Nice One, Mr. President

Published Jan 27 2010, 10:18 PM by David S. Bernstein

I thought the President gave an outstanding speech, extremely well delivered. The dour-context, no-applause opening was pitch-perfect (and well bookended with the close), he chastised the Congress without seeming obnoxious, and most importantly he argued effectively that action = will of the people; inaction = betrayal of the people.

I'm interested to see how GOP tries to swivel away from that formulation.

Oh, and THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT for not doing a bunch of intros and stories about the people sitting with the First Lady. Is it possible that tradition might finally die?

By the way, could congressional Republicans possibly look MORE like a bunch of grumpy old white men? I didn't think so.