I got back from studying last night just in time to catch the last half of the State of the Union address. While these things are relatively ceremonial (an outline of the speech was posted a day before the actual address), it is a good show of how divided the political spectrum is nowadays. I would like to mention one thing during that speech that made me fairly angry. Bush made a comment that we need to reform social security. While making headlines for a while last year, both parties eventually agreed to pass the bill onto people who will actually be alive when the shit begins to hit the fan. However, the Democrats started to hoot and holler like a bunch of idiot children after Bush said his reforms failed to pass. I guess they enjoy the fact that they have pulled a fast one on the American public and can sit back with their Senate pensions as we all try to scrape along trying to pay high social security taxes (predicted to be around 60% of the government budget by 2030).

The Republicans are definitely not without their faults, one thing I would like to mention is that Bush is pushing for line-item vetoes, something the Republicans opposed Clinton using. This has great potential for getting rid of crap that goes through Congress, such as those small million dollar projects that are often attached to bills of a totally different nature.

I would like to end the comment by saying one thing, opposition can be good to spur debate Democrats, but dammit, don't feed me the bullshit that Republicans are wrong but not give me why or what would youv do to change. That goes for Senator Murtha, who they pulled from the depths of the senate floor for us all to hear his Marlo Brando impression about pulling out of Iraq.

-Trevor