We Don't Need No Stinkin' State of The Union

I wonder if President Obama is as weary and unenthused about giving his State of The Union address as we are in hearing it? He has to know what his poll numbers show. Does he have any idea that the resonance of his voice no longer holds the sway as it did four years ago, even two years ago? He will always be able to depend on the beltway bamboozlers in his party to applaud at the appropriate times in the speech, but does he wonder if the rank and file at home are watching reruns of Modern Family instead of him? Does he even care? Does he just retreat back to the oval office and check off the box and say, “Another one down, two more to go.”

I think it would be better for everyone if he just mailed it in. There is no requirement for the President to actually show up and give a speech. All he has to do is report. You know, he could just send a short note with the old Saturday Night Live-like statement, “I’m still the President and you’re not.” I think that would kind of sum up his attitude about Congress and the American public, anyway. I mean, if he is already threatening to use his executive power to do what he wants, why make a silly little speech that interrupts the nightly programming? Its one thing to lie through your teeth about keeping your personal medical professionals but its entirely different to preempt television when we are trying to forget all of the swill-trumpeting pontification that oozes from that sinkhole called Washington.

And if we take it a step further, there is no real reason for the President to even send the note. He can just claim that he did and Congress must have misplaced it. It only makes sense. If nobody cared to read the entire Obamacare law that affected an entire nation, how could they be expected to keep track of one little report? The mainstream media will carry the water for the President and insist that it is a Republican ploy to embarrass the President. Congress will of course apologize, emphasizing how they must get past this hurdle and back to the business of serving the people and the President can depart for that next well-earned vacation.