Obama’s State of the Union: Aggressive

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech will be less a presidential olive branch than a congressional cattle prod.

Emboldened by electoral victory and convinced the GOP is unwilling to cut deals, Obama plans to use his big prime-time address Tuesday night to issue another broad challenge at a Republican Party he regards as vulnerable and divided, Democrats close to Obama say.

He’ll pay lip service to bipartisanship, but don’t expect anything like the call for peaceful collaboration that defined his first address to a joint session of Congress in 2009, they say.

That strategy has its dangers: If Americans perceive Obama as too partisan, he’ll lose a serious share of his personal popularity. Yet he needs to burn political capital — and keep the GOP on the defensive — to force the opposition into accepting more taxes and fewer budget cuts as part of a deal to avert the $1.2 trillion-dollar sequester cuts looming on March 1.

When POLITICO asked how Obama is approaching the speech compared with his previous State of the Union addresses, a person close to the process of drafting the speech replied with a 2,500-year-old quote from Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu:

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”


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The men and women in the Capitol Building have an opportunity to be strong and stand up to Obama. When they choose not to, they should reap the consequences. This will only happen if we hold them accountable and expect more out of them as our representatives.

May God be as aggressive against him and his evils as he is aggressive against the Constitution, Christianity, the USA and all decency--and may God even double His aggressiveness against the Marxist traitorous globalist thug.