[NittanyLion]

Brilliant because it is acceptable to take money from taxpaying citizens of the USA and giving it to people in other countries or brilliant because it out flanked the Dems on their left?

Brilliant because it was a Republican President who proposed it. Had Bill Clinton proposed this we would've heard howls of protest.

The SOTU address had many points with which I agree; this was decidedly not one of them.

[Protagoras]

Brilliant because it was a Republican President who proposed it. Had Bill Clinton proposed this we would've heard howls of protest.

Agreed. Party before anything, by both parties. It's about power, it's not about principles of governance. It's how we got into this mess, but people keep buying into it anyway.