Obama Will Mention MA-Sen Loss In State Of The Union

should be one hell of a speech what with no legislative accomplishments, despite controlling EVERYTHING, to boast about in his first year...

Pathetic. Will he also repeat Clinton's infamous "the president is still relevant" comment from 1994?

Nothing says success like spending time in your one big speech to the nation by talking about failure, it's always worked to well in the past. He might also want to take time to discuss anything else emberrassing as a way to, you know, connect with the people. Those subtle reminders of lack of success have always worked.. oh wait, yeah, maybe not.

Hey, I know, he could tell us we're suffering from a malaise! That one always works. Maybe he could wear a cardigan, too.

How will we be able to hear that shout out to Mass over the rethug heckling?

It makes no sense to criticize Obama for what he is going to say about losing a Senate and a super-majority when none of us know what he is going to say about the situation. If he doesn't mention it, it will be the elephant in the room.

It also makes no sense to blame the loss on Obama. He has made some mistakes, but the only other game in town is the Republicans. Here are the real problems: (1.) Bush left Obama with the country in an economic hole that it will take years to get out of. That's what voters are angry about, and there is no quick or easy fix. (2.) The Republicans in the Senate have found a way to stop everything: the 60-vote rule. Those who say all we have to do is use reconciliation and 50 votes are naive and ignorant of the way the senate actually works. Without this rule the Senate could have passed a far better health-care bill with a 56 to 44 vote and they could do it now with a 55-45 vote. It is not Obama's fault that Republicans are using a quirk in Senate rules to stop everything and anything.

It's time for progressives to stop whining and pointing fingers. All that matters is what we can do with what we have in the situation we are in. The way we are currently treating one another we don't need any enemies. We have become our own worst enemies.

Here's my hopeful takeaway from this steaming pile of shite:

Obama is going to try to sabotage the fillibuster. He and the Dems have already started calling out the repubs:

'your anonymous sabotage (fillibuster) won't work anymore cause we don't have the 60 votes to override it. Nope - we now only have 59 (and that includes POS Lieberman, Nelson, Bayh, et al). So now when you fillibuster, you automatically shoot down legislation.....unless some of you repubs are willing to vote to overcome fillibuster. Short of that, we can now lay every single legislative failure directly into your repub laps. No more hiding behind Fox cameras and fillibusters - you repubs now directly own each and every legislative failure. Which we Dems are going to stick straight up your asses. Unless, of course, you are now willing to compromise and work in a truly bi-partisan manner to enact needed legislation. Fail not at ye peril.'

Sorry, folks, this is the best lipstick I can put on this pig!