Bush Plans Modest Final State of the Union Speech

Source: Los Angeles Times

Bush plans modest final State of the Union speech

Amid low approval ratings, an opposition Congress and the contest for his successor, the president will emphasize the economy and unfinished business.
By James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 27, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Beginning his final year in office with low approval ratings, a Democratic Congress and a nation fixated on choosing his successor, President Bush is preparing a State of the Union speech for Monday that will accentuate unfinished business and lay out modest goals.

In his radio address Saturday, Bush said he would use his speech to urge congressional action to stimulate the economy and to authorize a warrantless wiretapping program that provides legal immunity for telephone companies that cooperated with administration surveillance efforts before laws were changed.

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What aides called the president's "realistic" agenda will feature no new calls for past administration initiatives, such as overhauling immigration laws or Social Security.

Likewise, Bush is not expected to detail plans for operations in Iraq once the ongoing troop buildup ends as planned in July. A senior administration official involved in Iraq policy said the president was wary of preempting a scheduled report in March by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the Iraq commander, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad.

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Read that again: "authorize a warrantless wiretapping program that provides legal immunity for telephone companies that cooperated with administration surveillance efforts before laws were changed."

What a joke this country is becoming.

is that he's resigning

He's just in essence testified against the companies in front of all of us - accomplice testimony. That should be usable in court if it can be corroborated.

eom

he doesn't have a thing to crow about. Everything he has done while in office has been a disaster. It's pretty easy being "modest" when you haven't accomplished ONE good thing in 7+ years in office.

So yeah, Georgie, you have your little sham of a SOTU speech, your L-A-S-T SOTU speech (I guess that has to be our silver lining), then sit the hell down, shut the hell up and try not to fuck anything more up for the next 11 months. PLEASE?

Our long national nightmare is nearing it's end. Now for the cleaning up and deBushifying of our government, foreign relations, economy, country etc. etc. etc. The real work is just beginning.

my, how very far we've fallen.

He is flying quite high for being a "lame duck". Many of our Dem's in office support his flight. Sadly we have fallen so far that we can't distinguish a hawk from a duck.

Be sure to grab "Uncle Dic" on your way out, and be sure not to let the White House door hit you in the ass when you leave.

....You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fvckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good... So say good night to the bad guy!...

If he wanted to be modest, he would say nothing. If he wanted to be a good person, he would fire Cheney and then quit.

9/11

I heard a clip on NPR the other day of him saying that over and over through the years. Made me want to puke.
:puke:

it should consist of: "Hi, Bye".

No matter what this fool says, it will be seen as something nothing more than tear the country further apart. "Warrantless Wiretapping"...again!?! Just how far out of Constitutional bounds can this guy go?

I have to wonder if he'll have another of those :wtf: moments and come up w/another line about "human/animal" procreation...at least that woke everyone up last time...:D

...you would have had a forgettable one term stolen Presidency instead a an eight year Spectacular Failure!

9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11

You and Saudi Arabia will be remembered.

But golly, I guess his promise just a couple of weeks ago to bring peace to the Middle East is going to go by the boards. This surprises me, because I figured for sure that the MBA president would be able to do in 12 months what Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton had all failed to do in 60 years.

... last year (wasn't it?) he was going to throw the kitchen sink at AIDS research.

Another year, another big lie. Surprised? :shrug:

... and there's nothing more for his war-profiteering cronies to pilfer so he and Dick'll sneak quietly away, stock options and cushy retirement plan in their bloody hands.

They've taken the 1999 budget surplus and then some for their industry of never-ending war: time for them to find another Sugar Mama.

as Mark Twain might say.

"Post-war Iraq"!

This was posted by "orleans" In GD

What they did was illegal and ineffective in that we still got attacked, in spite of their "helping". MKJ

"Mmmm...custard good."

Where's that versatile picture of him and the two other men when I need it...

This story does not tell it all.
In fact Dana Bushwhore is saying that he will be boasting about how he is going to govern by executive order for the rest of his term.

Nazdaq story

"The President will mention policies that can be implemented through executive or administrative action without congressional involvement," White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino said."

The Decider will be Deciding a lot more it seems.

:kick:

MKJ

we ain't seen nothing yet? I do.

apologetic.
And, perhaps, from Bermuda or an undisclosed beach.
Yeah, he should just... fade away.
And leave all the decisions to us.

Please... somebody... save us from his b.s. idea of circumventing what's left of the Constitution.
Please.

(I keep repeating this mantra: one more year, you can stand one more year...) (but I dunno)

PLEASE MAKE THE BAD MAN GO AWAY!

Republic! Only the last of the loyalists will even listen: Opie, Gingrey, Mean Jean, etc., and the loonie senators Kyl, Brownback, etc. Oh, Condi still thinks he may be sorta keen, I suppose and a few of the generals. . .

lord, it's hard to be humble, when your a right wing corporate elites and $$$rich$$$.

If he says one thing, believe the other - in general.

He does not have to put us through his state of the union ordeal next year. ? / Its just a written statement, as is the last year's custom?

My only fear is that it truly will be the final state of the nation address. He has one more year left to destroy what is left of this country.

clapping for what he has done the past 7 years and what he plans in the upcoming year will be disgraceful

If even one applauds for him, they've proven themselves a turncoat. There's politeness and then there's senseless pandering to a man with less approval than Nixon.

Anybody got any rotten fruit?

"The country is strong because of me. I spread freedom. I was a uniter. I didn't do nation building. I created jobs. I walked on water, shit gold, and farted rainbows."

n/t

Uh, under the shrub regime (aka the dickmeister regime) ... can you say SNAFU? How's about you just FOAD, m'kay?

CLINTON'S Peace Hope and Prosperity are just so - last century ...

safe we are as a republican legacy that must be kept up by voting another repuke in.

This year is going to be a final rape of the US treasury, Us contracts, and aiding crony positions. He'll want to leave more contracts to Haliburton, Bechtel, et al in the name of the iran war as well as push his traitor fathers agenda of securing family oil and selling arms to the mideast (for personal kick back).

That said, I wonder if there's anyway he can pardon himself before he's out, lest we ever actually try him for his crimes against Humanity, the United States, and Iraq. I fully expect more, Prez-and-Vice-prez-have-imunity legslation coming down the pipe.

And being truly evil as this gutter fish is, I expect one more try at increasing the power of the patriot act. He says he'll avoid congress but he always lies. If he avoids them it will be by some dictatorial precedent that repukes in congress won't hold him accountable for.

I expect a big rape of US-resources free-for-all, first and formost though.

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I got a sneak peek:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0UGVgi9wv_w

no confidence and hold the elections for a new pres in a month and be done with it.

He;s caused us (USA and the world) enough pain.