The best part of Bush's address was how efficiently it made use of his stump speech from the 2000 campaign. I mean, sure they had to write some shit about Iraq, but all the rest of it was pretty much a bunch of crap Bush thinks someone should do something about, and, by gum, maybe he's just the guy to do it! In other words, quite literally the same tired old baloney he's been serving up since 1999, back when he was auditioning for the job. Six years in, and he's still fixin' to solve these here problems. Yippee.
This dude mocking the president may genuinely be more enlightening than the actual president at this point. (Via C&L.)
Moving on to the highlight of the evening… Jim Webb's rebuttal (video & transcript) was excellent, and, in addition to some truly stellar content ("These Presidents took the right kind of action, for the benefit of the American people and for the health of our relations around the world. Tonight we are calling on this President to take similar action, in both areas. If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way."), it also provided us with what Atrios has deemed Your Moment of Gloat: "Senator Jim Webb is giving the Democratic response to the SOTU this evening. George Allen won't even be at the SOTU tonight."
Fucking gorgeous, that.
Meanwhile, unless my parents, Mr. Shakes, and I are all crazy (which is always a distinct possibility), NBC's Brian Williams introduced Jim Webb as "the Republican Senator" who would be giving the Democratic rebuttal. Annoying. How much are they paying him to be so stupid? I hope John Amato can find video of this for me—and of Bush copping a feel off Pelosi. Perv.
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