Just ignore those pesky economic statistics, the flotilla of broken campaign promises and the roiling state of the world. Last night, the show’s co-hosts took to Twitter to ramp up their Obama defense during the State of the Union speech.

Caution: the language is pretty salty, although, to be fair, some of the Tweets are funny. Here’s just a short sample of what the pair fired off last night during Obama’s speech:

The new series features two comedians of color (both Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are biracial) in a comedy genre with a dearth of diversity – “In Living Color” being a bold exception. So far, they’re using their unique comedy pulpit to promote Obama, not deconstruct him as their fellow comics have done to other leaders for generations.

“Key & Peele” debuts on Comedy Central Jan. 31.

See, to me, the speech came and went like one of those “serious” high school assemblies: you know, when a teacher finds out about a student defacing a locker with unicorn stickers, she decides we all need to sit in a humid gym for an hour and be told “it’s okay to be different.”

But in case you missed the speech, here’s my summary:

“We face challenges, IT’S NOT MY FAULT – but that’s what makes us great.”

Try that on a losing football team.

The point is, even though he never mentioned GWB, he more than alluded to the poor guy, constantly reminding us how Obie inherited this mess. Sorry dude, it’s been a year – it’s your mess now, and you’re making it messier.

Obama also spent a lot of time blaming his problems on vile partisanship. But how can it be partisanship, when one party rules everything? Mr. President, these are your people. The Republicans eat Thanksgiving dinner in the kitchen. Don’t blame them. If anything, real partisanship would make you a stronger President.

Anyway, here are some other thoughts from yours truly (i.e., me)…

*I don’t care how cool the president is, watching members of Congress scrambling for autographs afterwards seems a tad cheesy. It’s not like he’s Erik Estrada. No one is like Erik Estrada.

* An hour into speech, “security” finally makes a cameo. Summary: stop making it an issue, already.

*Apparently if you become a public servant, you will be able to dump your student loans. This is not what I would call a rallying cry for a generation.

*I’m glad Joe got his whitening strips back. It helped deflect the shine off his forehead.

*Female Democrats dress like real estate agents. It made me wonder, do they also have their pictures on their business cards? It might be a nice touch.

But, here’s what drives me batty like a big fat bat.

Check out this part of Obama’s speech:

“From the day I took office, I’ve been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious, such an effort would be too contentious. I’ve been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold? ”

Okay: Obama keeps bringing up these mysterious people who keep telling him what to do and what not to do. Which begs the question: Who’s he talking to who keeps giving him this great advice that he keeps ignoring? It seems to me, If he had listened to them, we’d all be better off.

But that’s just me. Not you. Be thankful for that.

Tonight we’ve got comedian Jamie Lissow! the great actor from Avatar, Joel David Moore, and radio talk show host Mary Walter!

Plus: Ambassador John Bolton!

In short, China is a top-tier strategic threat to the United States, and its ideology of predatory state mercantilism constitutes one of the greatest challenges to America’s new Global Generation – like the danger posed by the Soviet Union to the Greatest Generation.

Wake up. Do not let our leadership sweep this under the rug:

But the Obama administration seems terrified of the implications of Google’s behavior. Google reportedly consulted the White House before acting, but the most the Obama people could say was that the events were “troubling,” or “raise serious concerns” or that they want to encourage China “to work with Google.

The administration’s timidity in facing the reality of China’s new superpower status was highlighted in October when the Obama White House directed the Intelligence Community to downgrade China to a Priority 2 intelligence target. This would be the first time in postwar history that China has ever been anything but a top-tier intelligence priority. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told Bill Gertz of The Washington Times last week, “China should be at the top of the priority list, not moving down.”

This past November I was in Michigan filming when I had dinner with my friends’ Congressman Thaddeus McCotter from Michigan and Philippe Martinez (Producer and Director). I think McCotter is one of the special jewels in our government and I hope that  at some point he runs for national office, perhaps for the White House. He is not what one would call Project Runway material, but his humor and intellect are stunning, and he can stroll the catwalk with the best of them. Anyway back to the dinner…

Aside from the usual humor and repartee a couple of Rat Packers can conjure at a cigar bar, the conversation turned to politics — China, in particular . What I learned then was quite frightening, and I had thought of writing about it but decided not to because it wouldn’t get any traction. After all, I’m not an expert in the field. Well, my friends, Thaddeus is. And he and another gentleman wrote this fantastic article that all must read. Please send it to your friends and remember: One if by land — two if by sea — three if by cyber. 

