Posts Tagged ‘State of the Union’
It is tradional for the political party in opposition to the President of the United States to give a rival speech on the night of the State of the Union address.
Yesterday the Republicans did even better… they supplied not one but TWO rebuttals from the other side of the aisle!
To get the Party started, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin gave the official Republican response following the President’s speech.
His remarks were followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota giving the Tea Party backed response. It was the latter response which had most pundits abuzz… but maybe not for the reasons you’d think.
The talk of the morning has been Bachmann’s seemingly failed attempt to look into the camera while delivering her remarks. David Axelrod, a top advisor to President Obama, even took a moment to poke fun when appearing on MSNBC later in the evening.
CNN, the only network to air the address, later explained Bachmann was looking into the Web-cam set up by the Tea Party Express and not the camera broadcasting across the nation…oops!
It’s going to be a big night… Because ForeverPlaid is taking over the USDemocrazy Twitter account to live-tweet the STATE OF THE UNION!
Tune into the speech at 9pm on the good old fashioned telly or watch the “enhanced experience” at the WhiteHouse.gov transmission. Whatever you do, keep on checking that Twitter page (give us a follow if you’re already on Twitter!) for some witty, frenetic, and even sometimes sincere commentary.
While you watch the clock as if a new Harry Potter book were coming out or something, check out these links for some pre-game HYPE.
Here’s what we hope to hear a bit tonight…
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Moment of Zen – State of the Union | ||||
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Do a Web search for megabucks and you will get this: Google boss get $100 million payout
Will you go to SOTU with me? Congress gets ready to mix it up.
Stand up, sit down, applaud, guffaw, chuckle, smirk, repeat…for one hour.
That pretty much describe how the folks in the Senate chamber reacted to the State of the Union address last night.
If you were sleeping listening to the President’s speech, you heard a lot of talk and a lot of promises… But what does it all mean?
We’ve found some pretty good analysis of the big event to help answer that question (And make you sound incredibly informed during the discussion at the water fountain/cooler today).
Some of the best commentary came via live blogs and Tweets. Catch up on what we had to say on Twitter in case you missed it! Some other great Tweets:
From the political satirist @BorowitzReport: Instant Poll: 90% of Republicans Who Did Not See Obama’s Speech Disagree With It
Getting to the point is @PatrickRuffini: This change stuff is HARD #shortersotu
Political analyst @marcambinder indicates a positive response to the address: CBS Instapoll: approve of the proposals? 83% said yes. Obama has same priorities as you have? (57% to 73% in sample from pre to post)
It’s that time of year again… THE STATE OF THE UNION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing gets us more excited than a presidential address to both houses of Congress!
Because we’re so excited, we’ll be Twittering the big event from just before it airs at 9:00pm until it’s all over and the media start hogging up all the Internet posting analysis and stuff.
Give us a follow for our crack analysis @USDemocrazy. If you’re not on Twitter yet — you’re missing out!
Don’t forget to prepare… Watch the video above to see another great (fake) president prep for his State of the Union (from “The West Wing”), check this link to see what Mr. Obama has to say in his big speech, and take a quiz to see if you’re up on your State of the Union trivia!
Courtesy of WikiCommons
State of the Union Tonight! Get in the Room for Debate!
One class you don’t want to fail… Report gives White House and Congress an “F” for response capability to biological attack.
A year after a “morbidly obese” dog froze to a Wisconsin sidewalk, the border collie mix has lost 40 pounds and is slowly returning to an active lifestyle.
So, it’s not a secret, the US has some debt.
Not like “oops I overdrew this month” debt, more like a $1.35 TRILLION deficit for the coming year.
The latest attempt to decrease this depressing disaster comes from the President. President Obama will seek a three-year freeze on some domestic spending.
Let both sides of the political aisle prepare their mud catapults! We’ve got the rundown…
