The State of The Union: Biden’s Barn Burner
Biden’s performance last night was everything the GOP said he couldn’t be…energetic, engaging, personable, [insert your own adjective here]
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Against the State of the Union
A brief polemic against the most monarchical, overblown, tedious piece of political entertainment in the American system,
President Biden Wants To Use State of the Union To Change The Subject
President Joe Biden finds himself preparing his first official State of the Union address with a whole lot going on.
State of the Union: Pre-game, Live Thread, and Reax
President Donald Trump will give the State of the Union speech before the House that impeached him and the Senate that will vote to acquit him tomorrow.
The Calendar and Common Sense Conspire Against the Iowa Caucuses
Politically, for the 2020 election cycle, we as a nation are going to get a really poor return for our time invested in Iowa.
The State of the Union’s Quiet Radicalism
Michael Tomasky of The Daily Beast’s response to the president’s fifth State of the Union address sounds much like my own. It was Obama’s second liberal stemwinder in a row; and if nothing else, the...
Obama’s Rhetoric Continues to Lose Altitude
Doug Henwood summarizes an important decline in the reading level of State of the Union addresses,
Something’s Rotten in the State of Our Union
Many have debated the President’s remarks from last Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech. E.D. Kain thought it was very successful, providing the American audience with a “rousing speech about the American dream,...
Obama’s pep talk
From the SOTU: Many people watching tonight can probably remember a time when finding a good job meant showing up at a nearby factory or a business downtown. You didn’t always need a degree,...
The Alito Brouhaha
I’m fairly annoyed by the brouhaha that has erupted over President Obama’s deeply inaccurate attack on the Citizens United decision. One of the weird aspects of my annoyance, though, is that I find myself...
Forget The President, He’s Not That Important (On Domestic Policy)
The interspheres have been aglow with the leaking of a planned spending freeze proposal by the Obama Administration. A run down of various opinions can be found in Scott’s post. Scott writes: This is politics...
Joe Wilson the Thief
I am coming to the opinion that Joe Wilson did not act out in a moment of irrational exuberance and emotionality. I think this was done with calculation, and very much on purpose –...
