SOTU Transcript and other news

John Cook's Skeptical Science site is rewriting history again. If the evidence is so solid, why do they need to do this so much?

On another topic that causes the media much fear, the March for Life goes on in D.C. I assume they are afraid of it, and that's why they don't want readers to know about (they have reported 'protests' of ten peopple, but not hundreds of thousands)

I got the giggles over Ed Morrisey's explanation of the pattern for SOTU speeches, no matter who is President.

Byron York reminds us what really happened in the Gingrich Ethics case:

Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it's worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997.  The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich's former political opponents. It received saturation coverage in the press; a database search of major media outlets revealed more than 10,000 references to Gingrich's ethics problems during the six months leading to his reprimand.  It ended with a special counsel hired by the House Ethics Committee holding Gingrich to an astonishingly strict standard of behavior, after which Gingrich in essence pled guilty to two minor offenses.  Afterwards, the case was referred to the Internal Revenue Service, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the matter.  And then, after it was all over and Gingrich was out of office, the IRS concluded that Gingrich did nothing wrong.  After all the struggle, Gingrich was exonerated.

How do we know what we think we know, when the media is so dishonest?

Not that Newt's pure as the snow in my backyard (where the dog romps and the squirrels play), but still.  He's more of a dingy gray than the dark and dirty scoundrel the media portrays.

Are we a democracy?  It's an important question, and I wish more of our citizens understood the difference between a democracy and a republic.

Awwww, isn't that sweet? The Obama's gave 1% of their wealth to charity.  The Greedy Mitt Romney gave 15%.


Transcript:

SOTU address


Response

As for claims that the President has been obstructed by Republicans in Congress:

The New Yorker magazine this week has posted on its website a 57-page memo that economic adviser Larry Summers wrote to Mr. Obama in December 2008. It lays out nearly his entire agenda for the "stimulus," reviving housing, the auto bailout and saving the financial industry. If anything, the memo overstates what would be needed to stabilize the financial panic, but nearly all of the stimulus spending priorities that the memo deemed "feasible" made it into law. They simply didn't work as promised.
The Pelosi Congress also passed ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, cash for clunkers, the housing tax credit, and much more. The only Obama priority it didn't pass was cap-and-trade, which was killed by Senate Democrats.
Mr. Obama's regulators also currently have some 149 major rules underway, which are those that cost more than $100 million. The 112th Congress hasn't been able to kill a single major rule. The most it has been able to do is extend the Bush tax rates—which helped the economy by avoiding a tax shock—and slow the rate of increase in federal spending. This President has been "obstructed" less than anyone since LBJ.