FirstRead notes that, “President Obama laid out nearly two dozen proposals, … but his speech was met by a brick wall of Republican opposition. … “Following four years of this president's unwillingness to challenge liberal dogma, we got more of the same,” McConnell said. That echoed House Speaker John Boehner’s...
“The most striking aspect of Obama’s State of the Union address, writes NJ’s Ronald Brownstein, was how unreservedly he articulated the views of the coalition that reelected him, and how little need he felt to qualify those views for fear of alienating voters beyond it. There was a confidence bordering...
From The Fix, “President Obama set the tone for his second term Tuesday ... polls suggest most of his big proposals have broad public support. That doesn’t mean, of course, that Congress will pass the bills, but it does suggest that the president is pushing ideas that the American public...
From NJ Hotline, “President Obama's State of the Union honed in on many of the themes that have characterized his post-election agenda thus far: A focus on the coalition of voters who delivered him a second term and a critique of a Congress he sees as both obstructionist and dysfunctional....
David Rogers writes, “Washington is in a swivet these days over across-the-board cuts March 1 that threaten to wreak havoc with domestic agencies and military readiness. But the reality is that if every American were to get one penny less on each dollar of government benefits and pay one penny...
Jonathan Weisman and Elizabeth Bumiller report for the New York Times: "With at least one million jobs on the line, Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were closing in on legislation to temporarily head off nearly $1 trillion in cuts that were already affecting Pentagon decision-making and could force significant...
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