Waiting for Barbour's State of the State

I am writing this from the Visitors Gallery of the Mississippi House of Representatives. It's about 5:20 p.m. and Gov. Haley Barbour will give his State of the State speech at 6 p.m. to a joint session of the state House and Senate.
I will attempt to blog from the speech. Don't forget: The Democratic Party will have its response live on Mississippi Public Broadcasting TV immediately following the speech. We taped the response earlier today. Sen. Alice Harden and Rep. Cecil Brown will give the response.