Anyone hoping to hear from President Obama a more overarching foreign policy vision in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night went home disappointed.
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Liveblogging Obama’s State of the Union Address
TIME’s political team will begin liveblogging President Obama’s State of the Union address at 8:45pm tonight.
In Tuesday’s State of the Union, a Return to First Principles for Obama
Before the economic collapse, President Obama focused on how the middle class could thrive in an increasingly outsourced and automated world. It’s a message he’ll return to tonight.
Obama’s State of the Union: An Optimistic President Talks to a Pessimistic Nation
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 …
Obama Calls for ‘Fairness’ in His Address to a ‘Stronger’ Union
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, …
The GOP’s Two-Headed SOTU Response
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan did an admirable job rebutting President Obama’s state of the union speech tonight. As Republicans with more stature have learned the hard way, ahem Bobby Jindal, answering the President’s hour-long speech in under 15 minutes can be tough. But the Wisconsin Republican’s biggest competition
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What A Non-Security Discretionary Spending Freeze Means
President Obama is expected to announce a five-year non-security, discretionary spending freeze in tonight’s State of The Union, effectively extending by two more years the three-year freeze on many discretionary programs that Obama had previously proposed. Just what does this “freeze” really mean?
It is actually something that will …
Nancy Pelosi Talks Process
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 see what the Senate can do. What is the
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Reading The Crowd Reaction At The State Of The Union: The White House View
In the House chamber last night, I was struck by how subdued the crowd reactions had been to Obama’s speech. There were no ridiculously long standing ovations, as is typical, relatively few extended interruptions for hand clapping, and several rather pointed moments of no clapping, especially from the Republican side. (This last part is, …
Justice Samuel Alito, The Presidential Fact Checker
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 …
Justice Samuel Alito Objects To President Obama’s Supreme Court Criticism
The most surprising moment in the House Chamber Tuesday night came not from House Minority Leader John Boehner’s frequent gesticulation, but from the subtle exchange between Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and President Obama.
It started when Obama offered a surprisingly blunt criticism of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that …
What Will Joe Wilson Do Tonight?
Apparently, behave himself. The congressman made famous for yelling “You lie!” in the middle of President Obama’s health care speech tells AP that we shouldn’t expect a repeat performance during the State of the Union address tonight:
“I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior,” he said. “I have the
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State Of The Union Set, Outlook Still Grim For Coakley
The White House announced today that Obama will give his State of The Union address on January 27, saving Lost fanatics a lot of heartache.
Meanwhile, Nate Silver, at FiveThirtyEight.com, who correctly predicted all the Senate contests last cycle, says that Scott Brown is a 3 to 1 favorite going into tomorrow’s election against Martha …