[ricks_place]

Harry Reid, leader of the greatest deliberative body, snoozed by Obama! lol

[jazminerose]

Wow. Alternative universe.

[43north]

Frank Rich has his head so far up obamao’s arse he can see Keith Olberman’s ankles.

[avg_freeper]

I wonder if it makes one crisp “POP!” or a long drawn out “Snnnnnuuuurgle” sound when Frank pulls his head out of Barry’s hiney.

[FourPeas]

Ah, Frank Rich. Good thing he was pardoned, eh?

[I am Richard Brandon]

Frank Rich is an idiot spouting the Democrat Washington line. This is what makes politics so unbelievable. The unions - I suppose that they do not buy influence at all with their members’ money and labor?

[HardStarboard]

Hardstarboard, prominent Conservative, alternately snoozed and enraged by Obama's SOTU.

It sounded like the teleprompter processor did a random sort on each phrase before putting it up for Obama to read it. Coherent it was not!

[Tallguy]

There was more to admire in Obama’s performance as well. He did not retreat into the bite-size initiatives — V-chips, school uniforms — embraced by an emasculated Bill Clinton after his midterm pummeling of 1994.

There's still time for that, Frank.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

How satisfying it was to watch him provoke Alito into a “You lie!” snit. Here was a fight we could believe in.

Dem Logic: fighting Supreme Court judges, taxpayers, Republicans - good

fighting Iran, North Korea, terrorists - bad (we must understand their feelings)

PS - I like how the NY Times own Supreme Court reporter said Alito was right and Obama was wrong

[qwertypie]

What shallow people think is that future American politics will be controlled by showmen that get the upper hand on their lesser-talented bretheren. Wrong. It is going to be dominated by stark economic numbers that leave no room for maneuvering and playing games. Those numbers are going to crush Obama’s socialist hopes, and make pansies like Rich cry uncontrollably.

[DTogo]

The State of the Union Is Comatose

The State of the Union is borderline:

a) economic collapse,

b) Revolution,

c) Civil War,

d) some combination of the above.

[Las Vegas Ron]

In a rhetorical touch William Safire would have relished, Obama had the wit to rush the ritualistic “our union is strong” so it would not prompt the usual jingoistic ovation.

Huh?

[23 Everest]

Hey Frank, aren’t new outlets like the NYT a corporation?

Why is it okay for them to spout their viewpoints?

[goldstategop]

Frank Rich is delusional. The Democrats have these huge Congressional majorities and instead of easing the plight of the American people, they go on a winter recess and... do nothing. They will be washed out in November. That's the theme that will echo all year - the Do Nothing Democratic Congress. I'm sure incumbents are thrilled at Frank Rich's advice to hang in there and stay the course. But he's not the one having to run for re-election!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[WSGilcrest]

I was embarrassed when they tried to break into a chorus of “We're #1”.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yes, the MaObama Populist tone is certainly becoming the base argument for the Democrats at the NYT.

[Salvey]

Once again, this preening fop is dead wrong.

[sinanju]

Mindless, desperate flailing.

[MNJohnnie]

Dear Frank Rich,

You are still a moron.

[okie01]

The historian Alan Brinkley has observed that we will soon enter the fourth decade in which Congress — and therefore government as a whole — has failed to deal with any major national problem, from infrastructure to education.

Hmmmmmm. Four decades -- that would be the naughts, the nineties, the eighties and the seventies. So, presumably, Brinkley (and Rich) are referring to the sixties.

What was "the major national problem, from infrastructure to education" that the Congress dealt with? Could it be...poverty?

Ah, yes. LBJs "War on Poverty". And decades later, we have spent literally trillions -- and, still, about 15% of the country lives in "poverty". A proportion essentially unchanged from the sixties.

Proving once again that, to liberals, it is intentions that matter -- not results.

[SoldierDad]

The SOTU was actually the “Mistake of the Union”!!!!!