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Live Blogging the SOTU

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Goldy is live tweeting, so hell, I’ll live blog. Please join the fun in the comment thread.

We’ve got MSNBC on the tube here.

6:07: Obama is in the house.

6:08: Let’s try embedding a Goldy tweet:

6:10: Boehner still sounds drunk…

6:12: Goldy’s first verbal comment during Obama’s speech: “Look how grey he is”.

6:14: “The shadow of crisis has passed…” Okay…

6:16: Why the fuck do Presidents throw these stupid anecdotes into the SOTU?

6:18: Carl Ballard: “People almost always agree with cliches.”

6:18: Man…maybe it is MSNBC pulling tricks, but Boehner looks a LOT darker than Obama…

6:21: Did Obama just pull a Palin?!?!

6:23: ANOTHER ANECDOTE?!? WTF…did Shrub’s speech writer contribute to this??

6:34: My inner fashion nazi asks, “Is Michelle wearing some kind of armor?!?”

6:39: Precision medicine? How about just more accurate medicine?

6:49: Cuba: I think Marco Rubio’s head just exploded….

6:53: Climate: “Obama is trying to confuse us with numbers and facts and stuff.”

6:54: “We commit to cutting the population of Gitmo in half” But, but, but…isn’t that TORTURE???

7:26: Let the squealing begin!

7:29: “…higher monthly insurance bills….failed policies like ObamaCare.” YOU LIE!

7:30: “Keystone Jobs Bill” Um…somebody tell Joni about the Keystone jobs expectations.

7:40: The DL communists are now streaming Kshama Sawant.

8:02: Sawant’s live stream started but there is troubles with the livestream. No doubt we can blame the troubles on some flunkie earning minimum wage….

Comments

  1. 1

    “If you ever wanted to know what it looks like when 301 sphincters snap shut simultaneously, now you know.”
    Best comment about republicans watching the speech

  2. 2

    I asked my son what he thought the man on the right is thinking
    “Man…,I’m only here for the free cake, but now i have to sit through this speech “

  3. 3

    What an absolute waste of time. More pap and bellicose commentary from the campaigner in chief.

    We turned the page? You mean cut and run from Afghanistan just like Iraq!
    The shadow of crisis has passed?
    What happened in Yemen today?
    We now have the upper hand in the Overseas Contingency Operation?
    No mention of ISIS or Al Qaeda!
    Oh yeah, we forgot to send anyone to Paris for that solidarity meeting of leaders!
    Can’t call them Islamic terrorists or extremist Islamists!

  5. 5

    This comment thread is an absolute waste of time. Nothing here but pap and bellicosity from Puddy.

  6. 6

    Then there is a written SOTU aftermath http://www.theatlantic.com/pol.....on/384645/ Hey, it’s The Atlantic used by HA DUMMOCRETINS everywhere.

    As for the first explanation, President Obama didn’t merely tout his “American Jobs Act” within a State of the Union address. He actually convened both houses of Congress in September 2011 for an address on that single proposal. Obama then reprised that speech again and again across the country over the next year. He ignited nothing. Can he really imagine that his new—and much less likely to be popular—proposals will spark more excitement? The advance reports suggest the president will abolish a popular middle-class savings vehicle for college education and that he wishes to double-tax estates, first with the estate tax itself, and then by applying additional capital gains taxes to selected assets within the already taxed estate. Liberals who work with polling data perplexedly acknowledge the massive unpopularity of the estate tax. This is not the stuff of which political paradigm shifts are made.

    The second explanation seems even more far-fetched. Democrats embarrass Republicans when they champion benefits that Americans regard as earned: Social Security and Medicare above all. Minimum wage increases? Super-popular. But when Democrats propose outright and visible redistribution of wealth, then they are playing on terrain Republicans long ago trenched, mined, and barbed-wired. “In these challenging times, higher taxation of job-creating investment is the very last thing this country needs.” Republicans can repeat that line in their sleep, without a gaffe, all day, every day, including weekends.

    Yes, while HA DUMMOCRETINS cheered as the LIVs they are, other people thought it through!

  7. 7

    Yawn.

    Now for something that actually could have a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming law:

    … a new minimum tax on foreign earnings should be created to help make it simpler for businesses to repatriate income.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....lcountdown

    Maybe not until 2017, of course. A minimum tax would likely be lower if the bill were signed by a GOP president. Not to mention after the ‘incomplete recovery’, as AP called it in their fact check analysis, stalls out and more cash infusion into the economy is needed. $2.1 trillion is no chump change.

