My live notes on President Obama's first address to Congress

Christopher Dodd's eyebrows are out of control

Michelle mouthing I love you to Obama: how cute are they!

Great start on his address! We will rebuild, we will recover. (Hope Wall Street is listening)

"Nobody messes with Joe" That Joe Biden sure has a Colgate smile

"We have lived through an era where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election." "It’s not about helping banks – it’s about helping people." Obama is such a clear and magnificent orator--what a change from last year

McCain still looks smug

Energy! Health Care! Education! We're back to the priorities that really matter.

Basic research funding priorities!! $15B a year for new clean-energy technologies

"We can't afford to put health care reform on hold"

Electronic health records! Cure for cancer! I'm sure NCI is going crazy right now...

Nice! Every American will need to get a high school diploma, dropping out of high school "is not quitting on yourself it's quitting on your country" He's right though, failure to get a high school diploma closes many doors and is an almost guaranteed sentence to poverty, poor health, younger death...

"By 2020 the USA will have highest proportion of college graduates in the world"--let's do it!

I love Obama's message of volunteerism and national service. I also liked his tribute to Ted Kennedy "an american who has never stopped asking what he could do for his country"

It would be funny if Pelosi and Biden started playing chicken with Congress. Standing up? Oh no we're not, fooled ya

Seems like a few senators and representatives are on their BlackBerrys. What gives people? It's the POTUS speaking!

His budget will cut 2 trillion dollars over the next decade?! Savings: education programs that don't work (No Child??), no-bid conracts in Iraq (yes! in your face Cheney!), big agro businesses that don't need money, weapon systems we don't use, medicare fraud and abuse, ending tax breaks for corporations that shift jobs overseas. He will end tax breaks for wealthiest 2% of Americans (would be great if we could also do a better job identifying tax fraud in this bracket--seems like the only way for these people to get audited is to be nominated for a cabinet position!)

"We're suffering a deficit of trust"... Will report full costs of Iraq and Afghanistan! Yes!

So nice to hear someone who can fully enunciate the word terrrorist and doesn't say "nucular"

Yes! Expanded health care and benefits for veterans! Hopefully that includes mental health services

"Living our values doesn't make us weaker it makes us safer and stronger"

"The USA does not torture!" (cue to McCain)

Ty'Sheoma got me misty eyed. Would she have typed up that letter if anyone other than Obama had been elected President?

Thank YOU, Mr President!!

PS. Gov. Bobby Jindal talks like he's on Sesame Street... Actually it's more like Kenneth from 30 Rock... It is! It's exactly like Kenneth on 30 Rock!

PPS. Thought it was cute how the staffers and pages were going crazy trying to get a handshake

PPPS. Confirmed! Several members of Congress were using their BBerrys! However, they weren't playing tetris or checking email, they were twittering to their constituents on their impressions on the speech http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Members_of_Congress_who_Twitter

My mom would so appreciate this post...

The Washington Post publishes a contest for readers in which they are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words.

Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.

Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent

Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.

Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.

Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.

Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.

Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.

Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.

Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.

Bustard (n.), a rude bus driver.

Semantics (n.), pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood.

Spatula: n. A fight among vampires.

Excruciate: n., the ligament that attaches your ex-wife to your paycheck.

Perplexed: adj., lost in a movie theater.

Population: n., that nice sensation you get when drinking soda.

Racket: n., a small pair of breasts.

Nincompoop: n., the military command responsible for battlefield sanitation.

Ineffable: adj., describes someone you absolutely cannot swear in front of.

Pontificate: n., a document given to each graduating pope.

Pimple: n., pimp's apprentice.

Discussion: n., a Frisbee-related head injury.

Ozone: n., area in which the G-spot is located.

Flattery: n., a place that manufactures A and B cup brassieres only.

Cabbage Patch: A patch for those trying to stop eating cabbage.

Sudafed: A software program on how to file a civil action against the government.

Pop Secret: Paternity suit settled without publicity.

Oral-B: Monica's grade on her last intern evaluation.

The Washington Posts Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition:

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the reader who doesn't get it.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

Karmageddon: End of the world due to a build up of bad-vibes.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Intaxication: Euphoria at receiving a tax refund, which lasts until you realise it was your money to start with.

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Tumfoolery: When a middle-aged man sucks in his stomach while being introduced to an attractive woman

Fadavers: Last year's hot fads.

Main Geeze: How an elderly, unmarried couple refer to each other.

Polarvoid: The state of having no baby pictures, a condition that usually befalls the second-born child.

Dozie: The lie a person tells when a telephone caller wakes him up and he denies that he was sleeping.

Hooternanny: The au pair you thought was especially promising, but your wife sent back to the agency.

Alexpandria: A town known for its buffet restaurants.

Apocalypstic: The little smudge I came home with on my collar that makes my wife act like it's the end of the world.

Defenestraction: A ruse to divert the cop's attention while you throw the evidence out the window.

Accimental: Caused by a Freudian slip.

Algaebra: What the Little Mermaid wears over her chest.

Aliass: A body double for a nude scene.

Arbyss: The deepest part of the stomach, reserved for two Giant Roast Beefs, large Curly Fries and a chocolate shake.

Avant-harde: Before the Cialis kicks in.

Doltergeist: a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.

Guillozine: a magazine for executioners.