{"id":35594,"date":"2019-02-06T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35594"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:50:49","slug":"the-state-of-the-union-is-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/06\/the-state-of-the-union-is-buried\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union is Buried"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night the Resident of the United States delivered one of the longest SOTU speeches in US history.  It’s length, made it like a root-canal when the dentist substituted Eau de Flatulence for nitrous oxide.  I watched the whole thing, and I’m afraid George is mad at me again.  To all other and my fellow Americans: The State of our Union is buried up to our eyeballs in the vile excrement of the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday that the economy would crash and no policy work could be done if lawmakers investigate his administration or stand in the way of his plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Syria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The lines, delivered early in his State of the Union address<\/a>, were so clearly designed to draw cheers from his Republican allies that they even included a rhyme scheme.<\/p>\n

"An economic miracle is taking place in the United States \u2014 and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations," he said, eliciting an ovation from the GOP.<\/p>\n

But then, as he asserted himself further on matters of war and the separation of powers, Trump went a bit too far.<\/p>\n

"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation," he said. "It just doesn’t work that way!"<\/p>\n

Instead of applause, Trump was met at first with a brief moment of lightly scattered laughter and a few lonely claps \u2014 and then came steely silence as the president stood at the podium looking at lawmakers… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In spite of the threat that summarizes the character of his speech, he did say he wanted unity and bipartisanship.  He was actually telling the truth, as long as he was using the Republican definition of bipartisanship.<\/font><\/p>\n

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If you are a masochist, you may watch the entire speech here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

On the other hand, Stacey Abrams’ response<\/a> is worth watching.<\/font><\/p>\n