SOTU: It feels like a high school reunion

Posted: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:29 PM by Hardball

By Joe Scarborough

Walking on the floor of Congress on the night of the President’s State of the Union is like nothing in American politics. Looking around now I see the top presidential contenders for 2008, the Chief Justice of the United States, the first woman Speaker in US history and scores of old friends.

It feels like a high school reunion with very powerful classmates that stuck around the campus for another five years or so.

Republicans are in a surly mood and for good reason. The president they will hear tonight has put them in the minority for the foreseeable future and that is bad news for House members. But one senator told me he liked his new status.

“The Senate rules are so screwed up that we have more power in the minority than when we were in power.”

And so it goes in Washington’s screwed up world.

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Okay, Here's The Deal: Bush & the neocons can keep the dead Saddam, the 3100 dead American soldiers, the 25,000 seriously wounded/permanently scarred and disfigured U.S. soldiers, the 100,000 dead Iraqis, the billions of dollars in damage to Iraq, the trillion dollar final tab on this puppy, the two-tone Stairmaster and what's behind door number three................ and I'll keep the peace, handle the living Saddam, save 3100 American soldiers' lives from premature death and turn back the clock for 25,000 seriously wounded American soldiers, not to mention save the lives of over 100,000 Iraqis and a trillion U.S. tax dollars......and oh, did I tell you? Keep the "terrorists" out of Iraq. (as u like 2 say) Saddam didn't play that. Under Saddam's iron fist, Sunnis and Shia lived side by side in peace - now they're killing each other, exacting wholesale ethnic cleansing en masse. Guess who's left OUT of this equation? Cheney's profits. Bush's legacy. Neocon pipedreams. Capice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbpYER6jglE .r o n

Ron Corvus Dallas, Tejas (Sent Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:42 PM)

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