That sound you hear
…is an avalanche of other shoes falling in the wake of Bush’s state of the union.
- It seems to be bouncing around the rightward blogs that the very idea of an opposition party booing a president’s state-of-the-union is unprecedented. As Oliver Willis shows, not so much.
- I’m told George Bush made a strange point of emphasizing “frivolous asbestos claims” as an example of how “Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back” in the speech.
Curious. I would have thought, in a country that just had an election only slightly more fair and balanced than the one in Iraq, there might be better examples of how justice is distorted. In a country currently pouring untold billions into a black hole of a war* with no end in sight, there might be better examples of how our economy is held back.
But no one honestly expected Bush to use those reasons, of course. The question remains, however, where the hell did “frivolous asbestos claims” come from?
*that we started for trumped-up reasons.
