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Gail Collins weighs in on the SOTU speech with:
Yes, the one good thing you can say about our highest elected officials is that they are ticked off at so many people that sooner or later they’ve got to climb up on some common ground. The House hates the Senate. The liberal Democrats hate the moderate Democrats. The normal conservative Republicans hate the hyper Tea Party-types. The Tea Party-ists are having so many internal fights that there’s a definite danger of broken crockery.
And, of course, everybody hates the bankers, except the Republicans who sat on their hands when the president called for taxing them.
Nicholas Kristof says:
Over the years, I’ve written many columns about Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture, not to mention the abuses that go on in Chinese and North Korean prisons. But I’ve never written about the horrors that unfold in American prisons — especially juvenile correctional facilities — on a far larger scale than at Guantánamo.
... and tells the tragic story of Rodney Hulin Jr.:
The legacy of Rodney Hulin Jr. should be a concerted drive to end the way inmates are raped with impunity behind bars. The survey results indicating the ubiquity of sexual assault behind bars, often by guards, should be an awakening — and an end to this blind spot that so many of us have shown. We need to be as alert to human rights abuses in our youth correctional facilities as to those at Guantánamo.
Dana Milbank seems to have found the SOTU speech to be a yawner.
E.J. Dionne on the other hand, thinks that:
... it was clear that the Obama who addressed the nation on Wednesday also understood that he confronts a Republican Party that sees unflinching opposition as blazing a path to victory. And he offered himself as a president ready to do battle. "We don't quit," he said. "I don't quit."
Donald Lambro writes the President's obituary -- I did a little editing:
The political health of President Obama and his party can be summed up in one sentence: His legislative agenda is in shreds, his economic policies have failed, and Democratic prospects in the midterm elections are bleak at best. His party controls the White House, the Senate and the House and I'm still not over it.
David Broder sobs, can't we all just get along? Seriously, whether you agree with him or not, his quivering-lip pleas for bipartisanship are beyond stale.
wordle's take on the speech: