George Will: State of the Union will try to ‘Stroke Every Erogenous Zone’
On “This Week with Christiane Amanpour,” ABC News’ George Will expressed his opposition to the theatrics engendered by the State of the Union address. “Every president, regardless of party, tries to stroke every erogenous zone in electorate,” said Will.
Echoing a description by Chief Justice John Roberts, Will called the State of the Union a political pep rally. “If it's going to be a pep rally,” Will exclaimed on the “This Week” roundtable, “with the president's supporters or whatever party standing up and braying approval, and histrionic pouting on the part of the other, then it's no place for the judiciary, it's no place for the uniformed military, and it's no place for non-adolescent legislators.”
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Obama makes good speeches, that’s what got him elected, but he does not have a clue about how to grow jobs and the economy and reduce the budget deficit. Actions do count and that is what I look at. I doubt he will tell Americans that 1m public sector jobs will be lost this year and balanced against the 1-1.5m private sector job gains will leave unemployment about the same. Public sector unions will lose jobs so fast that it will be a tsunami going into the 2012 elections. He will have a hard time telling the truth.
Posted by: Harvey Ring | January 23, 2011, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
2.5 trillion spent on spy satellite. But only place they can find cuts is Medicare and social security! Political rhetoric. Want to shut people up and slow down talk of cuts? Easy go after the old and those already cheated out of their pensions through corporate bankruptcy. Worked twenty to thirty years for one corporation, who rewarded them by moving plant overseas after declaring bankruptcy and taking those pensions for their Golden parachutes (yea that is right the executives made millions on the bankruptcy by stealing pension funds) so the hard working employee now forced to live on SS which they were originally planning on not using at all! Pentagon spends hundreds of billions every year on ex-military ‘procurement experts’ contractors but that is not even on the table. The very understaffed and under paid foot soldier is who we cut. Had to call up 90% of reservists to fight little war in Iraq; but hey, we can afford to cut soldiers. The hell we can! We sent them into battle without armor plating plus made them pay for their body armor ( thanks Bush), but plenty of money; trillions in over runs alone, to produce new jet fighter? Not on table! Many new patents come out of these projects, that we the taxpayer paid for, yet we get no revenue from the sale and use of these patents. Very wrong process here. If we the people owned these patents it would pay for the jet development by itself! So why are these patents given freely to the company that used our tax dollar for the research? Why is this not part of the discussion? Trillions of dollars available without cutting any social programs at all, so why then is this the single focus? Shut the people up. Convince us we have to pay more for their mismanagement! You want cuts it is going hurt you not me! People remember this in the poles no incumbent gets reelected! Tell them no more of this crap, we want real solutions that cut waste, excessive spending, handouts to cronies resulting in kickbacks for campaign coffers! Clean up your act or we will use facebook to elect our own people. Speaking of cleaning up your act. New bill return campaign funds to the people verse becoming politicians retirement account. This ends illegal bribery or lobbying, puts billions back into government coffers, while ending the need to double cross the people. No payout, No income, no need to cheat the people! Simple solution to most of what is wrong in Washington. One simple single bill. I would call it the Christina Green bill!
Posted by: Michael Plunkett | January 23, 2011, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm
9.4% is the new normal.
Posted by: LongT | January 23, 2011, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
George Wills never complained before THI””””””””””’s President’s speech. Wow…I didn’t realize how biased and racist America IS. Oh, well, the racist just deny and call it something else.
Posted by: raven | January 23, 2011, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
what a great way to describe the sotu, it’s soo true…ewww!
Posted by: cindy | January 23, 2011, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Why pick on social security.. it is fully funded by us.. the government doesn’t put any money into that… how about cutting some of the extra taxes they pay out for ppl that did not even earn that much
Posted by: Mezmer | January 23, 2011, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
The State of the Union address, will be a totally blown out of proportion snow job, about Obama’s “accomplishments”, which most of us would see as non-events.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | January 23, 2011, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
Obama has accomplished a great deal, but it is all within the context of business as usual, and BAU will not work going forward. The entire financial and economic system of the country–in fact, the world–is obsolete and cannot work. Growth is no longer possible. Sustainability, locality, localvorism, are in; the gas-guzzling automobile, the global empire, global trade, and unlimited credit are out. But Obama will talk about the fiction of BAU because the American people are too wasted to be able to face reality.
Posted by: Dayahka2 | January 23, 2011, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
“Why pick on social security.. it is fully funded by us”
It’s not fully funded.
It’s broke.
There is no ‘fund’. The money gets spent each year and the benefits get paid out of current revenue.
It’s a Ponzi game, and those who run it would be in jail if they ran such a scheme outside the doors of the Capitol.
Posted by: Joe White | January 23, 2011, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
What does George Will know about what sells?
Tonight’s 2011 SOTU? Gonna be dynamite. A veritable political-entertainment extravaganza. It will mark the first time Obama uses the karaoke setting on the teleprompter and sings his yakhammerfest.
George Will is right, conceptually. Boring. But right. Obama on the otherhand knows how to give good circus.
Posted by: dom youngross | January 25, 2011, 9:41 am 9:41 am