Bristling with optimism and a can-do pep, President Obama asked for his pessimistic nation’s attention on Tuesday night to announce he would not stand the naysayers any longer. “Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn’t know what they’re talking about,” he said from the biggest lectern in the land on Tuesday night, during his annual State of the Union Address.
Couching his argument in terms of fairness, President Obama proposed a range of policy initiatives Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, asking Congress to shift a heavier tax burden onto the very wealthiest earners, subsidize domestic manufacturers and energy producers, and crackdown on corporations and political interests that have exploited the nation [...]
On ABC’s This Week Sunday morning, the House speaker lays out a process. Well, let me say I have this in three — just so you know, how we sequence this. First, we zero in on what the policy will be, and that is what we’ll be doing following the president’s summit yesterday. Secondly, we’ll [...]
UPDATED BELOW: With a White House fact check of the apparent Alito fact check. Late last night, I wrote about Justice Alito’s apparent fact check of President Obama’s speech. During Obama’s description of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision, Alito shook his and appeared to mouth the words “not true.” This morning, it appears that [...]
