So I felt I owed it to myself to offer President Bush the courtesy of watching his final State of the Union address last night. I figured it was probably one of the last, if not the last time, that any substantial portion of the country would pay any significant attention to him before he rides off into the sunset to be commissioner of Major League Baseball.
A friend emailed me earlier in the day to say that she would not be able to watch as she has no TV and wasn't able to load the video properly on her computer. My projection of his speech consisting of a variation on the standard themes of "war, tax cuts, war, strong economy, tax cuts, war, "I have built a great legacy," tax cuts, tax cuts, Saddam had WMD even if we haven't found them yet" proved to be somewhat close, though not quite right, unfortunately.
The one thing that did catch my attention was the President's reference to the extensive use of earmarks by Congress to fund their "pet projects."
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