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The State of
the Union
Posted by Erick Erickson
Wednesday, January 25th
There need not be 7000 words, the length of the President’s speech, to
break it down for you.
John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your country.”
Barack Obama’s State of the Union is all about letting you know that
government is going to do everything for you and when it can’t keep its
promises, it will take from the successful and give to you.
1000 days without the Democrats passing a budget, the President never
really even brought it up last night. Then there’s healthcare. The
President spent two sentences – a mere 44 words – talking about his
greatest legacy, now headed before the Supreme Court, 5 justices from
which sat in front of him last night. The first reference didn’t come
until 39 minutes into his speech. I thought he was proud of it.
The first half of his speech was about centralized power in Washington
and the second half was about devolving power to the states and
deregulation — trying to be all things to all people. But his actual
proposals were one size fits all federal fiat with sops to unionization
and swing states. He must be really worried about North Carolina given
how many shout outs that state got.
President Obama, in his State of the Union address, was light on the
details of his laundry list, but at essence embraced the title of Food
Stamp President that Newt Gingrich has given him. He wants a public and
business community dependent on Washington. He wants a devalued high
school diploma and an over valued college degree priced out of reach of
the average person except through government run programs and subsidies.
The happy class warrior is off to ensure fairness not at the starting
line, but by punishing those who cross the finish line first or with
more. But “teachers matter”, he got Osama Bin Laden, and kids won’t be
able to drop out of school anymore — they’ll just clog the system.
So there is that.
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