Kowabunga

The Minnesota GOP hosted a State of the Union Address party at party headquarters Tuesday nigtht, offering pizza and soft drinks to all attendees. Some forty Minnesotans (including myself) took them up on the offer. Surprisingly, I was not the farthest traveller. That honor belongs to the guy who came in from Worthington (?), near the Iowa and South Dakota borders. Talk about a long drive.

Gina at the GOP HQ hooked up a television to a screen projector, so that we would have a large screen TV to watch, and this plan worked well.

Pizza arrived shortly before the president arrived in the halls of Congress.

I have never watched the State of the Union Address live before, only catching sound bites after the fact. I am glad I watched this one.

President Bush opened by recognizing the passing of Coretta Scott King, wife of the great Martin Luther King, and her accomplishments. A highly appropriate tribute to a fine woman.

He then moved on to the meat of the address, hitting on all of the most important issues of the past year that are still unresolved, and moving on to the issues that will carry importance over the next few years.

For a transcript of the address, go to FoxNews.com.

High points included the Global War on Terror and the use of NSA spying on international calls invlolving known terrorists, border security, health care reform, energy reform including more attention to alternative fuels such as ethanol and nuclear energy (something I wish he had elaborated on), the economy, which has had sone four years of uninterrupted growth, tax reform and social security.

The Democrats winced.

Time to head to work.