Cynical Nation

I don't know how long I'll be able to stick with this, but here goes.

BTW, I haven't had a chance to organize a drinking game yet, but I personally plan to drink every time the president doesn't mention Social Security reform.

I had barely heard that Cindy Sheehan would be in attendance on a guest pass, and I was preparing to make a joke about whether she'd bring her new boyfriend Hugo Chavez, but now I hear she's been arrested. I sense the dark curtain of fascism descending across our land.

UPDATE: You can see Sam Alito looking around like a hayseed tourist on his first visit to the big city. You can tell he's newly minted.

UPDATE: Condi's outfit looks terrific. Laura's doesn't.

UPDATE: This was supposed to be a less ambitious SOTU address, but he's already called for an end to tyranny worldwide.

UPDATE: All right, I'm getting bored already....

UPDATE: Bush: "Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy." Me: "That's a good line." My wife: "He didn't write it."

UPDATE: Nice line on the NSA surveillence. Nice smirk afterwards.

UPDATE: John McCain looks happy to hear about "earmark reform." I am too. Bush wants the line-item veto. Would he use it if he had it?

UPDATE: For the love of God, where is Jack Bauer?!?

UPDATE: More math and science!! Fuck yeah!!

UPDATE: Michael Graham notes a missed opportunity: "When Democrats began celebrating wildly the fact that they have done nothing to rescue Social Security, they handed Bush an opportunity to step away from the text and point out the partisan cynicism of celebrating failure. My comment would have been 'Remember that applause 13 years from now when Social Security goes broke.'"