OHH!

Gregoire gave her Second Inaugural address today, and although pleasant, it was lacking in detail. Lincoln's Second Inaugural sets a high standard:

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds

Gregoire's rhetoric did not scale these heights, but she was clearly happy to have won this past election, with no recounts marring her speech. She called for generosity and courage in facing a rapidly deteriorating economy.
The P-I noted her speech was a call for bipartisan action:

Despite a bleak financial outlook, Gregoire said this is a time to seize the "huge opportunity" also at hand.
"More than ever, the people of Washington do not want partisan politics. They want us to work together to build a better state for them and their children," she said. "So I will challenge all of us today -- and throughout the session -- to join together. Let's use this crisis. Let's summon the courage to make the hard decisions."

Republicans were happy to hear her say that there should be no more "sacred cows" in budgeting and Democrats were heartened by her pledge to expand unemployment benefits and to create a jobs program. But, the short speech was lacking in the specifics legislators need to form a judgment. The expression "the devil is in the details" might have been coined to describe legislation, where one word can reverse the effect of a 200-page law.