Thank you. I watched the address live, but this will help me pick up on what I might have missed. It was an excellent speech.
Do you have a transcript of the Governor of Virginia's response? Much better than any other Democrat's response in the past.
Not posted, but this link will take you to it ...
A lot of republicans are going to say that -- and I have to think that will make the liberal democrats pretty upset. after all, what good is a "democrat response" if republicans are happy with it?
Kaine is a pretty liberal person for Virginia, and he is more personally liberal than he projected to get elected. We have yet to see the full extent of that disingenuous part of his nature, but after spending a year promising not to raise any taxes, and in fact to VETO any tax increase, until the transportation trust fund was protected by the constitution, he just after 1 week in office proposed a billion a year in new transportation taxes.
But a liberal virginian is still much better than a typical democrat.
My daughter said she had trouble concentrating because of his eyebrow (she had to watch for her civics class) and my wife came over, watched for about 20 seconds, got a funny laugh, and left saying something about creepy.
"Do you have a transcript of the Governor of Virginia's response? Much better than any other Democrat's response in the past."
As he was speaking all I could think was that he was proving GWB's points. Everytime he bragged about the success of his state, and other states, I kept thinking that is the point. The Fed is allowing the states to decide on their own to be successful by reducing involvement in their affairs. Would this Governor prefer the Feds take over and ruin his success?
Then he would compain about federal funding after bragging about his successes. Is he not able to raise revunue at the state level to use in the state........
I was also pretty surprised that no National Democrat stepped forward to take the rebuttal. Kinda leads me to believe that the Dems are in more disarray than ever.
Of course the fact that it was a carefully statgemanged bit of theater seems to have gone over everyone head. The reason it was a "Good response" was because the Democrats needed someone to come on to provide cover to their rabidly stupid attack everything agenda. So they send out one stooge to make reasonable sounding noises about "Bi partisanship". Sorry Democrats, your ACTIONS in Washington demonstrate the utter absurdity of the Gov of Virgina's remarks. We are not fooled.