Posts tagged with 'sotu'

Targeted & Effective

POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, JANUARY 29 2008 11:13 AM | PERMALINK

You might have read that President Bush's State of the Union speech was uninspired and trite. Au contraire; it was targeted and effective. He announced significant new policy, affected public opinion in advance of coming policy fights in Congress and gave the Republican Party a pep-talk in advance of the Presidential Election.

The Executive Order he's signing tomorrow to effectively end earmarks is a major development that will profoundly affect the way Congress does business. Earmarks have...
Live Blogging SOTU

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 28 2008 07:57 PM | PERMALINK

Or, The Sitting Duck Quacks

Join us tonight for live blogging with our newest writer, Michael Roston, during Bush's seventh and final State of the Union address. Expect to hear about the economy (don't worry, it'll be fine), the surge (we're winning!), prevention of terrorism (tapping phones of bad guys only, we promise), and education ($$$).

[N.B.: He'll leave out the part about how throwing money at a problem only makes a more expensive problem.]

A little SOTU light reading, though, to get you...