Apologies to George Orwell for the theft of the title.
I don't usually pay a lot of attention to US Presidents' State Of the Union addresses, being filled as they usually are with empty political blather: We will restore dignity for, um, whatever.
The Democrat response: Gov. Keien? Keeen? Keine? Of Kentucky. If that's the best you can put up: some hack politician nattering on about veterans' benefits that he has no interest or capability of delivering: welcome to the 2006 GOP majority.
Why do we fight?
I hope it's because we elect flawed people who keep their eye on the big picture: GWB on the War On Terror and the Supreme Court; Stephen Harper in the dream that he can somehow turn this shipwreck of a nation around.
Update: I stand corrected. Though I have no real choice, considering the righteous spanking administered by commenter and blogstress marybeth -- a winsome, yet stern daughter of Kentucky, who points out that the forementioned doofus of a Governor hails in fact from Virginia.
Geez. I hope I got the Orwell quote right.
Comments (3)
As a native Kentuckian, I would like to point out that the response was from the governor of Virginia.
After approximately forever, we finally elected a Republican governor in our state. You might remember hearing about him - it was his plane that caused the evacuation of the Captiol when he was headed to D.C. for Reagan's funeral.
Not that I'm bragging, or anything....
Posted by marybeth | February 2, 2006 4:45 AM
Posted on February 2, 2006 04:45
Whoops. I confess I wasn't really paying attention. I shall offer my grovelling apologies in the update.
Posted by gnotalex | February 2, 2006 12:16 PM
Posted on February 2, 2006 12:16
Geez. I hope I got the Orwell quote right.
I wasn't going to comment on that - I like things that make pacifists froth and twitch. (If I had been able to give my comment a title it would have been "Gov. Fletcher Goes to Washington".)
Posted by marybeth | February 4, 2006 6:59 AM
Posted on February 4, 2006 06:59