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]]> by: Austin Cassidy’s Third Party Watch » Blog Archive » Green Video Response to Bush Speech http://thirdpartywatch.com/2006/01/31/greens-plan-state-of-the-union-rebuttal/#comment-2413 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:59:10 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2006/01/31/greens-plan-state-of-the-union-rebuttal/#comment-2413 [...] As we mentioned before, the Green Party has put together a nice little response to the State of the Union speech. As part of the effort the Green Party has posted these five videos on the party website. [...] [...] As we mentioned before, the Green Party has put together a nice little response to the State of the Union speech. As part of the effort the Green Party has posted these five videos on the party website. [...]

]]> by: The Girondin http://thirdpartywatch.com/2006/01/31/greens-plan-state-of-the-union-rebuttal/#comment-2374 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:48:59 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2006/01/31/greens-plan-state-of-the-union-rebuttal/#comment-2374 Here's my Libertarian rebuttal: Big Talk, Big Spender Hey, it turns out "the state of our Union is strong!" What a nice surprise -- I thought we were pretty much in the toilet, myself. Shows what I know. It seems that no matter which white guy is president at the moment, that line always appears in the Big Speech. In the New York Times yesterday, ex-Bill Clinton speechwriter Ted Widmer said that the "Constitution does not technically require that these seven words be spoken by the president. But like a clogged artery, the sentence has hardened into oratorical tradition." Why not something new? "The state of our Union is spiffy!" "The state of our Union is funky!" "The state of our Union is crantastic!" As for the speech, the State of the Union is sanitized for your protection, as it always is. As my imaginary girlfriend Sarah Vowell writes today, also in the Gray Lady, "It has been said that God is currently angry with America. But according to God's publicist, the Supreme Being would like to clarify that He's not angry, but that 'He would like His name taken off the credits.'" Elsewhere on the political spectrum, Bill Kristol -- who really should be a Libertarian by now -- said on Fox News, "I think conservatives will not be entirely happy with this speech. There was more attention given to big government energy initiatives than to defending the tax cuts." I will never be president, and not just because I'm a Libertarian. While I am in fact a white guy, there's too much dirt. (The maid of honor at my wedding has since become a man, for example.) But if I was president, I would end the abuse of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. No more co-opting of a constitutional requirement for the purposes of delivering a 90-minute campaign speech. No more big speeches chock full of new pocket-picking "initiatives" and guaranteed clap-lines. Just a simple letter to Congress. My first State of the Union: "The state of our Union is slowly recovering, as long as you and I don't screw it up." Here’s my Libertarian rebuttal:

Big Talk, Big Spender

Hey, it turns out “the state of our Union is strong!” What a nice surprise—I thought we were pretty much in the toilet, myself. Shows what I know.

It seems that no matter which white guy is president at the moment, that line always appears in the Big Speech. In the New York Times yesterday, ex-Bill Clinton speechwriter Ted Widmer said that the “Constitution does not technically require that these seven words be spoken by the president. But like a clogged artery, the sentence has hardened into oratorical tradition.”

Why not something new? “The state of our Union is spiffy!” “The state of our Union is funky!” “The state of our Union is crantastic!”

As for the speech, the State of the Union is sanitized for your protection, as it always is. As my imaginary girlfriend Sarah Vowell writes today, also in the Gray Lady, “It has been said that God is currently angry with America. But according to God’s publicist, the Supreme Being would like to clarify that He’s not angry, but that ‘He would like His name taken off the credits.’” Elsewhere on the political spectrum, Bill Kristol—who really should be a Libertarian by now—said on Fox News, “I think conservatives will not be entirely happy with this speech. There was more attention given to big government energy initiatives than to defending the tax cuts.”

I will never be president, and not just because I’m a Libertarian. While I am in fact a white guy, there’s too much dirt. (The maid of honor at my wedding has since become a man, for example.) But if I was president, I would end the abuse of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. No more co-opting of a constitutional requirement for the purposes of delivering a 90-minute campaign speech. No more big speeches chock full of new pocket-picking “initiatives” and guaranteed clap-lines. Just a simple letter to Congress. My first State of the Union: “The state of our Union is slowly recovering, as long as you and I don’t screw it up.”

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