And now the Democrat's response...hey wait! Where are you going?

Many bloggers out there decided to do a live blogging of the President's State of the Union last night. I vouched against it, not because it's not a novel idea, which it is, but because I find it to be a tad egotistical. After all that night, whether we liked it or not, was about the President, not about us and our opinions, and we had plenty of time afterwards to chop the whole speech to pieces, which is exactly what I did in my last post. Now I turn my sights on the Democrats.

Frankly I was disappointed. The first disappointment was that Governor Timothy M. Kaine was tapped to give the response in the first place. I understand the reason behind the DNC choosing the young Governor, after all he won in a Republican stronghold (Virginia), and he's known as this man of 'values' and strong religious faith. However this wasn't a tent revival sermon, and the man was as stiff as iron. If Lex Luthor was attaching Metropolis you wouldn't send Aquaman after him would you? No! You'd send Superman (Obama) or Wonderwoman (Hillary)! Instead they send us the guy who, if you listened hard enough, caused the entire nation to collectively grunt "Who the hell is this?"

So we're given this guy who is obviously reading off a teleprompter, and what he's reading is equally as stiff, wooden and non-threatening. This whole production seems to have been written before the 2004 election and if this is what the Democrats are planning for 2006 then we're in for another sensational failure. They offered no new solutions for problems, and only criticized the President in the most unintimidating fashion possible. Just take a look that this insightful tidbit:

"Our federal government should serve the American people. But that mission is frustrated by this administration's poor choices and bad management."

Ok, sure I can get behind that, but who couldn't? This is the foundation for a wedding cake that was left unmade. Then he kept getting into how bipartisan cooperation worked in Virginia. Great, but with all due respect to my brothers in Virginia--why should anyone else care? We're talking about the Federal government not the state government. And who the hell told him to use the old Kerry "We can do better line?" It didn't work for him, so why would it work for you? It's like Jesse Ventura in Predator--he couldn't beat Rocky, so what the hell makes you believe he's going to do anything less than die against a seven foot tall alien?!?!

I hate to be overly critical of my own party, but if Bush paraded out the neo-con hits during his speech, then the Democrats marched out its own all-star squad, featuring Captain Vague, Sergeant No-solution, and Private Meek. Funny how when the President's poll numbers drop they move from Politics-done-badly, to Politics-as-usual, but when the Democrats do anything they move to Politics-as-usual and hit cruise control. We Democrats are seriously praying that they take their rhetoric in for an overhaul, before the whole party completely stalls.