Democrats response...get the fuck outta here...

[Felicia Katt]

Read it and weap !!!! Fox is smoking CNN. Don't you pathetic losers realize that you're sinking farther and farther into the abyss?

If you decide whats right by how its rated....

Only 29% Of American Idol Viewers Stayed To Watch Bush State Of The Union on your Fox Network. 33 million watched bad off tune performances on Idol and 8.2 watched a bad offtune.... you get the idea

SurveyUSA found that 41 percent of voters across the country approve of the job Bush is doing, while 56 percent disapprove

56 Percent say the Iraq War was a mistake, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll

If Bush were a tv show, he'd have been cancelled before Sweeps LOL

FK

[Hugh Jarrod]

Read it and weap !!!! Fox is smoking CNN. Don't you pathetic losers realize that you're sinking farther and farther into the abyss?

So one piece of shit government moth piece is beating another at what? Being a government mouth piece? Dude you're still obviously stuck on this - that, and if it's not one side it's the other crap that D.C. has been handing you. Just make some decisions for yourself my friend, really just try it, it doesn't hurt any.

[chefmike]

The Mis-Statement Of The Union

MISLEADING AMERICA ON DOMESTIC GAINS:


BUSH: The economy has gained 4.6 million new jobs in the past 2 1/2 years.

REALITY: The economy lost nearly 3 million jobs during his first 2 1/2 years in office, leaving a net job gain of little over 1 million jobs during his entire tenure in office. Hardly stellar job market gains.

BUSH: We are on track to cut the federal deficit in half by 2009.

REALITY: The deficit is actually increasing this year, and according to the Congressional Budget Office it will decline by considerably less than half even if Bush's tax cuts are not made permanent - something Bush urged strongly in his speech.

BUSH: Keeping America competitive requires us to be good stewards of tax dollars. Every year of my presidency we've reduced the growth of non-security discretionary spending.

REALITY: Non-security discretionary spending only represents a mere 16% of the entire federal budget, and even it has grown under Bush. Furthermore, overall federal spending is up a whopping 42% under Bush, according to figures from the Congressional Budget Office. And CBO projects further upward pressure on spending, including rising interest rates pushing up the cost of servicing the swelling national debt, and rising medical costs and Bush's new prescription drug benefit pushing up the cost of Medicare. (Neither item is counted in the "discretionary" category). CBO projects interest costs will increase 18 per cent in the current fiscal year, and Medicare will go up 17 per cent.


BUSH: I am pleased that members of Congress are working on earmark reform, because the federal budget has too many special interest projects. And we can tackle this problem together, if you pass the line-item veto.

REALITY: The Supreme Court struck down a line-item veto as a violation of the Constitution in 1998, after President Clinton exercised the power once. The vote was 6 to 3, and one of the three Justices who wanted to uphold the power was Sandra Day O'Connor, whose resignation from the high court took effect earlier on the same day Bush spoke. The President offered no explanation of how the veto might be revived by legislation in a form that the current, more conservative Supreme Court would approve, nor did he call specifically for a Constitutional amendment.

BUSH: Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025. By applying the talent and technology of America, this country can dramatically improve our environment, move beyond a petroleum-based economy, and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past.

REALITY: US dependence on imported oil and petroleum products increased substantially during Bush's presidency. According to most recent figures from the Energy Information Administration, the US imported 60 percent of its oil and petroleum products during the first 11 months of last year, up from just under 53 percent in President Clinton's last year in office.

MISLEADING AMERICA ON FOREIGN POLICY GAINS:

BUSH: In 1945, there were about two dozen lonely democracies in the world. Today, there are 122. And we're writing a new chapter in the story of self-government -- with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan, and millions of Iraqis marking their liberty with purple ink, and men and women from Lebanon to Egypt debating the rights of individuals and the necessity of freedom.

REALITY: Bush fails to mention that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan yet qualify as democracies according to the very group whose statistics he cited. The President's numbers come from Freedom House, a nonprofit group that tracks levels of democracy and freedom around the globe. It is true, just as the President said, that there were 122 democracies in the world in 2005, but Iraq and Afghanistan are not yet counted among them by Freedom House. Also, Freedom House rates neither Iraq nor Afghanistan as "free." It rates Iraq as "not free," with scores on civil liberties and political freedom as low as those of Egypt. "Iraq gets points taken away for the chaos that is associated with the insurgency, among other things," Freedom House's Arch Puddington told FactCheck.org. Afghanistan is rated somewhat better but still only "partly free."

BUSH: In a time of testing, we cannot find security by abandoning our commitments and retreating within our borders. If we were to leave these vicious attackers alone, they would not leave us alone. They would simply move the battlefield to our own shores. There is no peace in retreat. And there is no honor in retreat.

REALITY: A clear swipe at some Democrats who have called for immediate withdrawl from Iraq. However, there is no record of any Democrat calling for a retreat in the War on Terror or that terrorists should not be pursued aggressively and militarily. This is a classic strawman argument the Bush Adminstration has used on numerous occasions by bulking Iraq together with the broader overall War on Terror. Given the highly subjective nature of whether the invasion of Iraq has made America safer from terrorism, one can support a war to eradicate terrorism without neccessarily supporting continuing military operations in Iraq.

BUSH: We now know that two of the hijackers in the United States placed telephone calls to al Qaeda operatives overseas. But we did not know about their plans until it was too late. So to prevent another attack –- based on authority given to me by the Constitution and by statute -- I have authorized a terrorist surveillance program to aggressively pursue the international communications of suspected al Qaeda operatives and affiliates to and from America.

REALITY: Bush is clearly suggesting that we would have not been attacked on 9/11 had the U.S. government been allowed to conduct wiretaps in the manner for which he has come under fire. This is an outright falsehood. First of all, there is no mention of what the alleged phone call entailed. Secondly, the CIA or FBI certainly would have had no problem whatsoever in obtaining the necessary warrant to tap such a call had the known about it - which could have even been obtained after the fact. This again is an often-used strawman argument to defend Bush's warrantless wiretaps. No one is objecting to tapping the phones of suspected Al-Queda operatives. The concern is that courts are being by-passed through a possible overreach of Executive power.

SOURCES: http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateofthe...006/index.html