Along with a few dozen others last night, I watched the President give his annual State of the Union (SOTU) speech before Congress. He was often interrupted by applause; some report about one hundred times during a sixty-minute speech. As I watched this, I was reminded of various times in history when a great leader would dare to stand and tell people the uncomfortable truth that was tough to swallow.
What if the President stood and bravely told Congress what many of us want to be communicated?
When will you legislate a bill that closes our borders to illegal immigration/drug shipments and implements a temporary work permit that our economy badly needs?
When will you understand the importance of your job and start working five days a week?
When will you pass each bill on its merits and stop adding local pork bills to unrelated bills?
When will you reduce the unending hearings where you prance before the cameras and instead focus on a few investigations that result in real learning and associated legislation?
When will you gain the courage to address the coming Social Security and Medicare funding issues?
When will you start acting like states and begin balancing the budget? Can’t you reduce the expenses of the Federal budget by just 5%?
When will you address the Fentanyl crisis killing our kids?
When will you do the dirty work of ensuring our power distribution network is updated/secure and able to handle the demands of a shift to renewable energy?
And you can probably add a few more…
The current speech format is a spectacle that rewards the party in power with numerous applause lines. It is void of a leader that independently challenges a congress that can’t get anything of any importance jointly done. Enough of the clapping, we want the American government to serve the people, and we are looking for leaders to step out of the adoring fans stage and act.
Washington DC is adrift in a shark infested ocean. At the helm is all the kings eunuchs screaming I’m driving.
All while the king himself talks gibberish in his restless slumber.
Alas our once great nation languishes for leadership. Who is to be our statesman to carry us forward with words and deeds in abject harmony.
I saw one last night high behind the eunuch king
He smiled as he quietly chatted with the king’s salad master. He watched quietly neither a hiss nor a boo did he utter statesman that he is. And yet as his minions boos and whine they did see that tweak of the eye as a father would scold his errant brood.
And I say to Mr Kennedy you have it backwards. It’s NOT “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country?” Taxes he said pay more. Tyranny says I.
But where are the statesmen, where are the leaders? Be they hiding in their wealth be smitten by their rank?
We of our country must demand accountability with both Truth and Justice, it IS the American Way.
Washington DC is adrift in a shark infested ocean. At the helm is all the kings eunuchs screaming I’m driving.
All while the king himself talks gibberish in his restless slumber.
Alas our once great nation languishes for leadership. Who is to be our statesman to carry us forward with words and deeds in abject harmony.
I saw one last night high behind the eunuch king
He smiled as he quietly chatted with the king’s salad master. He watched quietly neither a hiss nor a boo did he utter statesman that he is. And yet as his minions boos and whine they did see that tweak of the eye as a father would scold his errant brood.
And I say to Mr Kennedy you have it backwards. It’s NOT “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country?” Taxes he said pay more. Tyranny says I.
But where are the statesmen, where are the leaders? Be they hiding in their wealth be smitten by their rank?
We of our country must demand accountability with both Truth and Justice, it IS the American Way.
I didn't watch, anticipating it'd be less enlightening and entertaining than nothing. I was right.