Watch it online or on TV. Talk about it here. (Jim Young/Reuters)
6:52 PM PT:
Bush economy really hummed...for Bernie Madoff & Mitt Romney!“@alexcast: Oratory not W's strength. just 52 consecutive months of econ growth
— @PaulBegala
6:53 PM PT: Shout out to Richard Cordray. (Can't wait for Elizabeth Warren to go to her first SOTU as a U.S. Senator next January.)
6:54 PM PT: I wonder what she thinks DARPA is.
Is Obama really trying to buy votes w free Internet? America, let's pay for our own Internet and kick his butt out of the Oval Office!
— @ChristineOD
6:56 PM PT:
"I like to be able to fire people who provide services to me!" - Obama, later tonight, about the speechwriter who included the milk line.
— @brianbeutler
6:59 PM PT:
Washington should stop subsidizing millionaires. In fact, if you’re earning a million dollars a year, you shouldn’t get special tax subsidies or deductions. On the other hand, if you make under $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of American families, your taxes shouldn’t go up. You’re the ones struggling with rising costs and stagnant wages. You’re the ones who need relief.
Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense.
We don’t begrudge financial success in this country. We admire it. When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it’s not because they envy the rich. It’s because they understand that when I get tax breaks I don’t need and the country can’t afford, it either adds to the deficit, or somebody else has to make up the difference – like a senior on a fixed income; or a student trying to get through school; or a family trying to make ends meet. That’s not right. Americans know it’s not right.
They know that this generation’s success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other, and to their country’s future, and they know our way of life will only endure if we feel that same sense of shared responsibility. That’s how we’ll reduce our deficit. That’s an America built to last.
He' s not a radical commie. He just knows his math. And his history.
7:01 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): The liveblogging continues in the next thread.