Update [2006-1-31 17:50:2 by susanhu]: The almost always dignified Other Lisa‘s on a roll today. She’s said FUCK twice already! In this e-mail, “Oh, fuck me.” … And she sends a link to “Bush to Say ‘America Addicted to Oil’.” — “ President Bush, pushing to take charge of the election-year agenda, said Tuesday that ‘America is addicted to oil’ and must break its dependence on foreign suppliers in unstable parts of the world.” (Susan holds head in hands, rocks back and forth in fetal position.)

Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: “Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us.”

     — Listen/watch/read at Democracy Now! A snippet:

I had a piece on the internet some of you may have seen a few days ago (Update [2006-1-31 17:32:25 by susanhu]:: It’s “President Jonah“; thanks to Wilderness Wench for the link) , and there’s a story about Tiberius, who’s one of my favorite Roman emperors. He’s had a very bad press, because the wrong people perhaps have written history. But when he became emperor, the Senate of Rome sent him congratulations with the comment, “Any law that you want us to pass, we shall do so automatically.” And he sent a message back. He said, “This is outrageous! Suppose I go mad. Suppose I don’t know what I’m doing. Suppose I’m dead and somebody is pretending to be me. Never do that! Never accept something like preemptive war,” which luckily the Senate did not propose preemptive wars against places they didn’t like. But Mr. Bush has done that.

     
So this is a sort of Tiberius time without, basically, a good emperor, and he was a good emperor in the sense that he sent back this legislation, which was to confirm anything he wanted to have done automatically. And they sent it back to him again. And then he said, “How eager you are to be slaves,” and washed his hands of the Senate and went to live in Capri, a much wiser choice, just as we can send this kid back to Crawford, Texas, where he’ll be very, very happy cutting bushes of the leafy variety. […]

     
… let the powers that be know that back of them, there’s something called “We the people of the United States,” and all sovereignty rests in us, not in the board rooms of the Republicans. … Listen/watch/read all.


Wes Clark Delivers The Real State of the Union:
     — Read all at WesPAC: Securing America A snippet:


Enough is enough! Forward an email to the White House today — tell President Bush that the American people demand better leadership to get our nation back on track. …

     [O]ur nation is in trouble, veering from its heritage, and sliding into a dangerous future.

     [F]our years after 9/11, Osama Bin Laden remains on the loose in the vastness of western Pakistan, and Al Qaeda remains a potent force among millions of Muslims.

     [D]espite our tough talk, Iran is discarding its international obligations in the apparent pursuit of nuclear weaponry.

     North Korea, with a standing army of more than 1 million men, armed with chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles, is defying US efforts to contain its threat of nuclear proliferation.

     [W]e are in danger of losing the very principles we are fighting for as revelations of torture and degrading treatment of those detained confound our long standing commitment to human rights.
     [R]ising global competitors like China are taking advantage of the security umbrella we have created to lock in their own access to the resources needed to fuel their stupendous growth.

     [T]he United States has stood silently while the historic opportunity of a democratic Russia is systematically crushed

     [A]t home more than 45 million Americans lack access to health insurance
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     [B]oth our infrastructure and our system of public education lack essential modernization and reform … Read all


And Prof. Juan Cole weighs in with his “Top Ten things Bush won’t Tell you About the State of the Nation,” beginning with ” US economic growth during the last quarter was an anemic 1.1%, the worst in 3 years.”

What’s your SOTU?