<On the DNC site, where I got the transcript of the Democratic Response, was a little survey. Remember, he who controls the questions controls the answers. One can see that the questions are arranged to create conclusions that the Democrats want. I've taken the liberty of adding just a few of many missing items in boldface to balance things a bit.

Tell George Bush What YOU Think!

America is facing many challenges at home and abroad. While President Bush prepares to give his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, make your voice heard! Fill out the survey below. We'll even email your State of the Union priorities directly to President Bush if you want, so he can know what's really important to the American people.

1. Rate the importance of each issue to you and the State of the Union by checking the appropriate number on the scale, with 1 being the least important to you and 5 being extremely important to you.

Improving Security Against Terrorism 1 2 3 4 5

Creating New Jobs to Reduce Unemployment 1 2 3 4 5

Protecting Social Security and Medicare 1 2 3 4 5

Preserving the Environment 1 2 3 4 5

Providing a Prescription Drug Benefit Under Medicare 1 2 3 4 5

Protecting a Women's Right to Choose 1 2 3 4 5

Preserving Civil Liberties 1 2 3 4 5

Reducing the Power of the Federal Government 1 2 3 4 5



Preserving the Right to Keep and Bear Arms 1 2 3 4 5

Properly Equipping and Training Our Military 1 2 3 4 5



2. What should be the strategy to improve our economy?

- Tax cuts targeted for middle-class families

- Extension of unemployment and health care benefits for laid-off workers

- Targeted tax cuts to small businesses to spur job creation

- Tax cuts for those who actually create thousands of jobs



- Tax cuts for those who actually pay the taxes

- Decreasing the skyrocketing growth of government spending



- A combination of the above

3. Which of the following do you think was most responsible for turning the projected budget surplus into a budget deficit in the past year?

- Last year's tax cut

- The recession that started in March, 2001 (an unfortunate misprint, I'm sure. My stock started power diving in March, 2000.)

- The attacks of 9/11

- Brobdingnagian* Federal spending, and politicians pumping megatons of pork to their constituents under the guise of Home Security.

- A combination of the above

4. Given the current state of the union, will the economy next year:

- Improve

- Stay the same

- Get worse

- Get totally bollixed up by some well-meaning yet butt-ignorant government monkeywrench thrown into it.

5. Do you consider yourself a:

- Democrat

- Republican

- Independent

- Libertarian



- Socialist



- Other

(*A nice term from my Thesaurus. See also: behemoth, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, titanic)