SOTU

Friends, I’ll be honest with you: I skipped the SOTU last night. This is the first time I’ve missed one in I do not know how long, but the prospect of allowing all of that bombastic hot air into my home was too much to bear. (I got to watch my hockey team inexplicably drop yet another game instead.) Really, I’m of the mind we should go back to the way this was done in Jefferson’s time and through the late 1800s: on paper. No television, no radio, no glorification of the president, no sitting through applause or wondering why Nancy Pelosi looks like she’s got a broken tailbone, one missing cheek, and the worst dry eyes ever.

I did tune in to hear BHO blaming We, The People, for his failures. Klassy guy. Even George III didn’t go that far, did he? And his snide, petulant treatment of the Supreme Court justices was nothing short of appalling. Put BHO and the SCOTUS in a room together, and the coffee service will have more genuine accomplishments to its name than the President. Separation of powers, buddy. Ever hear of it? To say nothing of common respect…

Most disturbing, however, was this passage:

…the cost of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will continue to skyrocket. That’s why I’ve called for a bipartisan fiscal commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad. This can’t be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem. The commission will have to provide a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline. Yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. So I will issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans. And when the vote comes tomorrow, the Senate should restore the pay-as-you-go law that was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s.

That is frightening. This POTUS is stating his intent to stampede over the elected representatives of the people—no matter how pathetic and awful they are—and do what he wants on his own. He’s already made it clear that he does not care to listen to We, The People; nor will he listen to more cautious elements within his own party, much less those on the other side of the aisle who have been, to their credit, continually offering alternative suggestions to BHOs policy proposals.

Moreover, this man has already signed an executive order giving INTERPOL authority above US law and US law enforcement officers, not to mention the establishment of the Council of Governors, which will deal with the  “synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States”. Remember that “civilian national security force” promised to us?

Regardless, his willingness to disregard the balance of powers is and should be unnerving and unsettling. This is what Woodrow Wilson and FDR did, and they were both very, very nasty men indeed.

If we must hear such awful and un-American things as came out of our President’s mouth last night, I’d rather listen to a speech by Hugo Chavez. Despite being evil, he’s at least somehow comical. Barack Obama is simply tiresome.