It's about the infrastructure, stupid! Tonight's State of the Union address is rumored to be heavy on the infrastructure spending rhetoric. At Reason, Christian Britschgi observes "The point of infrastructure spending is to build infrastructure, not create jobs." Amen.
Early last Wednesday, Iran released the ten American sailors it had detained to coincide with President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. The administration understood clearly that the Iranians were both trying to ruin Obama's victory lap and sending a message—on the eve of…
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes, breaking down President Obama's final State of the Union Address.
The Republican National Committee is responding to Barack Obama's final State of the Union Address by releasing this video, focusing on national security failures:
Barack Obama is preparing for his final State of the Union Address, which he'll deliver January 12. And the president is not looking to slow down as the end of his presidency nears.
There were lots of what they call “takeaways” in the speech. That’s the way that crack speechwriters craft them and the way crack correspondents report them. Most of those lines just roll over the rest of us. But there was one, last night, that jumped out at you. As Government Executive reports,…
MNSBC's Andrea Mitchell knocked President Obama's description of the world in the State of the Union address as "not close reality":
President Obama knocked "constant fundraising" in his State of the Union address delivered tonight from Washington:
President Obama taunted Republicans with an off the cuff remark:
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to fall asleep during President Obama's lenghty State of the Union address:
President Obama talked about spending a lot of money tonight -- on preschool care, community college, new infrastructure, and a variety of tax preferences for middle- and lower-income earners. All financed by new taxes, primarily on the wealthy.
Just before his election in 2008, candidate Barack Obama declared that "we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." From the closing lines of Tuesday's State of the Union address, it appears that a little more than six years later, now President Obama thinks…
The office of House speaker John Boehner has posted the full text of the Republican response to the State of the Union (breaking its own self-imposed embargo), to be delivered by Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa:
President Obama won't claim victory of the Islamic State. But in tonight's State of the Union he will say that he (or "American leadership") is "stopping" its "advance."
Where you stand on President Obama’s State of the Union address last week depends, to some degree, on where you sit. Liberals thought the president was feisty, determined, basking in the glow of historic achievements, throwing down the gauntlet at obstructive Republicans. Conservatives thought the…
The GOP dismisses President Obama's State of the Union Address with this online video, showing the president repeated lines from previous addresses:
House majority leader Eric Cantor applauded President Obama's push for so-called immigration reform in last night's State of the Union Address:
President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union Address on Tuesday that was important less for what he said than for what it says about him.
Almost immediately after tonight's State of the Union Address, Vice President Joe Biden sent an email to supporters of the Democratic party asking for money.
The text of the Republican response to the State of the Union Address, delivered by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state:
President Obama's State of the Union Address, as prepared for delivery:
Fred Barnes, writing in the Wall Street Journal:
Former press secretary Robert Gibbs said today on TV that President Obama and his White House "long ago" gave up on "trying" to change Washington:
President Obama will partner with Google for the "first-ever Presidential Hangout Road Trip," Google announced today.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Fred Barnes, hosted by Michael Graham:
Did I miss something? Or was the State of the Union Address delivered by President Obama last night unusually pedestrian, packed to the gills with clichés, promises, gimmicks, and endless talk of partnerships, goals, challenges, and commissions for which Washington is famous?
The Republican response to the State of the Union Address, which will be delivered by Marco Rubio, as prepared for delivery:
The AP put out this photo on the wire:
In tonight's State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama calls for minimum wage to be raised to $9 per hour.
In his State of the Union Address this evening, President Barack Obama will encourage Congress to adapt a cap and trade plan to deal with climate change. Energy, climate, and taxes are a sizable portion of Obama's speech.
At tonight's State of the Union Address, President Obama will announce that he has signed a cyber security executive order.
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, as prepared for delivery:
President Barack Obama will use tonight's State of the Union Address to announce a group that will explore ways to improve "the Election Day experience." The Huffington Post, which broke the news, calls the group "a bipartisan presidential voting commission."
The following are excerpts of the Republican response to the State of the Union Address, which will be delivered by Marco Rubio:
Tonight, the President will deliver the usual boring laundry list of promises about jobs, prosperity, affordable education, wide roads, and a blissful future. And in the morning, millions of Americans will take a harder hit when they buy gasoline, which is, for most of them, not a discretionary…
In a short web ad released today, ahead of Barack Obama's State of the Union Address, the Republican party mocks the president for always wanting to raise taxes:
From the earliest days of Marco Rubio’s plucky campaign for the U.S. Senate, his diehard supporters spoke of the day that their man would have an opportunity to challenge Barack Obama – his policies, his vision, his rhetoric. They were certain that Rubio was so gifted an orator and possessed such a…
President Barack Obama will deliver this year's State of the Union Address on February 12, which is the same day as Abraham Lincoln's birthday.