State of the Union

I'll bet ratings for this event last night hit all time highs. This Amercian has and will continue to be impressed with the President and his speech writers. He still remains our best hope for recovery and is the countries best cheerleader. I think he called out the R's and the D's as he should have, called out the SJC as he should have and highlighted the continual big money influence that has stalled his attempts at any meaningful reforms of any kind.

I liked what he said about jobs creation in green energy, tax breaks for middle class, college dept exclusion, ending the war in Iraqi bringing our troops home and tax breaks for businesses that hire new employees.

It was very telling and reflective of the deep divisions that separate the two parties and one should question why the R's didn't stand up and applaud job creation. And while some, including this American, feel a halt to spending increases for discretionary funding is way past due.

Overall, his plans seem to be what we need to move away from this recession and he seemed to throw out a carrot to the R's on several fronts, none that I believe in, like more nuke plants, more offshore and public land exploration of oil and gas and he did remind us all, of what he inherited. Americans seem to forget that quickly.

The most pathetic, scripted, left wing response from the R's last night, talks a familiar talk, with all the key phrases and bullet points, and references to our founding fathers, working together to find answers to our problems. But the reality is that the hard left and hard right, can't get anything done for the people.

The biggest question, who's answer may not be clear for several years, do we buy our way out of this mess or do we just give tax breaks to the already rich and let trickle down economics restore millions of jobs?.