I've not drank but I still can't sleep.

The comments gave some relief but the feeling of disgust still lingers heavily...

The jumping up and down with frowns and fake smiles was unbearable.

The factual and facial misery reflected so vividly when the fake grins goes away is pathetic to eyewitness.

Watching can make one feel defiled?

Was it fake 'orgasmic'...

The event bastardised the WORD,or something happened without words...to describe...O maybe, Just Forget it?

Do politicians express a meaningful "Oooohhaaauha Gaaaoooouuuudddd...gaads...woooooow.whooooo.

guuuoooaddds?" in their privacy...?...if they ever 'do it'...The flakiness! funky.

I don't even know how to convey my sense of disgust.

It is more blatant betrayal. The yipe about soldiers ? did get to me but, the

entire phoniness that hurts us all ` literally has me nauseated. boohoo.

~

If making love is described as getting water up your nose the first time...(FORGET IT)...I've sat here wanting to just pretend I did NOT witness the CLAP fest and forget it. I want to have No comment, and regret what bad taste 'scribble' I've already recorded...But I agree we must speak!

Was it a fake orgasm by a horde of Capital Hill DC whores?

a fake whoopee...

I think they deserve to drown?

The politico's went down to the Potomac River and showed off their cannon balls splashes, belly flops, and they drank ditch water.

However, they forgot,

to pull up the zipper.

They did back flips.

The whore crew did jackknives, swans, full-double-gainers, tucks, and the layouts.

What is really so sad,

*No Life Guard on Duty.

"it's hard to imagine any Republicans ever voting in favor of an extension since Bush has vowed to veto it"

For me, it's hard to imagine any Republicans still caring what Bush wants at this point. He's dragging them to the bottom, but there's no law that says they have to go with him. But apparently, they're happy to go along.

I'm still wiping up the sprayed gin... That little liveblog y'all put on so far exceeded, in entertainment value, the event it was meant to cover that in a moment of mental abstraction I was almost glad to have Bush as preznit. Cattle prods, porcelain gods, dental exams, shotguns.... how can something so false, dreadful, and heart-rendingly depressing be so pants-wettingly, gasping-for-breath, hi-f*cking-larious?

Minute by minute, without the shame and suffering of seeing that face and hearing that voice, I had the best SOTU experience ever, conveniently postponed to accomodate a prior engagement. I felt as though a whole truckload of rotten vegetables had splattered, gloriously, across the faces of each Republician, while the dimwit in chief had literally been rendered nary but a fetid pyramid of semi-ripe compost, fit to have the Road Runner stop by and stick a sign on top, "Decider." Beep beep.

Sounds like nobody got hurt, either. My legal team, on loan from the telecoms, said I should mention mattresses, and I'm glad I did.

You couldn't have performed so brilliantly with concussions, after all.

The Cato Institute still calls itself a "libertarian think tank" and that is false advertising. Consider Roger Pilon's defense, in the Wall Street Journal, of Bush's "Protect America Act."

see:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9119

On the other hand, we have Judge Andrew Napolitano in his book 'A Nation of Sheep' (p. 175) tells us what real freedom lovers should know:

"As I write this, Congress has just voted . . . to change the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) so as to purport to give the president the legal authority to spy on Americans by listening to our telephone conversations and monitoring our computer keystrokes when we communicate with persons outside the United States, without a warrant issued by a judge . . . . I wrote above 'purport to give' because Congress lacks the authority to enable the president to spy on Americans without a search warrant. The Constitution prohibits such behavior, and Congress can not change the Constitution. Period."

"The Fourth Amendment was written because the Founders were sick and tired of British soldiers writing their own search warrants as a pretext for coming onto the colonists' property, even when there was no demonstrable evidence of criminal activity . . ."

"The Fourth Amendment puts a neutral judge between the government and its target . . . . The Constitution requires the government to demonstrate probable cause of a crime before a judge can authorize unleashing the government's use of force. The Fourth Amendment regulates that monopoly. It is Fourth Amendment protections that have saved us and all past generations of Americans from the knock on the door in the middle of the night."

Those who support the totalitarian "Protect America Act," says Judge Napolitano, are simply corrupted by power, as Lord Acton warned. They do not seek power "to liberate or to preserve freedom, but for the internal gratification that its exercise affords . . ."

Cato is full of power worshipers; beware.

The Cato Institute still calls itself a "libertarian think tank" and that is false advertising. Consider Roger Pilon's defense, in the Wall Street Journal, of Bush's "Protect America Act."

Pilon is a Minority of One at Cato. All of them are vigorously opposoed to virtually every Bush expansion of power. He is the only one who favors it.

When I spoke there last year, he asked an extremely hostile question -- in an extremely hostile tone -- because he was upset that I had criticized John Yoo. He does not speak for Cato at all, particularly on issues of executive power. Beginning with 9/11, Cato has been one of the most steadfast and unapologetic defenders of Constitutional limits on presidential power and war-making.

GG: " ... Beginning with 9/11, Cato has been one of the most steadfast and unapologetic defenders of Constitutional limits on presidential power and war-making."

Then he needs to go.

It is like having the head of the KKK give the keynote speech at the Democratic Party's national convention; it paints a bad picture. Remember, his words were in the NYT, that "newspaper of record".

I remember that voice. Glenn did a slight fidget. GG remained calm and slowly loosened the tie. The tones of people are what I remember.

Your could quell a disordered riot in the streets, says a proverb. The Cato questioner was belligerent and embarrassing brutal chaos.

It says in maxim books the lies are worst than spreading arsonist fires.

The nasty tone Cato guy was the one who was sharpening the axe at the outdoor tree stump chop block?

He was the one who was wearing a mink coat and carried a pink umbrella on a sunny day?

He was the feller-critter in the lobby wearing black leather pants and eating marshmallow and yellow bannana sandwiches without crust, packed for his lunch by his mommy? He then popped the lunch bag and we were startled thinking the bang-pop was a terroist attack? I jumped into the lobby bamboo.

You gave autographs like George Bush and Hulk Hogan does.

Was he the Cato overweight man taking two seats and kept complaining to his courteous staff for not laundering his tight Cato Hooded Sweat Shirt?

- He was to the front left of me. Glenn remained calm, courteous, and re-groomed himself after the slobber mumbled cheap shot 'kiss'...

The Cato MC was great. He must have been wanting to say, "Glenn you may now kiss your bride?" apologies.

I could not resist. The Cato MC apologized at the lunch to me for ignoring my waving raised hand. At one 'annoyed' part of the serious-event, I chopped @ the bit to speak.

I later thought, No, Cato MC? "Thanks for ignoring me."

If not...I may not be here at UT? I'd be renditioned to Serbia chopping wood with a dull axe for GWB's Oval Office fireplace

pork-roast and beans eve parties.

* Bye the way ~ The Cato Visit in DC and afterward free meal was a excellent experience. The comment Here from me in Not a criticism of the Cato Institute. I am not familiar with the Institute or what policy writers @ Cato do...

There were some cute and handsome youth. I was in envy to be youthful and in pursuit of knowledge. If I was young I'd pledge to esteem those who are in the pursuit of moments of contemporary truth.* The Truth. Respect. Reverence.