The Tuesday ‘BushWhack’ing

Sorry I’m late this morning… the SOTU put me to sleep so hard I couldn’t wake up…

• “President” Bush’s final (YAY!!!) SOTU was last night… I tried to listen to it, but somewhere between ‘war’ and ‘peace’ I blacked out… though I did read a transcript this morning and… well… close your eyes hard and that’s what his speech was; nothingness… a big ol’ bag of nothingness.
• The republican Florida primary is today and… well, that’s it really…
• CNN Headline; “Bush Overshadowed by Presidential Race” (That’s some mighty-fine journalist work there Lou… Do we really need an analysis to tell us this?? Bush is a lameduck that only has an unpopular war as his legacy… while in the Presidential race we have a woman, an African-American, a Mormon, a Preacher, and someone who can best be described as bat-shit crazy; of course he’s being overshadowed… and with good cause…)
• The Economic Stimulus package that is being touted as a way to stop the looming recession even though the checks won’t be in people’s hands until, at the earliest, late June – thus negating it’s actual impact on the economy, is being “honed” by the Senate… and we all know how that usually goes. So we should expect the checks to start arriving in, say, October 2008…
• Sen. Obama won another strong endorsement yesterday, from Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MT), days after his niece, and JFK’s daughter, Caroline, endorsed him…
• Attorney General Mike “Please don’t call me an Albatross” Mukasey is planning to avoid the subject of waterboarding when he appears before Congress tomorrow… which brings to mind this when thinking of Mukasey and Gonzales… here comes the new AG, same as the old AG…
• And have we mentioned? That “President” Bush lives in a bubble… and that he’s okay with that? During a recent interview with Fox “News”, Bush admitted that he lives in a “bubble” but that “life’s pretty comfortable” inside said bubble… (Ok, I know the president of the US should be inside a bubble, but not to the point this one does… it’s clear from what he says that he has no true idea of what is going on in the world as he gets spoon-fed particular information from his staff and doesn’t dare ask questions. As I’ve said on this blog many times before; January 20, 2009 can NOT come soon enough…)