Another thing about the SOTU

Barba makes a good point in the comments to the post below - there's little environmental concern in the oil addiction claim.

But another point. You know, this is basically it for Bush. He has two more SOTUs and then he's outta there. This was his opportunity to do something, right or wrong. Reading some of the analyses (see this one in the Baltimore Sun), it appears he made no one - Republicans or Democrats - terribly happy. What's striking is that contrary to his aggressive cashing-in-his-mandate speech last year, this one suggests he took that cash and lost it at the blackjack tables.

He had nothing to offer, no ideas, except slight tweaks to mistakes he has made throughout his presidency. But generally it was a continuation of an ideology that's increasingly at odds with the times. This was the official announcement of the lame duck presidency.