State of the State

Today was Governor Pawlenty's State of the State address. The full text is here, the highlights are here.

What was the message? Typical Pawlenty: I solved the budget deficit, moving forward, let's hate teh gay, and so forth. Nothing really Earth-shattering.

Education: Pass the 70% bill. Meh.

Health care: Insurance companies should provide better care and more people should have access to insurance. Yes, and beer should be free too. What is he actually going to do about it?

Natural resources: Pass a constitutional amendment dedicating funding, let's do better for conservation. Nice, but people won't forget how much spending on the environment and natural resources has been cut lately.

Plus, crack down on illegal immigrants and pass the gay marriage amendment, because those (especially the latter) are huge issues.

Where was transportation? I must have missed it. I'm sure I'll have plenty of time to mull it over sitting on the freeway in rush hour traffic, though.

Needless to say, I wasn't too impressed by the whole thing.