Obama’s State Of The Union Shows How The Democrats Can Join The Tea-Party and Win In November
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 12:02PM It goes without saying (so why am I saying it?) that no one on the right liked the content of President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union speech, and many on the left were less than impressed by what they considered a conservative turn in many of his proposals. Many liberal/progressive commentators (e.g. Rachel Maddow and Kieth Olbermann, both of whom are usually very insightful) interpreted Obama’s proposals as attempts to ingratiate himself with the Republicans in congress who, these commentators correctly note, will continue to game any movement toward bipartisanship.
President Obama, however, was not reaching out to Republicans in congress, they are—despite Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts—largely irrelevant. They have taken themselves out of the game and can do little more than heckle the players from the bench.
Instead President Obama was reaching out to the seething angry mob of populists