State Of The Union Address

State of Disunion

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

The fallout from President Obama’s highly unusual address before the Joint Session of Congress and all branches of government and the American people last week is still generating buzz. What made it unusual was his rancor, blaming everyone but himself for failures in Washington and anger in the nation over the past year. It didn’t lift people up….it put them down. Starting with the previous administration, which is getting old. He has to own his office and what he’s done with it for the past year, and since he won’t, pundits are working overtime counting all the misleading or downright untrue statements he made.

SOTU in check

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 January 2010

That alone, the move by big media to fact-check the president’s State of the Union address, is almost as astonishing a reversal as was president Obama’s and the Democratic Congressional leadership’s since last Tuesday’s loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts to a Republican, taking away their 60 seat majority.

Got change?

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 January 2010

Did those three election losses (New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts) tell Democratic leadership anything about the mood and will of the people at this point in time?