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Making Sense of the State of the Union

  • January 26, 2011
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

For those of you out there still trying to make sense of the President’s State of the Union address, we at PPI have spent the whole day thinking about it.

Here are our insights:

  • Lee Drutman gave the speech a B+ for including some version of 8 of PPI’s 10 big ideas for Getting America Moving Again. He also assessed the impact the speech and the agenda it laid out could have on Obama’s 2012 chances.
  • Michael Mandel praised Obama for spending time on innovation, regulation, and jobs, but argued that in all three cases, he got his priorities upside down.
  • Jim Arkedis explained how foreign policy served as an underpinning for the address.
  • Ed Kilgore assessed the Republican response as little more than preaching to the choir on the limited idea of limiting government.
  • Mike Signer discussed the power of pronouncements.

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