The State Of The Union Is Not Good

I wish Jay Nordlinger would post to NRO's The Corner, rather than putting all of his Impromptus in a column, because then I could just link to the stuff I find amusing rather than having to cite it. But since he won't do it that way, here's some stuff from today's column that I liked:

What was the most offensive part of Gary Locke�s speech � his �Democratic Response� on Tuesday night? It�s hard to choose, but I nominate: �while Osama bin Laden runs free.�

Now, I know that the uncertainty about bin Laden is a big Democratic talking point, a rare war point to score against Bush, but runs free? My goodness. If he is alive, I would say he�s pretty well cooped up, not runnin� free.

But will anyone in the Big Press call Locke and the Dems on this? Are you crazy?

I'm still amazed they put Locke on in the first place. The more he talked, the more he seemed to shrink. Anyway, more Nordlinger:

Talk about Not Getting It (and, no, I don�t mean that dirtily, for once): As she pooh-poohed George Bush�s case for war, Nancy Pelosi said, �I have seen nothing that connects Saddam Hussein to September 11.� She is blissfully, or willfully, unaware of the new challenges we face, countering the world�s Islamic terrorists and their state supporters � beginning with Saddam. In this, she�s perfectly representative of the party she leads in the House. Really, she might as well be French � or German. But not Italian, stand-up as Silvio has been.

Yep. And finally, this funny from a previous column:

My favorite line from any SotU was uttered by Gerald R. Ford, in 1975: �The state of the Union is not good.� Sometimes, when I�m going through a particularly rough patch, and a friend says, �How are you, Jay?,� I�ll answer, �The state of the Union is not good� � in honor of GRF, the only president from my home state of Michigan.

I'm going to have to start using that line.

[Posted at 21:47 CST on 01/30/03] [Link]