seen President Bush give.  It wasn't the usual rah, rah condensed into jingoism.  Completely absent was there were gaffs with the word nuclear and the speech wasn't accompanied by a smirk.  BTW, where was Senator Kennedy--his hair is a magnet for TV cameras...didn't see him anywhere in the senate?

BUT ...

My ears perked up when he put emphasis on congress passing the Line Item Veto!  He surely knows it was ruled unconstitutional in 1997.  The ruling was lead by none other than Senator Robert Byrd!  :)  There is some unfinished business there.  "Hello Justice Alito"!!!

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The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on April 9, 1996 and was immediately challenged in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by a group of six senators, first among whom was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), where it was declared unconstitutional by District Judge Harry Jackson, a Reagan appointee, on April 10, 1997.

The case was subsequently remanded by the Supreme Court of the United States with instructions to dismiss on the grounds that the senators had not suffered sufficient injury to press charges under Article III of the United States Constitution. The case, Raines v. Byrd, was handed down on June 26, 1997, and did not include a judgement on the constitutional grounds of the law.

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And the other thing I noticed was he somehow thought there was such as thing as 'clean burning coal!' The hydrogen part was admirable, but the burning coal definitely is NOT!

should be, "there were no gaffs"

We'll kick the oil habit right after we land some dudes on Mars! Awesome!

http://www.agonist.org/comments/2006/1/31/182643/389/0/post#here

Posted on Tue, Jan. 31, 2006

CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Bush set energy self-sufficiency goals Tuesday night that would still leave the country vulnerable to unstable oil sources. He also declared he is helping more people get health care, despite a rising number of uninsured.

Whether promoting a plan to "save Social Security" or describing Iraqi security forces as "increasingly capable of defeating the enemy," Bush skipped over some complex realities in his State of the Union speech.

Washington | January 31

AP - Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was taken into custody by police in the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush's State of the Union address.

Police escorted Sheehan from the visitors' gallery above the House chamber after she caused a disruption, said a Capitol Police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the incident were sketchy.

Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., had invited Sheehan to the address as her guest.

``I'm proud that Cindy's my guest tonight,'' Woolsey said in an interview before the speech. ``She has made a difference in the debate to bring our troops home from Iraq.''

Woolsey offered Sheehan a ticket to the speech - Gallery 5, seat 7, row A - earlier Tuesday while Sheehan was attending an ``alternative state of the union'' press conference by CODEPINK, a group promoting the end of the Iraq war.

Sheehan was arrested in September with about 300 other anti-war activists in front of the White House after a weekend of protests against the war in Iraq. In August, she spent 26 days camped near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was spending a working vacation.

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according to www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/ap/2006/01/31/ap2489817.html

" In each year of his presidency, Bush has called for less dependence on foreign oil sources."

As if he didn't have anything to do with it!  And the result of Bush's crusade against foreign oil?  Look at this: http://photos1.blogger.com/img/243/2888/640/oilsource.jpg