Today on the Dish we live-blogged the SOTU address. Blogger reax here. Some reader reaction here. Preliminary insight from Jonathan Cohn, Mark Blumenthal, Ezra Klein, and Andrew.
In various news, ending DADT got a major endorsement, a study showed the prevalence of gays anyway, a prominent Palin booster turned on her, Newsday hit a wall, the iPad underwhelmed, and Avatar was crowned king of the world. Prop 8 update here.
Jon Chait, Greg Sargent, Jonathan Bernstein, and Nate Silver fed the P.T.D.B thread. Seth Masket warned against letting the GOP filibuster and Mike Lillis conveyed the miscalculation of the party. Zachary Karabell showed the underwhelming damage of the worldwide recession and Andrew railed against the super-rich. Joe Carter continued to defend the Gitmo deaths – even in the face of evidence like this and government deception like this. David Roberts declared C&T DOA and TNC was down on POTUS.
Dissents of the day here and here. The Dish started a masturbation thread here and here.
— C.B.
(Photo: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to both houses of Congress during his first State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on January 27, 2010 in Washington, DC. Since taking office a little over a year ago, Obama's approval ratings have dropped significantly according to recent polls. By Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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