ROTR – State of the Union Address (from Justin Higgins)

Artist: Justin Higgins

Title: StateoftheUnion

Album: ROTR

Year: 2008

Length: 5:19 minutes (4.87 MB)

Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

TRANSCRIPT: Good evening. First off, I’d like to apologize, because I have a bit of a sore throat. I hope, however, that doesn’t prevent you from listening to this very important message. A lot has happened in this past year, and a lot can happen in the following year. We have a lot of work to do.

In the past year, the Democrat Congress has failed us in many ways. They have failed to provide adequate and timely support for our armed forces, they have failed to acknowledge the successes being made under General Petraeus in Iraq, and they have failed to apply appropriate pressure to radical regimes like Iran and Syria. Those are just their national security shortfalls. The Democrat Congress has also tried to pass massive tax increases, has tried to ram down our throats a stepping stone to socialized medicine, and has tried to force upon America’s industries regulations that would further damage our effectiveness in the global market.

The Republicans though, have failed too. We have failed as a party to articulate our ideas to the American people, to defend our ideology against the scorned and hateful attacks from the left, and we have failed in advancing an agenda despite the obstructionists in the Majority. We have failed the American people by not fighting tooth and nail for every vote, every mind, and every voice. All of this will change in the coming year.

Allow me to step into some imaginary shoes here, the shoes of a real Conservative President. No insult to our Commander-in-Chief, who I support very adamantly, but I am talking about an anti-amnesty, anti-pork, let’s play hardball Conservative. I’m talking about a man with twice Reagan’s charm and twice Bush’s willpower. I’m talking about a man mysteriously absent from this election cycle. I’m talking about what could be.

Let me first address some domestic issues.