We live in a very different world. Let’s see if President Obama addresses this in tonight’s State of the Union

–Robert Davi

Like I always do, no matter who’s in office, I tuned to the President’s State of the Union address last night. I love the event and look forward to it. The SOTU is one of the President’s most important speeches, and I listen carefully to what he says because his words aren’t chosen lightly. The speech is written, re-written, scrutinized and re-written again until it has the right effect — and when President Obama told the story of Florida businessman Leonard Abess who retired after making millions and then proceeded to hand out most of a $60 million bonus to co-workers, even those long since retired — I knew this was unlike any SOTU that had come before and that President Obama and his team are likely to be looking for work in 4 years.

Here’s the exact quote:

I think about Leonard Abess, the bank president from Miami who reportedly cashed out of his company, took a $60 million bonus, and gave it out to all 399 people who worked for him, plus another 72 who used to work for him.  He didn’t tell anyone, but when the local newspaper found out, he simply said, ”I knew some of these people since I was 7 years old.  I didn’t feel right getting the money myself.”

Never mind that Mr. Abess didn’t need government prodding to initiate his generosity or the fact that he was able to make all that money over a career dominated by conservative economic policies, what the President was really saying is that the government wants to emulate this generosity with your tax dollars. A clear call to socialism that shouldn’t be taken lightly. So far this administration has repeatedly made political passive-aggressive statements against capitalism like this, and it’s not going unnoticed by the silent majority.

Another part of the speech that stuck out was the President telling those American’s who annually make $250K or less, that they will not see a tax increase. I envisioned millions of couples turning to one another, “It’s a good thing you didn’t get that big promotion hon.” ”Don’t worry babe I’ll make just enough to keep us under the magic number.” The way President Obama said “quarter of a million dollars” sure made it sound like a lot of money, but in reality it’s not and this is an incentive is to not make money.

The message is clear: The State knows how much money is enough and is better at giving it away than you are. And this is the difference between American Socialists and the center-right. We are the most generous  people on the planet and give more to charities worldwide than any other country. We have never needed government intervention in the charity department before, so why start now? 

Here’s what I think is really going on, all summed up in a brilliant quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton: “Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.”

Indeed.

I am no genius.  I’m a pretty average, normal guy…but a guy who has been paying attention.  I remember the past, as it helps me extrapolate into the future and make better decisions for myself and my family.  Avoid the pitfalls.  Swerve around the danger.  I don’t doubt President Obama is a smart man, loves his family and truly wants what he considers to be the best for America.

But obviously, he hasn’t been paying attention.

The President said today, following up on his speech before the joint session of Congress: “…because we know that business, not government, is the engine of growth in this country.  It is entrepreneurship and industry that are the well-springs of an economy that has been the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history.” 

Huh?  Did these words actually emanate from the mouth of one Barrack Obama today?  One week after he signed a bill that evidences a completely opposite point of view?  “Business, not government, is the engine of growth”??  Then why, may I ask, are we not letting business grow, instead of government? 

Wow, I’m jolted into a major communication disconnect.  Whiplash neck spasms in tag team Wrestlemania, C-6 and C-7 locked in a smackdown.  Calls are going out to my chiropractor and my accountant, in that order. 

The President’s words today sound awfully familiar; don’t they to you? The President almost sounded like …Ronald Reagan for a second.  Almost sounds like his statement was cut-and-pasted from a previous Reagan speech.  But after last light, RR must be rolling over in his grave.  And President Bush doesn’t get a pass.  As was pounded in last night, the Obama administration ‘inherited’ this deficit, this debt, this crisis. (Nevermind the whole Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae fiasco and the Democrat’s mishandling that lead to the mortgage meltdown…are you listening Dodd, Frank, and Pelosi?)  President Bush acted like no Conservative I’ve ever known when he okay’ed the TARP legislation.  And by the way…where is that $700B and why did it not accomplish what it was supposed to?  So here’s a bent twist to syllogistic reasoning (If A equals B and B equals C, then A equals C):   Now we have, If A equals B and B equals C, then O equals S, unless M doesn’t do what we want it to, and we have to tap G to T the R and then ZZ equals Top. 

So problem solved — Let’s throw more money at the problem, smile and declare it a Success.   I feel good now.

The truth is often found in the simplest of answers:  Socialism does not work.  Scream it from the rooftops to all the dumbed down voters who didn’t pay attention to world events the past 50 years.

But how does Obama’s Conservative words square with his recent actions?  Does it sound to you like he truly believes that “business, not government, is the engine of growth in this country”?   Oh, wait – I forgot to translate the statement.   Sorry, my bad.  I, being a formal college-indoctrinated liberal, actually speak fluent Lefty.  And since you, the reader, deserve the truth, I shall now provide for you that valuable service.

