Slog - Comments on Mistate of the Union

Comment by Katie

Katie — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:35:24 -0800

I just want to know what Nancy Pelosi was reading.

Comment by Cale

Cale — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:55:34 -0800

that was quick! gotta love the internets.

Comment by Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:07:08 -0800

I don't like the internet. Or the world wide web.

Comment by Jim Demetre

Jim Demetre — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:08:55 -0800

No update on the animal-human hybrids?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:40:13 -0800

"Major emitters" = China.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:00:22 -0800

What's the quote, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, about mendacity?

Comment by flamingbanjo

flamingbanjo — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:06:00 -0800

Given that this administration has been caught red-handed lying about some pretty major, impeachable shit and absolutely nothing has happened to them as a result, what exactly is the downside of saying whatever pretty lies he wants to whenever he wants to?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:22:51 -0800

Cool. Local bars had specifically turned to other channels because nobody can stand watching Bush lie any more.

Remember when we used to impeach people for what Bush and his comrades have done?

Comment by vooodooo84

vooodooo84 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:37:59 -0800

@8 too bad all his lies weren't involved in some irrelevant tangent to a sexual harassment case deposition.

Uncounted hundreds of thousand Iraqis dead
thousands of Americans dead

small potatoes compared to a lie meant to keep a consensual affair private

Comment by Zander

Zander — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:00:48 -0800

WIS really not much of an observation. You think people go to bars on Monday night to watch C-SPAN or CNN. Maybe football. That's about it.

Comment by Brian in Seattle

Brian in Seattle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:01:00 -0800

SO...what happens when China passes the US in greenhouse gas emissions in about a decade or less and they are exempt from the Kyoto agreement???? what than?
Will the world's ire suddenly be turned upon China? Somehow I doubt this will happen. And if the activists go there to protest they'll mostly just end up in prison or shot, not allowed to prance around in the streets with big signs.
By the way, Im not saying we shouldnt reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of a broader strategy to reduce all pollution as much as possible , but it does strike me as horrible policy to not have the soon to be worlds greatest CO2 emitter as part of the treaty.

Comment by wile_e_quixote

wile_e_quixote — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:24:36 -0800

Why is it that politicians have to be so polite to each other. Would Pelosi lose any support if she introduced Bush by saying "Here's President Bush, thank the fuck Christ that this is the last time we'll have to listen to this asshole giving the State of the Union address. Unless of course Cheney is plotting a coup to keep this shithead in power and avoid the inevitable war crimes trials"? Not from me she wouldn't. And then if the Democratic response started off with something like "Well, if the president were any more full of shit you could use him to fertilize the Sahara desert. Let's see, shall we do the big lies first and work our way down the list or start with the little lies first and work our way up?" I want the British House of Commons, but pissed off and jacked to the gills on bad crank and malt liquor

Comment by sittingduck

sittingduck — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:05:08 -0800

Say we do get some sort of international protocal, can we really deny the right of developing countries to develop in the same ways we have? Or will green technology catch up?

Comment by point x point synopsis

point x point synopsis — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:27:29 -0800

"can we really deny the right of developing countries to develop in the same ways we have? Or will green technology catch up?"

whichever one that makes more money in the short term, of course. Expensive and responsible long term investment strategies are for bitch ass commie suckas. {/channeling bellevue ave}

Comment by don quixote

don quixote — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:11:11 -0800

What gets me is his "we want to open up markets for trade...free markets..oppurtunities for Americans" while simultaneously closing down America to outsiders. It's a two way street dude, either close it all down or open up *your* country too. Nobody'll be complaining if he does either.
Except perhaps NASA might get screwed since it's got 36% Indians alone.

Comment by don quixote

don quixote — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:14:22 -0800

@11 Good point, railing on China as possibly the future greatest polluter. By the same standard why shouldn't America as the *current* greatest polluter do something with the rest of the developed world cuts down?

Comment by mackro mackro

mackro mackro — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:26:14 -0800

@12: Right on. They should have made an emergency call to Karen Finley, so she would show up, ambush the podium mid-speech, and do fun things with yams.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:14:31 -0800

there were far more stupid ideas in the SOTU speech than this.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:43:32 -0800

facts mean shit.