaten our nation. We’ve made substantial investments in our homeland security and disrupted plots that threatened to take American lives. We are filling unacceptable gaps revealed by the failed Christmas attack, with better airline security and swifter action on our intelligence. We’ve prohibited torture and strengthened partnerships from the Pacific to South Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. And in the last year, hundreds of al-Qaida’s fighters and affiliates, including many senior leaders, have been captured or killed — far more than in 2008.

Okay, good we are still killing terrorists although they keep popping up like whack-a-mole.  We’re sure those were terrorists, right?  Oh, you can’t tell us because it’s a matter of national and homeland security.  Okay, sure.  No, no,…I’m not questioning, and no, I’m not suggesting we go soft on terror.  No.  Since I intend on always being tough on terror, when we have to start more wars after the blowback from all the drones yours sending through Pakistan and Yemen (even more than Bush, ironically), I just wanted to know if you are going to require women to register with selective service?  Oh, equal pay for equal work only applies to things women want to do, so we do not compare that to things men have to do.  Understood.

Was there anything on campaign finance?

With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people. And I’d urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems.

Wow, the POTUS has some scrotus criticizing the SCOTUS to their faces, with one of the SCROTUS uttering back “you’re wrong.”  Presumably, McConnell’s memo only applied to unruly Republican legislators like Joe Wilson.

Taken as a whole, the entire SOTU Address appeared as the rantings of someone completely out of touch with reality.  Is this what happens when you start believing your own public relations?  The best lesson that can be drawn is by analogy to the title character of Scarface, and what happens when you start doing your own product.  Hopefully we will not have to say hello to the POTUS’ little friend.