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| SOTU Summary: I will act on my own. I have a pen and I am not afraid to use it! |
President Obama vowed Tuesday to use the power of the pen to chip away at his agenda in 2014, making clear he’ll sidestep Congress at times through executive actions while also lowering his sights for what is achievable at this stage in his presidency...
Forecast for #SOTU: Obama will pretend to say something new, media will pretend to hear it.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 27, 2014
More at Lem's Place.
And Iran. Iran so far away.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 29, 2014
The GOP response from Rep. McMorris Rodgers is fine.
Mike Lee's Tea Party Response is fine.
Update:
Meanwhile, just in case you care what a Seattle socialist city council member thinks about the SOTU...
Jeff Goldstein says it well (as usual):
Jeff Goldstein says it well (as usual):
SOTU and (hypermasculine, barbaric, uncouthly Romanesque) SuperBowl media day open thread
Peyton Manning is cordial. Marshawn Lynch doesn’t like speaking to the media much. Obama likes to hear himself talk and believes that we should be compelled to listen — and if not listen, to do as he says anyway. The GOP will respond by assuring us that they too care. As if that’s something anyone anywhere gives two shits about.
There. My job as CITIZEN JOURNALIST is done.
I think more lies may have been told on this speech than all the other SOTUs combined.
ReplyDeleteTime for the I word.
ReplyDeleteIf not, time for the R word.