I'll at least post a pic or two.
Fantastic speech, I have my kids watching it and they are commenting on how the democrats are acting like children. We are raising some great Conservatives in this house..
Some critics have said our duties in Iraq must be internationalized. This particular criticism is hard to explain to our partners in Britain, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, the Netherlands, Norway, El Salvador and the 17 other countries that have committed troops to Iraq.
Some in this chamber, and in our country, did not support the liberation of Iraq. Objections to war often come from principled motives. But let us be candid about the consequences of leaving Saddam Hussein in power. We are seeking all the facts - already the Kay report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations. Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day. Had we failed to act, Security Council resolutions on Iraq would have been revealed as empty threats, weakening the United Nations and encouraging defiance by dictators around the world. Iraq's torture chambers would still be filled with victims - terrified and innocent. The killing fields of Iraq - where hundreds of thousands of men, women and children vanished into the sands - would still be known only to the killers. For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
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I'll at least post a pic or two.
Fantastic speech, I have my kids watching it and they are commenting on how the democrats are acting like children. We are raising some great Conservatives in this house..
January 26, 1983 Ronald Reagan
Truly, no one, especially Tom Daschle, who read from the wrong script -- did you notice? -- no one expected an offense. All day long, all weekend long all we heard was that the President would "defend" himself. He didn't defend himself, he offended his and America's enemies. Damned fine show, Mr. John.
| our | 82 | 2.23% |
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| that | 54 | 1.47% |
| for | 54 | 1.47% |
| you | 45 | 1.22% |
| will | 44 | 1.20% |
| have | 39 | 1.06% |
| this | 39 | 1.06% |
| can | 31 | 0.84% |
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| they | 22 | 0.60% |
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| must | 18 | 0.49% |
| more | 18 | 0.49% |
| health | 17 | 0.46% |
| has | 17 | 0.46% |
| help | 17 | 0.46% |
| who | 16 | 0.44% |
| them | 16 | 0.44% |
| law | 15 | 0.41% |
| new | 15 | 0.41% |
| act | 15 | 0.41% |
| americans | 14 | 0.38% |
| economy | 14 | 0.38% |
| iraq | 14 | 0.38% |
| children | 13 | 0.35% |
| one | 13 | 0.35% |
| tonight | 13 | 0.35% |
| american | 13 | 0.35% |
| war | 12 | 0.33% |
| some | 12 | 0.33% |
| congress | 12 | 0.33% |
| world | 12 | 0.33% |
| work | 12 | 0.33% |
| care | 11 | 0.30% |
| free | 11 | 0.30% |
| united | 11 | 0.30% |
| schools | 11 | 0.30% |
| every | 10 | 0.27% |
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Simply not true -- latest and largest study to date (by Univ. of Michigan) concludes the contrary.
$23 million is just to pay back $upporters who own the drug-testing business.
Might start talking about real money soon.
And the cobbler’s rejoinder.
To both.
First, Bush and the address.
My name is Herman the cobbler. Hard job, low pay.
I do the job that other Americans “won’t”.
And, I’m an American.
I want to thank Bush for reminding me in his address of the Bush Amnesty. Or maybe he shouldn’t.
Because, it really pisses me off.
And, I have a question about giving legal status to illegal aliens as “guest workers”.
Mr. Bush – you call them “guests”.
Mr. Bush . . . when these “guests” have babies, does this make them youngin’s US citizens?
They will have three years to make one. Or two. Or three.
And, maybe you shouldn’t have reminded me that you don’t believe in amnesty. That you don’t believe in rewarding those who break our laws.
National security is important. The police are our “thin blue line” between us an criminals. And the borders are our “line in the sand” that protects our national security.
I think your amnesty is a threat to our national security.
And my job, one of those jobs “American’s won’t do”.
Ok, maybe my name isn’t Herman.
And maybe this isn’t just a “guest workers program”.
Second, the Democrats.
Your bumper sticker reads, “Jobs, Not War”.
I think, maybe, when you say “jobs”, you mean Joe Stalin.
Those kind of jobs.
Those kind of jobs are real important to you.
More important, well, than most anything.
Jobs, not War.
Jobs, not Security.
Jobs, not . . . sovereignty
Jobs, not,
. . . Democracy.
Jobs.
Not freedom.
Jobs, not Freedom. That’s your bumper sticker. Jobs is the word. Jobs. It’s important. It’s Joe and Jobs. Joe Stalin Jobs.
Jobs, not War.
Jobs, not Freedom.
“Here’s my Freedom. Give me a JOB!” - that's the Democratic response. Where everyone has a Social Security Number, and a few dimes in the pocket.
Everyone.
Including "guests".
Opps . . . maybe the President agrees with them on that.
Ok, maybe I'm not a cobbler.
Bush was unexpectedly aggressive on the War on Terrorism, tax cuts, and the part of the Prescription Drug bill that involves the market. I was impressed that he took the WMD issue straight-on. He was not passive, he was taking the battle to the enemy. I hope this is a foretaste of Campaign 2004.
The domestic part of a SOTU in recent times is almost always what keeps it from being a great speech; it did this time too. But as domestic laundry lists go, it was modest. He really did not propose anything grandiosely expensive. He did a lot of sermonizing, but partly that's an acknowledgment that not everything in the State of the Union can be fixed by government.
I don't see how anyone could call what he said about marriage waffling. It didn't sound to me like a "maybe" -- it sounded like a serious threat. The only way to come right out for a Marriage Amendment in a SOTU would be to give it the kind of attention he gave the War on Terror -- it's too big a thing to be a paragraph.
He did not talk about the partial-birth abortion bill or judicial nominations, which surprised me. On the other hand, the code is pretty universal now: when a Republican attacks activist judges, that's taking a position on the whole culture war in its political dimension. The mullahs of the Church of Abortion will make the connection, never fear.
I'd give it a B graded on a curve with his other post-9/11 speeches; as a SOTU though it was an A performance.
This was warmly and well received on both sides of the aisle. I would hope every effort could be made to change some of the outcomes by focusing on needed help. Among such help there should also be relief from alimony and child support for individuals while in prison. This money is never collected since there is little or no incentive to work an entry level job at entry level wages if you cannot even support yourself. In this light, what also should be considered is increasing the earned income tax credit for single people. The EITC has been quite helpful in helping single mothers return to the work force and should have positive results for single men and women who do not act as primary caregivers to children.
These last two proposals are not mine. They have been widely discussed elsewhere. What seems to hold both up is a combination of feminist outrage plus a belief by some that doing these two is amounting to a "free ride."
Because of the controversy, some of these efforts could be local and small to see if they work before attempting a full scale increase in expenditures.