How that became, “He shall from time to time hold a massive jerkoff press junket,” I do not know, but as everyone should know by now, tonight is the State of the Union. I won’t be able to watch it, and in fact I won’t even be reading about it until tomorrow, but I’d encourage everybody not to follow my example.
We know that Bush is planning to address health care, Iran, and oil alternatives, but I’d like to add some predictions:
-There will be undisguised gloating over Alito’s painless confirmation and the desperately failed filibuster.
-Osama bin Laden will be named 1 time.
-Iraq will be mentioned as a success in the war on terror not fewer than two times; one of these will be in the section where he talks about invading Iran.
-The newly-insane Palestinian government will be elliptically alluded to as “destablizing elements in the Middle East.”
-The health care section will be a grotesquerie, and all of us who support universal health care will weep.
-The response by Tim Kaine will suck, but largely through no fault of his own. Still, it must be said: Tim fucking Kaine?