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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Good speech, but ditch the laundry list
Did not see the President's speech, but I did read it. Pretty nice, but too long. Which could be said of just about every State of the Union.
I understand that the laundry list has become a fundamental part of the SOTU, but I don't see why. More to the point, I don't see why a guy like Bush couldn't break with tradition and crown his rhetoric about trimming government with a matched trimming of the address.
Let's face it, Bush is at his best when he's talking big picture, earth-shaking stuff. If he'd stuck to 1) the changing world, 2) Social Security in transition and 3) America's committment to freedom in the world, it would have been even better. It would have been best, of course, if he'd just done the 3rd part.
But that's the word from a libertarian hawk. I'd much rather hear about how we're changing the world than about the great things government is doing for us. But someone must like the laundry list. I just can't imagine who.
Presumably, there are newspaper editorialists who'll write off the big stuff if there's no plug for solar energy. Otherwise, I can't see the point of the laundry list.
Laundry list fans, whoever you are, I hope you enjoyed. I'm just glad a little substance followed.
posted by gbarto at 10:23 PM
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