You might like clammyc's joyous and light-filled diary, sure to bring a smile to your face, Implosion, thy name is the republican party .
After listing the various snipes taken by Repub Congressionals at their own party, clammyc goes into the messes they've made and states:
But we must not let them disassociate themselves with it. This is their mess. It must be cleaned up.
Bush is going to give a State of the Union address on Jan 20, 2007, 16 days after Congress sits. Maybe in the 1st or 2nd week of Jan, the Dems deliver a "State of the Nation as Dems See It" address? Howard Dean, maybe.
Here's why and what for:
The indispensable Bonddad had at least one diary on the economic mess we are going to inherit. And absolutely none of the news from any direction--Iraq, Afghan, economy, competence, corruption, etc--is going to be anything but worse for awhile to come.
So Dean, say, gives this address. The purposes being:
- to innoculate us against the inevitable mess we've been running toward full-steam,
- lay down the case that we saw it coming but we're getting no help fixing it,
- setting the stage to demonstrate that Bush will not deal with real world issues in anyway but with slogans and bullshit. [This part can't miss]
And when Bush fails to deal with anything at all mentioned in the "State of the Nation" it isn't even going to matter if the MSM doesn't address that. We would need, for this to work, all publicly-appearing Democrats to bally-hoo the speech and to characterize it's tenor: "This country has been drifting around without a plan for too long. We have a plan to first help the average Amercan, who's under seige right now. And we expect sincere cooperation in establishing proper oversight, in fixing the messes we've got now."
There would be lines (with graphics) maybe like:
- Never in the history of this country have we seen budget and trade deficits like this, weakening the very fabric of life in America. Why, recently, we've become net importers of food for heavens sake! And our weapons parts manufacturing is being exported to countries like China. This is all upside-down.
- We keep seeing the average person's situation getting more risky, while every policy for years benefitted the securist amongst us. For some people, enough is never enough. But when it's coming out of the pockets of those that have less--well, that's just the opposite of any religious morality, or any common sense of decency.
- Iraq and Afghanistan have been getting worse for years, Osama gets new fans and new recruits everyday, and we still don't have a straight-forward logical plan out in public on what the Commander-in-Chief is going to do that will work for a change. We get slogans and half-truths. At the same time, our troops have been under-protected while if you've got the right contacts you can make guaranteed cost-plus, no-bid contracts. How many small business people in America would like a deal like that? No matter what it costs you to do, you are guaranteed that plus a minimum profit. What average American gets a deal like that? Does the Executive plan to put a stop to this moral madness? How?
- some crow about the new jobs numbers, but in reality these numbers are the worst in 40 years, and they pay 20% less than jobs that are being exported. (Dean might not be able to say that last part in front of the DemoCash wing of the party that directly.)
- The President seems to think that when bin Laden attacked us, he also gave the President extra-Constitutional powers. Does he plan to continue try to do everyone else's job, deciding what's law and what isn't based on his opinion? To date, he has impressed no one with doing the task assigned him. How soon will he finally get around to doing his own job? (I know, never get in, but it felt good to write)
- America needs answers to these questions Mr President. Are you up to the task of anwering them directly?
- [your item here]
PS apologies to clammyc and Bondad for not having their links here. Suddenly what I always did is illegal, and informs me of the problem in computereze.