    As long as Apple is able to borrow domestically at very low rates while keeping its cash hoard overseas, the leverage is not the government’s.

  8. 8

    Mr. Puddy you seem chock full of ideas and energy.

    We live in a democracy.

    Why not run for office? Say Seattle City Council, or shoreline or wherever you live, or king county council.

    Heck, run for congress is you like national issues.

    voters would flock to hear your message, right?

  9. 9

    A minimum tax would likely be lower if the bill were signed by a GOP president.

    Yeah like maybe Kansas Gov. Brownback.

  10. 10

    Turns out there was a little local flavor in the SOTU:

    Rebekah Erler has been presented by the White House as a woman who was discovered by the president after she wrote to him last March about her economic hardships. She was showcased in the speech as proof that middle class Americans are coming forward to say that Obama’s policies are working.

    Unmentioned in the White House bio of Erler is that she is a former Democratic campaign operative, working as a field organizer for Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.).

    http://freebeacon.com/politics.....n-staffer/

  14. 14

    Liv:

    An annoying fuck who constantly says stupid things.

    Perfect description of the insane idiot @ 6

    The President’s speech was merely ok.. The shithead Republicans will say no to most of it, make a show of working with the Dems on a few points all to look “moderate” for 2016 and distract from how greed-fueled and insane they all are.

    I’m not excited about a status-quo caretaker administration from Hillary. Who’s on the bench. Anyone?

  15. 15

    Wow ylbuttspigot arschloch,

    EPIC FAYLE again on low information voter from a low information voter!

    It liv’s on!

  16. 16

    Meanwhile,

    It seems Eric Holder will clear ex-officer Darren Wilson. HA DUMMOCRETINS will be pizzed! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01......html?_r=0

    WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black teenager in August, law enforcement officials said.

    That would close the politically charged case in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, the officials said.

  18. 18

    Wow,

    This senate DUMMOCRETIN not too impressed… http://www.breitbart.com/video.....of-tehran/

    “The more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran. And it feeds to the Iranian narrative of victimization, when they are the ones with original sin, an illicit nuclear weapons program going back over the course of 20 years that they are unwilling to come clean on. So I don’t know why we feel compelled to make their case”

    People standing up and are being counted 7 years too late of course!

  19. 19

    This is for ylbuttspigot arschloch,

    From DrudgeReport… with the links for each!

    Obama urges civility… Then taunts…
    Knocks ‘constant fundraising’… Then asks for donations…
    Address sets new record for most veto threats…

  20. 20

    @16 I didn’t know that holder worked for the FBI. The FBI investigated the white police officer in Ferguson. Holder is just carrying thru with FBI investigation.

    The FBI has never found any wrong doing by an agent involved in and deaths causes by the FBI. Why would they find anything wrong with ferguson.

    Funny, believe in IRS and Bengahi scandals but not an FBI scandal.

  22. 22

    EPIC FAYLE again on low information voter

    LMAO!!! “Liv” is exactly what I said it is, stupid, credulous bullshitting asshole troll. You were just projecting as usual. Such is the typical behavior of your tribe.

    We HA liberals made the right call on the stupid lying asshole R-Money. Even you said he was “not that great a candidate”.. You remember that?

    You remember when you said supporting R-Money would mean jobs? A 6 percent unemployment rate by 2016??? HAHAHA! What is the unemployment rate now, stupid, credulous bullshitting asshole troll?

    We acted appropriately on the available information. Did you?

    HAHAHAHA!

  23. 23

    From DrudgeReport…

    Thanks for nothing bullshitting asshole troll. If that website was a piece of paper, I’d wipe my ass with it and flush it.

    I can only wish the proprietor of that go-to place for assholes like Dori Monson and you – a future of higher taxes.. It would be fitting justice.

  24. 24

    Now that an applause analysis has been done, this is what Republicans did NOT clap for last night:

    An improving economy
    A soaring stock market
    Americans getting health insurance
    Mention of “solar power”
    Tax cuts for working families
    Affordable childcare
    Tax cuts for families with children
    Equal pay for women
    “America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.”
    A “free and open internet”
    Rewarding companies that “invest in America”
    “Working Americans”
    A resolution for the use of the force against ISIL
    “Trying something new” with Cuba
    Acknowledging that climate change exists
    Prohibiting Torture
    Not persecuting “people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.”
    Closing Gitmo
    Making “voting easier for every single American”

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....ail=email#

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