Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The #SOTU Drinking Game and more



◼ If Obama Spoke Honestly, Here’s What He’d Say in State of the Union - Daily Signal





◼ SOTU open thread: Semi-retired troll ready to bring his troll A-game - HotAir

Prepare yourself at 9 p.m. ET for the magic that only a seventh-year State of the Union speech can create. Every SOTU is a political Groundhog Day but tonight’s looks to be more repetitive than usual — tax hikes on the rich, some whining about the Citizens United decision, a few studiously vague sentences on “progress” made in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, etc. Seventh verse, same as the first. What’s novel is the new reality in Congress and Obama’s reaction to it. Having just seen Democrats obliterated in an election which he himself sold as a referendum on his policies, The One is going to greet the Senate’s Republican majority by … doubling down on the policies that got obliterated. He calls that “playing offense.” Conservative commentators, recognizing that Obama’s proposals are going nowhere legislatively, aptly call it trolling. The more he irritates the GOP by pushing bills they want nothing to do with, the greater the chance that they’ll engage him in a war of words, supplying media oxygen for those bills. Better to have them preoccupied with rejecting his proposals than pushing popular ones on him, like Keystone approval, that he’ll be forced to reject.

So that’s what you’re in for tonight, a solid 60-75 minutes of the most powerful man in the world essentially trying to irritate his opponents because he now lacks the votes he needs to actually get his agenda passed.










◼ SOTU drinking game players cautioned to avoid ‘middle class,’ ‘fair share’ - Twitchy
◼ Say, I wonder how President Obama did on his 2014 promises? - Ben Shapiro/Director Blue













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