Since everybody’s going to be throwing in their two cents about what the Democratic response to the President’s State of the Union should be, let me make the case for brevity. Rather than follow an hour-long speech with another 5-10 minutes of counter chest-thumping, why not just say :

“Tonight the President had a lot to say about protecting the American people, but this is the same man who thinks it’s okay to torture people. He’s lying to you again.”

Also, any guesses on what’s going to be the President’s WTF?! moment? We’ve already had human-animal hybrids, steroids in professional baseball, and a manned mission to Mars (sorta). My hope is that he goes a little nutty and goes off on a tangent about how cool the iPhone looks.