So I didn’t get a chance to actually watch it until last night. I had it DVR’d but was just way too busy to watch it. What I wish I would have done was pulled open a bottle to take a shot every time Bush said “terror” or “evil” or “terrorists”. Yeah I would have gotten plastered quickly. Anyway, after fast forwarding through the boring stuff and laughing at the guy who wouldn’t sit down. The things that stuck out were a) he wants to send more troops. b) he wants to give worker passes to immigrants that are illegal. c) he wants to tax health insurance.

So on point (a) I’m not so certain about. Seriously, we have a lot of troops deployed. How long are we looking to keep them deployed? I think we should look at the cost feasibility of just installing cameras and sentry guns like in Team Fortress Classic so when someone walks by a 50mm sentry guns pumps them full of holes. I think that would be a great way to slow down the whole insurgency. Next we should look seriously think about Prozium. If you’ve ever watched the movie Equilibrium then you know what I’m talking about: To take away the emotion from everyone so they only can use logic. Most likely that would resolve all issues in the Middle East in a week.

Point (b) makes more sense. Lets give anyone that wants to come into the country a temporary workers visa and make them pay taxes. My beef has always been that we have leeches that come in, make money, use school systems, use welfare, use all of the social programs that we have in place for leeches, but they don’t contribute anything. You give them a legal status, you make them pay taxes and boom, suddenly we have money to resolve a lot of issues and strengthen the security so that the few illegals that still want to be under the wire are taken care of(read terminated). Oh, and motion sensor sentry guns mounted on 18′ razor fence is a plus too.

Point (c) the last and final point, I’m not certain of, how will this benefit me? (me me me) I mean sure rising healthcare is expensive for people that don’t have insurance at all. Its expensive for anyone though. My share, if I was to add on someone like a spouse, quadruples in cost. But in doing this will we start to see small businesses that have a hard enough time paying for healthcare for its employees, not offer healthcare at all? Instead electing to give its employees higher salaries and turning them to fend for themselves? And if that happens are we to being looking toward the government to universalize healthcare like Canada and Europe? To me the cons outweigh the pros - mostly the cost and the whole waiting list thing. Suddenly you have to wait to see your regular doctor. Or you’re a chick that wants to have a quick surgery to get bigger tits, you’ll have to wait 2 years. Then again, good things come to those who wait. I guess what I’m saying is that Universal Healthcase isn’t all that its cracked up to be. It just allows whomever to get free healthcare at the cost of the people who are working their tales off. Ask the people in Tennessee who are working middle class families how they feel about it. They are the hardest hit, and suffer the most from the change.

The resignation letter can be seen here. I suppose it’s pretty bad for the nominee when even Bush’s supporters were critical of this nomination.

Personally, I’m pretty much okay with this. I’m a Republican and all but Miers has never been a judge, and I would want a Supreme Court Justice to have- oh, I dunno- SOME experience on the bench before moving up to the highest court in the land. The nomination never sat easy with me, and I’d argue there are several qualified candidates for nomination.

Out.