When my wife told me this morning that Trump caved to Nancy Pelosi over the State of the Union address and wouldn't be giving it until after his shutdown was over, my first reaction was, "Naaaaah...that can't be right." Trump would never back down over something that public, ...read more
At the end of John F. Kennedy’s favorite musical, Camelot, King Arthur meets a small boy who wants to join the Round Table, unaware that it has been destroyed. Arthur knights the lad (who is supposed to be young Thomas Malory, author of Le Mort d’Arthur) and reprises the title ...read more
Donald Trump is set to give his State Of The Union address tonight to assure Americans the country is in good shape and lay out his grand vision for America. Anyone watching it willingly is either a paid journalist, or a masochist. Because watching the president speak for more ...read more
America’s longstanding presidential tradition of the State of the Union address will showcase a president who will go down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest liar in history. Donald Trump is a compulsive liar and he will lie repeatedly on Tuesday when he ...read more
"And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." -- Fight Club Let's make an effort not to make this nihilistic for a moment. There's an easy experiment anyone can do to demonstrate that as ...read more
Yes, responding to a State of the Union address is hard and it's nearly impossible to top the main event. But for some reason, since Obama's first joint-session address in 2009, the Republican responses have been consistently disastrous. Let's do the list. There was Gov. Bobby ...read more
Welcome to another episode of "Profiles in Butthurt," this time our special State of the Union 2015 edition. We'll skip right over Chris Matthews making sad puppy dog eyes and puffing out his thin little bird lips as best he can to lament how Barack Obama is a meanie to cable ...read more
Sue me, I love the State of the Union. Always have. I enjoyed it even when George W. Bush was president, and the record shows how I felt about the Bush administration. (I particularly liked Bush's State of the Union in 2006 when he warned against creating "human-animal hybrids," ...read more
Just about an hour before the State of the Union address this evening, the official White House Twitter account sent out this: The implication, of course, was that President Obama would be wearing his now-legendary tan suit for his address to Congress and the nation tonight, ...read more
One of the topics we discuss here more often than others is how the GOP routinely contradicts its own positions, mostly whenever it responds to President Obama. But these episodes of derp aren't limited to kneejerking over whatever opposite-day position Republicans take against ...read more
President Reagan, for all his faults, devised a fair and reasonable measure of a presidency. Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Sure, the fate of every domestic indicator isn't fully tethered to the Oval Office, and some things are out of his control, yet the ...read more
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) delivered the State Of The Union rebuttal for the Republicans last night, laying out her party's vision for America. Desperate to appeal to women who are leaving the GOP in droves, Rodgers was clearly a calculated pick - reasonably sane, female, ...read more
Happy middle of the week day! Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. Obama Delivers Strong State of the Union Address The polls say that President Barack Obama is at a low point, but you couldn’t tell it from the tour de force of his State of the Union speech. He was ...read more
Back in late 2008 when President Obama was transitioning into the White House, I wondered out loud how long it would be before Republicans began to hector him about abusing executive power. It'd be especially ironic given how they didn't say a damn thing about the previous ...read more
The newest must-have fashion statement for Republican members of Congress at the State of the Union Address is apparently a man-date. Last year Texas congressman, Twitter troll and unparalleled nut-job Steve Stockman brought Ted Nugent on his arm -- a guy who, remember, had ...read more
Four years ago, Bobby Jindal delivered the Republican response to President Obama's first State of the Union address. The weirdness of Jindal's address (we must stop magnetic levitation trains and volcano monitoring!) tended to overshadow the fact that, in the immediate wake of ...read more
Every time we travel by airplane, we have to endure a humiliating sequence of security measures. You know the routine. We've ostensibly done nothing wrong, and yet we have to take off our shoes, we have to take off our belts, our personal items have to be X-rayed or searched by ...read more
Watch President Obama's 2011 State Of The Union - Winning The Future - live online below: ...read more
As prepared for delivery. Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come here tonight ...read more