“…business, not government, is the engine of growth in this country.”  Translation:  “Business is a slave of my newly re-imagined government.  Yes, it is the engine, and yes I will have my hands firmly on the steering wheel, it will go when I stomp the accelerator and not before, and it will be fueled by the incredible debt I am now piling onto your future generations.”

And moving on to the rest:  “…it is entrepreneurship and industry that are the well-springs of an economy that has been the greatest force of prosperity in human history”.  Translation:  While all that sounds really neat and noble and all that…what I really mean to do is shackle entrepreneurship and industry with carefully tightened regulation, restriction, taxation, marching orders, and constraints, forcing business and industry to produce products nobody wants to buy but that I think we really, really need to make, in order to save the planet for the children and for working families…until innovation is frustrated, incentive is exhausted, and once and for all, the beast that is Capitalism is sucked completely dry.”

Any questions?

I mean… What sort of flim-flam, talking-out-of-both-sides-of-his-mouth, snake-oil salesman, con artist are we dealing with here?  And I thought Bill Clinton was slick!

And the sums involved!  Can any of us actually contemplate how much a trillion dollars is?  Sure, we say, flippantly – it’s a thousand billion.  Big deal.  But really, it’s a number so big, we can’t even picture it.  Grains of sand on the beach, number of stars in the sky type of thing.  A few hundred million we can maybe picture.  But a trillion or two, or three?  It ceases to hold any meaning to us.

So he’s able to slip that on to our tab.  Megamyopia – it’s so big we can’t even see it.

But!  Tell ya what I’m gonna do…come closer little lady, that’s right, step right up, here’s what I’m gonna do.  If you act today, I am including in your purchase of Dr. Barry’s Magic Elixir Stimulus Package, an absolute free no-cost-to-you TAX REBATE!  No, don’t look over there behind that curtain, look here, see, it’s MONEY!  Free MONEY!  Just don’t save any of it, SPEND IT NOW, hurry, run off and spend all of your fee money!

I got a headache.

 There it is.  To lighten the sting, to lessen the blow, we get a payoff.  Tax breaks for everyone earning less than $250K.   And why that arbitrary cutoff?  Because the number of voters earning over 250K is so small as compared to those earning less.  (The Dems play the numbers game dontcha know…but we mustn’t call it pandering, lest we be ‘haters’.) 

So, even though, according to President Obama, “entrepreneurship and industry that are the well-springs” of the economy…we are going to punish achievers earning more than 250K with higher taxation.  Everyone else gets a pass, in fact, “the checks are in the mail.”  Now…not everyone in the upper income bracket is a heartless, shiftless and arrogant, extravagance-addled, cruel and selfish jerk.  (Though you wouldn’t know it to listen to the class-warfare spewing mainstream media.)

Many of my good friends are quite affluent.  They are decent people who work hard, love their families, live life with vigor and vitality and love America.  Aren’t theirs ‘working families’ as well?   Gary Sinise is a friend of mine.  He earns, I’m guessing well over the $250K line.  But his is a ‘working family’.  He loves his wife, his kids, his country.  Yet, he is in the earning class that is daily maligned by public sentiment as ‘rich guys’… ‘wealthy, greedy bastards’ who don’t care about the ‘little people’.  So let’s get even with them.  The party’s over, dudes…time to pony up.  You wanna dance, ya gotta pay the band.  Cough up, tightwad, The One told us you’re not paying enough (even though your relatively small group is paying well over 50% of the taxes) so it’s time to get out the checkbook.  Because you ‘can afford it’. 

And that’s another thing.  How do we know what someone else ‘can afford’?  And what business is it of ours anyway?  Only the truly greedy and envious can make the claim that they know what somebody else can or cannot afford.  Isn’t it ironic that those who decry the rich as ‘greedy’ …are they themselves the truly greedy; as it is they who covet something to which they have no rightful claim.

But back to my evil and greedy rich friend Gary Sinise.  Nevermind the tremendous contributions he makes towards the Arts.  Nevermind the community events he volunteers to organize each month.  Nevermind the exhaustive effort, time and sacrifice Gary expends selflessly year-in and year-out flying to the Middle East to entertain and uplift our troops; the men and women who lay their lives on the line daily to preserve our freedoms.  But…he achieved more than the average Joe, so he must be punished.

For the rest of us…  Oh joy, we get money back!  (Even though some will get checks who paid no taxes, maybe aren’t even legal citizens, but…are prospective Democrat voters, hint hint.)  “The check’s are in the mail,” said the President last night.  Hmmm…tempt millions of people with immediate gratification, even though we are going further and further into astronomical debt.  Does this sound at all familiar?  As in…the very thinking that lead to our economic catastrophe?  There is another phrase for attempting to mollify people from looking too closely at your actions – Hush Money.

