Tonight was the Presidents final SOTUA.  Some good things, some so so.  I won’t overly editorialize it, I will let you make your own call.  Read the text here.

The absolute best line:

Some in Washington argue that letting tax relief expire is not a tax increase. Try explaining that to 116 million American taxpayers who would see their taxes rise by an average of $1,800. Others have said they would personally be happy to pay higher taxes. I welcome their enthusiasm, and I am pleased to report that the IRS accepts both checks and money orders.

Love it.

OK, the highlights:

• Make tax cuts permanent
• Cut spending
• Make earmarks fewer and more transparent
• Help homeowners
• Make health care better with more choices
• No Child Left Behind works, keep it alive
• More free trade
• More entitlements for the jobs lost because of free trade
• Less oil consumption
• More clean energy
• More adult stem cell research
• No cloning
• Judges should follow the constitution
• Congress hates Judges that follow the constitution
• Americans who volunteer rock.
• We need Social Security and Medicare reform
• Secure the border
• Make it easier for illegals to come here legally
• Don’t be mean to those illegals already here
• Democracy rocks
• Terrorists suck
• More troops for Afghanistan
• The surge in Iraq is working
• Failure in Iraq would be extremely bad
• Palestine may not be totally hopeless
• Iran sucks
• No new attacks in America since 2001
• FISA helped make that happen
• Genocide sucks
• Poverty sucks
• Disease sucks
• AIDS sucks
• The military rocks
• Veterans rock
• Americans rock
• America rocks

There you have it.

One interesting clip from Hot Air where even some of the stoic Democrats found their feet…briefly:

Another clip for consideration.  Hot Air also posted this, and it is a telling portrait of one of the differences between the left and the right.

Vote accordingly indeed.

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