A Less Partisan State Of The Union?

January 19, 2011

President Obama and some members of Congress are trying to set a new tone at next week’s State of the Union address, having apparently concluded that last year’s hyper-partisan smackdown did not serve them well. Bucking more than 200 years of tradition, some lawmakers have said they plan to sit with members of the opposite party when the president makes his Jan. 25 address. Sen. Mark Udall, D.-Colo., was the …

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Alito Takes The Bait

January 29, 2010

Never in living memory has a president chosen to bait the U.S. Supreme Court in his State of the Union message. But that is what President Obama did this week, and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took the bait. Obama and fellow Democrats are livid over the high court’s 5-4 ruling last week that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to advertise for or against political candidates. To …

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