Via Tacitus I hear that Bush had a clumsy moment right at the end of his State of the Union address last night. Watch the video -- all I have right now is this long RealPlayer file from C-SPAN -- and fast-forward to 58:50 (right near the end). Watch W's arm as he goes to shake Dick Cheney's hand. Whack! There goes the water glass.
If we truly had a liberally biased media, that one clip would be playing over and over on today's cable shows, and Al Franken would be parodying it, and Paul Krugman would be opining that it demonstrates both Bush's unhinged approach to reality and his tendency to make messes and let others clean them up.
On more substantive issues, the Talking Dog posts an Andrew Sullivan article that he agrees with, and I'm surprised to find myself agreeing with part of it too...
[T]he president revealed his deep suspicion of human freedom. Yes, he says he supports it. But in every instance--even charitable and religious institutions--he believes that government needs to get involved. He wants to maintain the Patriot Act intact; he wants to extend the war on drugs to steroids; he wants to prevent gay couples from having the ability to form their own families and be treated equally under the law.
A deep suspicion of human freedom. That sounds about right. Fits right in there with his method of recovering from drugs, and his desire to spread "democracy" by force, and his ridiculous obsession with denying gays the benefits of marriage. Not to mention the way he goes about his domestic agenda: by keeping the country in a state of constant war.