Sorry, Mr. Bush, but it appears that your pleading may have fallen on deaf ears last night.
Oh pawleeze let me keep my little war. It’s not a big big war, but it’s so important and it’s the only one I’ve got, mostly. I’ll cure aids and fix Darfur and give health insurance, sort of, to the tattered remnants of the middle class. Just please please please don’t cancel my war.
But in the cold light of day, the applause has faded, and the Senate is considering doing just that.
Aw shucks, y’all are just no fun anymore.
Metaphor 
I couldn't handle watching the SOTU outrage, so I tuned into Animal Planet. Made more sense to me. At least there the bugs and chiggers and sharks are straight with you. They want to kill and eat you, not talk you to death.