But oh we all feel good about it…because we’re doing it for ‘Working Families’, dontcha know.  This is the new feelgood buzz word, replacing the former Lefty fave, ‘for the children’.  If you are jamming it to the citizen taxpayer, (er, I mean asking the people for more patriotic sacrifice)…you can’t do any better than to do it ‘for the children and working families.’  Cue music, We Are The World.  Pass the Kleenex box, please.

And since, sniff sniff, everything Bigger Government is doing to us is being done For the Children and Working Families, who can oppose it with impunity?  What, do you want to be a child-abuser, a hater of families, a bigot, tightwad homophobe, misogynist, creepazoid from hell?  Well…but I just wanted…to hang on to my business…  Ha!  You selfish bastard!  Where’s your patriotism!  Give peace a chance for the change and hope we need, you asshole!

Nope, we have to go along with this.  And we have to feel good about it.  (hey, buddy, at least use some K-Y, huh?  Maybe slip on a Sinatra record first?) 

It is now considered patriotic to celebrate our own evisceration.

Many a runaway train has been jammed into the tunnel of ‘crisis’.  What has emerged from the other side has rarely been desirable, or even recognizable.  I am disparaged constantly for being a ‘doom and gloomer’…a sour-grapes pessimist…a hater.  “Give the man a chance, my god!” they scream at me.  “It’s only been a month!  Don’t you want us to succeed, don’t you want America to recover??”

Well…yes and no.  I love America…just not the concept of America the Lefties envision.  Ameroeurope holds no appeal to me.  Nor does Ameranada.  Or Amerexico.  And Ameranistan is right out. 

Every time I see Mr. Obama’s big charming smile I am reminded of the famous bump-and-run technique of an expert pickpocket.  They casually bump into you (crisis), then quickly put hands on you asking if you’re all right (caring concern), then touching you further ask if you’re sure, they bumped you pretty hard (offer to make things better), then smile and quickly leave – with your watch and wallet (taxation).

But, the Stimulus Package is officially enacted.  It’s done, it’s happened.  We don’t get a do-over if God-forbid, this thing doesn’t work.  If this old hackneyed Keynesian socialist experiment in futility doesn’t defy the historically consistent pattern of results that have thwarted collectivists since the beginning of time… if the arrogance of its invention is not charismatic enough to lift the mechanism of the physical universe from its hinges…and the President’s plan actually works?  I will tear off my clothes and dance in the street.  Because everything I know will be wrong.  And I will be ready for the dudes in the white coats.  Please take me to my padded cell, sirs, and be quick about it.  Martinis and Zoloft and please turn the TV to either The WWF or CNN, makes no difference.

Reversing this rape that has begun on our nation will take ten generations to reverse – if it can be reversed at all.   America as we knew it is gone.  A memory.  A story to tell our grandchildren. 

I’d love to believe in this monstrous spending plan.  But even if you dressed up a turd… it would still be a turd.

Four to seven years ago, our fathers scored and brought forth on this continent, some new homes, conceived in stucco, and dedicated to the proposition that all men can get second mortgages.

Now we are engaged in a great economic crisis, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated to overspending -putting in built-in pools – blowing a wad in Vegas- buying way too much crap on eBay, then stepping up to a “C” class –  can long endure.

We are met on a great battlefield of this credit crisis. We have come to dedicate a portion of this field, as a final resting place for those who did the right thing; paid their mortgages, lived within their means and gave of their livelihoods, so that jackasses that didn’t put ANY money down, and still spent more than they had, might walk away from their homes scott-free and punk an entire neighborhood of innocent families. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, until it doesn’t work- and we need to do it again.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground, without Pelosi, Reid and Frank standing up and taking all the damned credit. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled to pay their mortgages, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to pork-up the stimuli.

The world will little note, nor long remember that I’m commandeering the census, but I will make sure it never forgets, when this all goes kablooey, that it’s still gonna be all Bush’s freakin’ fault.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of paying through our noses and bowels, year after year, propping up those who overspent, high-tailed it, and are now running up another Capitol One credit card. It is also for us here to be dedicated to the great bailout ballooning before us — that from these toilet-less trashed foreclosures, we take increased devotion to the mighty socialistic causes that will give the short-end to the responsible ones. 

That we here highly resolve that these four bedroom wrecks, shall not have foreclosed in vain — that this nation, under the Democrats, shall have a new birth of socialism– and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall never be seen again.