Posted by
PoliCzar on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:43:30 PM
The President delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Of
course he acknowledged Nancy Pelosi as the first woman speaker of the
house as was to be expected. He even congratulated the Democrat
majority. That probably shocked the left side of the aisle. The first
half of the speech was rather dull. Bush was not exactly trying to
bring forward any major proposals. He was probably advised not to do so
as with the Democrat controlled Congress, it would be quite difficult
to get anything done. The lamest of the lame ducks apparently. What was
long over due, however, was his description of the situation in Iraq.
He finally was able to explain to the American people how failure in
Iraq would cause catastrophic consequences, not only in the Middle
East, but here at home. By far the best line in the speech was when he
told Congress that when they voted for the war they voted for victory.
I was surprised to see that many democrats did not stand up and
applaud. I suppose those individuals would like to lose and lose badly.
Maybe this is the true democratic stance. As I’ve stated in past
articles, Democrats only adhere to poll numbers and unfortunately they
are listening to the wrong poll. In his response, Senator Webb stated
that most troops oppose the war in Iraq. What planet is he from? I’m
not certain what poll he got his data from but just a quick google
search and you will see it’s quite the opposite. There is no question
that Iraq was the main issue, in fact, the President spent a lot of
time explaining his view and his decision to send more troops. I
applaud him for asking for Congress to give the new plan time. As with
every plan, time is needed for it to succeed. We shall see.
Along
with Iraq, in the second half of the speech, Bush discussed his health
care reform plan, which is approved by many conservative analysts. I’ll
spare you the details. The democrats will never pass this legislation
anyway. However, it is a very strong reform plan that would improve the
health care situation in this country a great deal. Energy and global
warming was on the table as well. This issue has been around for years,
but it seems ever since Al Gore’s documentary, which is now nominated
for an academy award, go figure, I will be the first to state he will
win, then we will have to listen to him drone on and on about this
topic. Nevertheless, it is an important issue to address. More
importantly, however, is the issue of alternative fuels, which in my
opinion is the precursor to the fight against global warming itself.
One thing that was absent from the speech, and not surprisingly, was
any mention of family values. This enraged some Christian conservative
groups. But what they do not realize is that Democrats do not care
about family values, they parade their children and grand children
around as if they do, but in the end they vote against every bill that
would help these children succeed. We should hope that the no child
left behind extension is passed and that a school choice program is put
in place. If not, we should start saving now to send our children to
private schools.
It is clear that the President’s agenda has
shifted some with the Democrats in charge. It is also clear that he
will not give in to the demands of the Dems either. The sooner the
Democrats see that we are at war, the better. The sooner they start
learning and reading for themselves again as opposed to listening to
CNN opinion polls, the better. But I know as you do, these are only
dreams that will probably never come true.