Reading list on last night's SOTU. Be sure to read the Victor Davis Hanson commentary here.

CNS: Not a Long, Nor a Long-Lasting Speech "President Obama carefully said that: "In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn't agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars' worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect."
"The Congress didn't "pass a law." It passed a bill. The bill they passed went to the White House for President Obama's signature. Only after he signed it did it become "law.""  Emphasis added

CNS: 57 Vacation Days Since Vowing He 'Will Not Rest Until Anyone' Can Find A GOOD Job   "But 1,245 days later, including at least 57 days off, millions of Americans are still out of work with unemployment at 7.9 percent, 0.1 percent higher than when he took office."

The Great Man Speaks "Who has the time or the inclination to listen to our President?  So I have prepared a synopsis of his speech.  You could read this or basically, just listen to any other of his speeches."   Read more:

Three conservative justices absent themselves from SOTU

A short note on Speaker Boehner's expression  "In Boehner's face, I saw a man pushed too far. Is he ready to say no to a big spending bully? Let's hope."

Obama blind to his own irony  "But the very Chicago-style tactician who once cracked wise about "bringing a knife to a gunfight" seeks to make sure that Americans never have more than a knife to bring to a gunfight."

From the editors of NRO: The Broke, Retreating State of Our Union 

"The president’s confrontational, hectoring, and highly ideological speech ought to be a wake-up call to the country. The Republican majority in the House is the only real check on his power. Supplementing that check with a Republican majority in the Senate is imperative. Even through all of President Obama’s obfuscations, that much is clear."

Isn't even Obama's sycophantic media getting at least a little bit tired of this petulant juvenile and his in-your-face hubris?

The President’s Miracle-Gro Government  "Just add taxes. Spend. Repeat."

Victor Davis Hanson; Déjà Vu — You Think?  "Five years ago, the well-delivered script caused fainting, now it should earn mostly yawns: Fault the well off; invest more borrowed money in more federal programs that have no demonstrable record of success; blame the bad news on others; ignore the $1 trillion-plus annual borrowing; threaten to use more executive orders; demonize the opposition; take bad news abroad and declare it good, and fluff everything up with the hope-and-change cadences that address the trivial and avoid the fundamental." 

Predictable, Forgettable The speech "will be long forgotten in a few short weeks. And that’s certainly good news for the State of the Union"

By the Republican-despising Pat Oliphant

Obama’s Most Audacious SOTU Lie  "Obamacare is slowing the growth of health care costs?"  The hope of audacity.

Obama’s Most Dishonest State of the Union Address  ...."Obama claimed that spending was under control, the national debt was no longer a problem, the war in Afghanistan had been won, the economic recovery was here, unemployment was fading and Al Qaeda was a shadow of its former self."

...."While Obama lost the War in Afghanistan to the Taliban and will “complete the mission” by retreating and letting them have the country, Al Qaeda has spread across North Africa and came within a hair of taking over Mali."

 

I could keep going with all of this, you know. NBC won't say these things, so somebody has to.  The Tunnel Dweller