(Updated with USA Today's Readers' Word Cloud) State of the Union Address Word Cloud: Jobs, America, Years

And People, Like, Congress. (Or Congress, Like, Families.)

Smallest words: manufacturing, growth, rate, states, agree, world.

That's all I can tolerate. From Zero Hedge:

President of the United States who has added more than $1 trillion in new debt every single year says,

"Let me repeat – nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime."

Sure.

This is what "GS Elevator Gossip" tweeted:

#SOTU #STFU
— GS Elevator Gossip (@GSElevator) February 13, 2013

William Banzai at Zero Hedge, "State of the Banana":

Tweet from Onion Politics (spoof network which becomes more real than reality by the day):

#SOTU fact check: American people do not actually deserve better

— Onion Politics (@OnionPolitics) February 13, 2013

And from USA Today, social media users' response to SOTU: Screwed.

(H/T blog reader wren)

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In-Your-Face SOTU: Obama Mocks TSA Pat-Downs

Or I should say he mocked those of us outraged by the TSA groping and molesting and harassment, which are all being done under HIS order.

"... it will be faster than flying – without the pat-down."

So the President of the United States is promoting high-speed rail so that the rest of us (remember, he is exempt) can go from place to place without being molested by the government. That's inspiring, isn't it?

The text was in the speech draft, so either he or his 20-something former campaign worker-turned speech writer actually had written it. As what? A joke?

Watch the video. For a moment or two, even the Dems in Congress weren't sure whether to laugh and applaud, which they eventually did. What's there to laugh? What's so funny? What am I missing?

This president's idea of being funny is so foreign to me that I've long concluded that he is indeed an alien, a space alien just like that former prime minister of Japan who babbled about a foreigner-friendly Japan when he couldn't even take decent care of the citizens.

For those of us with earth-bound humor, here's Jessie Ventura suing the TSA.

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Obama Hugs Timmy, and Everything Is Alright

Little 'Toinette, trying best not to look at her straight, says to Madame Du Barry, "There are so many people at Versailles today."

Madame Du Barry smiles a smile of victory, and the whole court erupts in cheer. "The Dauphine finally spoke to Madame Du Barry [Louis XV's official mistress]! All will be fine from now on!"

And so Obama hugs Timmy Geithner and all is well on the Imperial Court of Capitol Hill.

Capitol Hill Insiders Say Obama Hugging Geithner Changed Everything (John Carney, 2/1/2010 Business Insider)

"The end of Tim Geithner has itself come to an end.

"Sources on Capitol Hill say that Geithner's status was re-elevated last week when president Obama embraced him before the State of the Unions address.

"That is a 180 degree reversal in the perception of the Treasury Secretary's fate from just over a week ago. Back then people thought Geithner had basically been fired.

""When the president hugs you in front of every member of the US Senate and every member of the House, that's a signal that you still have the power," one Senate staffer told us.

"Others on Capitol Hill we spoke to agreed.

""It was a clear message that the perception from the Volcker announcement was wrong. Geithner is still in Obama's inner circle," another staffer said.

"The hug that changed the perception on Capitol Hill was preceded and followed by administration members talking to reporters and bloggers behind the scenes, saying the symbolism of the Volcker press conference had been misinterpreted. That message has now sunk in.

"At least in the eyes of many lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill, Geithner is back."

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