[Mr. Mulliner]

You know, I think ol' LibertyBelt got too many of us thinking about the wrong part of the SOTU address. We've had plenty of time to hash Iraq out and most of us here are well on board.

I have to say -- and hope that I'm not seen as a Bush-basher at all -- that there are some parts of the speech that do not seem even remotely conservative. Specifically the education and environmental policies are two things that come to mind.

Did any of it bother you? I think it was a political winner, but I do think that he's giving up an awful lot of conservative principles to gain political leverage (if that's what's going on).

Here's someone who goes pretty far in criticizing the speech as not being nearly conservative enough:

SOTU I -- AND BUSH'S DAMNED AIDS PROPOSAL

[Dog]

Granted parts of his speech were a little over the top.....on the spending. But as he proposed each part of his agenda you could see the DEMS getting madder and madder....

He took every one of their issues and shoved them back down there throat...:-)