It’s no surprise that many of the policy proposals in President Obama’s State of the Union speech are unlikely to pass ahead of the 2012 election. The opposing party who controls the House isn’t about to give him any wins. But as a frame of the president’s populist message — more equitable taxation, and fundamental economic fairness — the speech and the stumping that followed have served as a shot across the bow of his would-be GOP rivals for the White House.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=101857