January 31, 2006

Appreciate Ya, Tom

For someone who does not read opinion columns, Pres. Bush sure did sound some Friedmanian tones tonight. Surely the lede in tomorrow's stories, Bush's proposals to wean America's dependence on foreign oil were really the closest thing to news in what ABC's Martha Raddatz termed a "cut and paste" speech comprised of well-known themes and positions.

Teeing up his Advanced Energy Initiative, the Prez declared in his address that "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world..."

Friedman's 1/27 NYT column titled "State of the Union": "On Tuesday President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address and map out priorities for his last three years. The direction in which America needs to go is obvious: toward energy independence."

But, alas, the real SOTU included no "Patriot Tax" of $2 dollars per-gallon of gasoline as it did in Friedmania. Oh, and it also did not end with an announcemnt that VP Cheney was stepping down.

Posted at 10:36 PM

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