Barack Obama was at his posing-for-a-bust-of-himself best in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Roadmap) delivered an appropriately tight-lipped response, which included this statement:
Washington should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.
He’s right. It’s the business of the chin-strokerati to pick winners and losers.
Consequently, here’s the hardworking staff’s handy Clip ‘n’ Save SOTU Scorecard.
Winners Losers
Clean Energy Big Oil
Science/Math TV
Hard work/discipline PR/Fame
Race to the Top No Child Left Behind
Governors Capitol Hill
Students Bankers
Good teachers Bad teachers
Illegals’ children Tea Party
Taxpayers Tax accountants
Fiscal responsibility Deficit spending
Doctors Medical malpractice lawyers
Children/schools Wealthiest 2% of population
Current Social Security recipients Future Social Security recipients
Job counselors Federal bureaucrats
At least that’s the tally in ObamaWorld.
Kindly forward your RyanWorld scorecards soonest.
Paul Ryan delivered the Republican response to the President’s SOU? I was sure that it was Michelle Bachmann. Tea Party, Republican leadership, it’s so hard to tell who’s running their show.
Ryan’s scorecard looked a lot like:
Winner: Branding; Loser: The Truth
Ryan’s speech was remarkable for its sheer density of mendacity. Possibly a record for lies per word, and in D.C. the bar for that is set pretty darn high.
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