White House Wise To Leak Key Initiatives Ahead Of SOTU
Click here for reuse options!The “spoilers” strategy may sap what’s left of the drama of anticipation around Tuesday night’s State of the Union. But that drama has been dissipating naturally anyway – and that’s why the White House has to be pleased with the way it’s gotten items off the laundry list and into display cases. The community-college proposal, the president’s tax plan, the new paid-leave policy – these are all in the political bloodstream now. If we first learned of them Tuesday night, maybe one or two plans total would be expected to get traction. Maybe none of these things end up happening. But the White House has found new ways to cut through the clutter and get presidential ideas front of mind, despite full Republican control of Congress. So yes, the trailers have given away some of the best stuff in this movie. But a State of the Union in the seventh year of a presidency is rarely going to be a blockbuster anyway. If the takeaway is just that the president has a solid script, that might be enough to be counted as a success.
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Dwendt44 January 20th, 2015 at 12:46
the only problem with that is the right wing response will be on point instead of a disjointed, scatter gun diatribe. The Republican response usually is written several days in advance of the SOTU speech, ranting about what this president has done wrong or hasn’t done at all.
Now they know what his main points are going to be, and they will focus their rantings on them.
Suzanne McFly January 20th, 2015 at 13:03
It seems like the right always picks “winners” to give their response to the SOTU such as Jindal, McDonnell, Rubio, Bachman,…..and now Ernst. I am seeing similarities here…..people who have no chance in hell leading lemmings off a cliff let alone an entire country. Why do the chose the most rabid nuts in their party to give a response? They will never get the respect they so desperately want.
arc99 January 20th, 2015 at 16:20
The response will be delivered by newly minted Senator Joni “Obama is a dictator” Ernst R-IA.
I would not ever worry about this woman being on point. I have every confidence that the cognitive dissonance required to be a right winger will be front and center
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/01/joni-ernst-carlos-curbelo-spanish-state-union-republican
GOP’s Big Spanish SOTU Response Will Be a Translation of English-Only Advocate Joni Ernst’s Speech
Dwendt44 January 20th, 2015 at 13:46
the only problem with that is the right wing response will be on point instead of a disjointed, scatter gun diatribe. The Republican response usually is written several days in advance of the SOTU speech, ranting about what this president has done wrong or hasn’t done at all.
Now they know what his main points are going to be, and they will focus their rantings on them.
Suzanne McFly January 20th, 2015 at 14:03
It seems like the right always picks “winners” to give their response to the SOTU such as Jindal, McDonnell, Rubio, Bachman,…..and now Ernst. I am seeing similarities here…..people who have no chance in hell leading lemmings off a cliff let alone an entire country. Why do the chose the most rabid nuts in their party to give a response? They will never get the respect they so desperately want.
arc99 January 20th, 2015 at 17:20
The response will be delivered by newly minted Senator Joni “Obama is a dictator” Ernst R-IA.
I would not ever worry about this woman being on point. I have every confidence that the cognitive dissonance required to be a right winger will be front and center
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/01/joni-ernst-carlos-curbelo-spanish-state-union-republican
GOP’s Big Spanish SOTU Response Will Be a Translation of English-Only Advocate Joni Ernst’s Speech