There are new rules for the State of the Union drinking game for 2006. This year, instead of hoisting a cool one or sipping a mickey every time Dear Leader mutters one of his catch phrases like “terrist survayance program” or “axis of evil,” follow these simple rules:

At 6PM PST, turn off your television and […]

Soft answers to hard questions: A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey uncovers the concerns the public wants addressed by the president in his State of the Union address tonight. The survey provided a list of goals, but respondents were told that only one could be achieved in the next year. Here’s what they picked:

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Outing: This is intriguing. Mike Rogers at BlogActive posted this letter to a closeted senator today — and it is not Sen. Barbara Mikluski, the Maryland Democrat:
Mr. Senator:
Tomorrow you will be faced with a vote that may have the longest aftereffects of any other you have cast in your Senate career.
Tomorrow you will decide […]

Scientific confirmation: At a conference in Southern California last week sociologists and psychologists reported on several studies that show something many of us have long suspected: Republicans — especially strong supporters of George Bush — are implicitly biased against black people,.
Another study … explored relationships between racial bias and political affiliation by analyzing […]

Jan. 31, 2006 Final Senate Vote on Alito, according to C-Span:

Republicans Vote

Alexander (TN) Y
Allard (CO) Y
Allen (VA) Y
Bennett (UT) Y
Bond (MO) Y
Brownback (KS) Y […]

A friend in Sweden sent us this graphic. It strikes us as a pretty accurate interpretation of how the rest of the world thinks the United States views the rest of the world.
Leave a comment and tell us what you think.

Lies and damned lies: Richard Viguerie, one of our least favorite rabid conservatives, has posted another survey on his Conservative HQ site. He did it last fall, and we at Pensito Review encouraged our courageous readers to take the survey and answer the questions in a way that would skew the results. Here’s your chance […]

Check it out: General Wesley Clark (Ret.) is heading a PAC to elect veterans of the current conflicts who are running as Democrats in 2006. With the slogan, “Support the Troops, Send Them to Congress!” he has launched IAVA, the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America PAC.
Of course the vast majority of the vets campaigning […]

Empty words: Besides a lengthy dose of fake Texas twang and rhetorical rope tricks to try and justify the failures of his administration, it seems few real Americans are expecting much from the State of the Union address tomorrow night:
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted […]