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Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) sharply criticized Samuel Alito's reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, calling the conservative Supreme Court justice’s behavior “inappropriate.” During last night's address, Obama took aim at the Supreme Court's decision to gut campaign finance restrictions for corporations and labor unions. While Supreme Court justices typically maintain stoic dispositions during State of the Union addresses, Alito, who joined the 5-4 opinion, appeared to mouth the words “not true” as Obama spoke. "That's not very judicial of him," Feingold told POLITICO. "Apparently, he thinks he gets to make the law. He should maintain his...

President Obama’s primary problem is not rhetorical -- though, about an hour into the State of the Union address, I gave up hoping that it might eventually build toward something remotely interesting. (For much of the speech Obama sounded like a commerce secretary at a professional conference on a particularly uninspired day.) Obama’s problem is not primarily political -- though he seems in complete denial about the political dangers he faces. (He amazingly blamed his health-care failure on “not explaining it more clearly.”) Obama’s problem is not a vice president behind his right shoulder who can’t stop his distracting, sycophantic...

Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his first official State of the Union address. With unemployment at 10%, small businesses across America struggling to stay afloat, record government deficit spending, and an attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day, Congress has its work cut out for them. But what should the priorities of President Obama and Congress be? How vital is it that Congress pass health care reform? Should we be focusing instead on getting Americans back to work? Are his proposals just really the same failed idea of more government spending or will the proposals actually get our economy back...

Rush Limbaugh reacted to the President’s State of the Union Address last night calling the speech “an embarrassment” and claiming Obama “refused to accept responsibility for his own actions” He hammered the President for ignoring the people’s opinion exclaiming, “This is a representative republic Barack, it is not a banana republic. And Let me remind you that Saulinski and Karl Marx are not our founding fathers.” He went on to admonish the President for his self righteous attitude and his demeanor of “I know best”. The President acknowledged the checks and balances constituted by the separation of governmental powers, but...

Jan 28, 2010 President Obama`s State of the Union Address: Confusion and Indignation The President’s first State of the Union Address was an appropriate reflection of his first year in office: rhetorically ambitious, pragmatically muddled, ideologically dangerous, and surprisingly naïve for a product of the Chicago political machine. But as with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Amory Blaine, for whom “It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being,” so too did Barack Obama focus more upon ascending to high office than on using it well. The President is now stuck upon his pinnacle. To borrow a metaphor from the...

Dow 10,300: Mimicking The Bounce After The Crash Of ‘29 By Eric Fry 01/28/10 Laguna Beach, California – Let’s call it a victory. Despite spending most of yesterday’s trading session in the red, the Dow Jones Industrial Average staged a late-day rally to eke out a 42-point gain. Nevertheless, the selloff that started early last week has erased all of the Dow’s progress since November 9, 2009 – a day on which headlines gushed that the Group of 20 nations would continue to save the world by maintaining their economic stimulus efforts. Investors celebrated that news by rallying the Dow...

Amid the generally positive reviews for Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s speech last night, there should be an effort to see if his recent actions match his words. After saying that “government policy should spur economic growth” and “should not ... pile on more taxation, regulation and litigation,” he took a shot at President Obama’s stimulus plan:

President Obama's State of the Union address should unnerve Democrats in Congress and throughout the country. It was one of the worst State of the Union addresses in modern times – a stunning thing for a man who won the presidency in large measure based on the power and uplift of his rhetoric. For those who hoped the president would use this speech as a pivot to the center, a la Bill Clinton in the aftermath of the 1994 mid-term elections, the speech was a major letdown. Much of what he offered up last night was symbolic. His budget freeze...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing a $300 billion "fix" to the Senate health care bill, saying that her chamber could approve the Senate's package if those changes are made first.

January 28, 2010 White House v. the Supreme Court By DAVID KIRKPATRICK The White House is trying to back up President Obama’s side after a rare moment of dispute with Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was captured on camera during last night’s State of the Union. Justice Alito stole a sliver of the limelight during the president’s address, when he was seen shaking his head and mouthing “No, it’s not true” as Mr. Obama criticized a recent Supreme Court campaign finance ruling. The president, a former teacher of constitutional law, had asserted that the ruling, known informally as...

In case you didn't notice, the State of the Union was the answer we'd all been waiting for. But he made it hard not to notice. It's a wonder he didn't laugh out loud. Share Looking out over the frauds and lightweights and bland hunks of man-cheese that make up the assembled political establishment, and beyond them to a spavined and impotent political culture that would embarrass any self-respecting monkey house, and beyond that to a country willing to abandon almost anything it once deemed important to the first huckster who turns up weeping on cable television, Barack Obama must...

For the first time in U.S. history a sitting President has used the State-of-the-Union speech to slam the U.S. Supreme Court--one of the three branches of the federal government. Even FDR in his rage over the Court's many decisions that declared his programs unconstitutional did not dare take a swipe at the Justices during a State-of-the-Union speech. Given the historic nature of the Obama attack, one would think that the issue at hand is one of extreme national significance that represents the outrage of Congress and the citizens concerning a Court ruling. Not in this case. The issue is restoring...

Any FRpers who are reading this posting, take a close look at the video in the article over at Radioviceonline. It will suprise you, that a USSC Justice Samuel Alito, expressing his version of "you lie". Hmmm. Can’t the one One get through a speech without getting called on something he’s said. From the Poltico:POLITICO’s Kasie Hunt, who’s in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words “not true” when President Barack Obama criticized the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision.

For those who had to call it a night, like myself and missed the GOP response to President Obama's SOTU speech, here is the transcript of the GOP response, from Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia. Thank-you Steve McGough for blogging the GOP response. Here it is:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6149168n

Okay, I never wrote this in advance, but I had thought it was a bad idea to have Gov. McDonnell give the SOTU response. Well, I was wrong. That was by far the most effective SOTU response I have EVER heard in 30 years of listening to these things. I am too tired right now to break down that analysis into more specifics, but I really thought that McDonnell did an incredibly hard job (ALL SOTU responses are incredibly difficult) in a very, very impressive manner. The substance was solid, and the delivery was quite good. He seemed approachable, likeable,...

A year after his historic election as the nation’s first African-American president, Barack Obama is at a crossroad. In his State of the Union address Wednesday, President Obama aims to deliver a game changing message, one capable of convincing Americans that his policies will create jobs, curb spending, restore prosperity and encourage national unity. Obama supporters Harry and Elysa Davis worry that with the brutal defeat in Massachusetts, voter discontent over his healthcare overhaul running high and the recession’s effects cutting deep, the president’s trademark message of hope may fall on deaf ears. Consider the poll last week by the...

President Obama's Big Speech was given tonight, and unlike the predictions made by most pundits, there was no "pivot." He doubled down on Cap and Trade, he doubled down on health care and continued to say that the failed stimulus package was successful. This was a defiant Barack Obama, he attacked the GOP, Industry and very surprisingly the Supreme Court of the United States. He tried to give the impression that he "felt our pain" but it all seemed hollow. " I never said change would be easy, he said. And that word I, he said it over and over...

Obama gave a 70 minutes-long boring speech. The speech was about him: he mentioned the words "I," "me," and "my" more than 100 times. [President Bush said "I" only 21 times during his first State of the Union Address.] He talked about the "deficit of trust:" "We face a deficit of trust -– deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close that credibility gap we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue -- to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; to give our people...

He was financed by America-hater George Soros, and is the man who hired Van "The Red" Jones, Kevin "Fister" Jennings, and appointed Eric "Miranda" Holder, Janet "Get the Right" Incompetano, Anita Mao Dunn and Wall Street Rahm Emanuel. Kevin "Fister" Jennings in our schools teaching our children disgusting homosexual practices? Ohaha says no problem. Janet "Get the Right" Incompetano issuing orders to L/E to suppress and destroy conservative groups? Ohaha says no problem. Wall Street Rahm Emanuel rigging our government to enrich his financial cronies? Ohaha says no problem. Eric Holder Mirandizing terrorists and using tax dollars to defend them?...