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Blaze Preview: Aggressive or Toned Down? What You Can Expect During Tonight’s State of the Union Speech

Feb. 12, 2013 7:20am Eddie Scarry

Inauguration Redux With A Little Bipartisanship: SOTU Expectations Roundup

President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner as Vice President Joe Biden watches before Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

After articulating a decidedly progressive vision in his inaugural address last month, the question is whether President Obama will double down with an aggressive State of the Union Address on Tuesday or take a milder approach.

Expect an “aggressive” speech, Politico reports: “Privately, administration officials see it as an extension of Obama’s unabashedly provocative and progressive Jan. 21 inaugural address, their latest attempt to leverage favorable deals on the sequester and the debt ceiling comparable to the watershed deal Obama secured on increasing taxes on the wealthy.”

Eleanor Clift, contributing editor at The Daily Beast, backs up that report, noting the use of props to illustrate gun regulation and immigration reform: “A senior White House official says the president will use the speech “to reinforce his commitment to expanding economic opportunity for middle-class families and those Americans striving to get there. It will be focused on the pocketbook issues that dominated the debate in his first term and proved decisive in the outcome of last year’s election.

“The White House is urging reporters to view the inaugural address and SOTU as ‘two acts in the same play,’ so that in addition to the middle-class economic focus Tuesday, ‘the president will echo many of the themes in the inaugural address.’ It is sure to be an emotional evening, with survivors of gun violence and young people striving for citizenship known as ‘DREAMers’ seated in the House chamber to symbolize policy changes under way.”

An analysis from The Hill anticipates Obama will call for bipartisan work specifically on immigration and gun control while he can get it: “Lawmakers say the president’s Tuesday speech will set the tone for the next 11 months, which is all the time the parties have to pass big bills before they dig in for the next election. …

“Obama’s high approval ratings are sure to fall, and bipartisanship on Capitol Hill is always fleeting. Timing is everything — and Obama’s time is now.”

Nuclear arms reduction and national cyber security will be addressed in the speech, according to the New York Times: “Mr. Obama, administration officials say, is unlikely to discuss specific numbers in the address, but White House officials are looking at a cut that would take the arsenal of deployed weapons to just above 1,000. Currently there are about 1,700, and the new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia that passed the Senate at the end of 2009 calls for a limit of roughly 1,550 by 2018. …

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising star in the GOP, will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama s State of the Union address on Tuesday.Credit: AP

“Within days of the State of the Union address, officials say, he plans to issue a long-anticipated presidential directive on combating cyberattacks aimed at American companies, financial institutions and critical infrastructure like the electric grid. The announcement comes at a moment of heightened attacks from China and, most recently, from Iran.”

More specifics: federal spending on infrastructure, higher education and research, reports the Washington Post: “Several senior administration officials involved in the speech say he will use his fourth State of the Union address to talk about jobs after the national unemployment rate ticked up last month. He will propose ways to make college more affordable to more people. And, the officials said, he will argue for the need to spend public money — on research, on roads, on education — to prepare Americans for a world where a warming climate, a nomadic labor force and new technology are shutting doors and opening new ones across the national economy.”

Obama’s Address will begin at 9 p.m. ET. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will deliver the Republican response to the Address (in both English and Spanish!). Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will follow with the “Tea Party” response.

Like Obama’s, the GOP response will be broadcast on TV. Paul’s speech will be streamed on the Tea Party Express website. All three speeches will be carried on TheBlaze TV, with coverage starting at 6pm ET (watch here).

TheBlaze will also host a live chat with our writers, editors and readers for the event. Check the homepage for the link Tuesday.

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Comments (55)

am123
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:28pm
Who wants to watch the useful idiots cheer Obama on as he destroys America from within?

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noslave
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:35pm
would love to see republicans weilding bats beat the democrat mutts sensless??would even pay per view all money going to military families??

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beefrank
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:01pm
What difference does it make? The same A-holes will be in office after the SOTU speech.

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LoneStar50
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:50pm
If you’ve heard one of BO’s speeches, you’ve heard them all. He makes minor changes in wording, but it’s all a load of manure.

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DisgustedinUSA
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:53pm
Heres my opinion of whats going to take place tonight, and I’m NOT going to watch it.

Obama’s gonna come on, with his smug, pompous face in the air, and LIE and blame everything on Bush and the Republicans, and the GOP and the House and act like the little prissy he is and cry “poor me, I’m trying so hard to do the right thing” and the camera will go onto that nasty, ugly wife of his and that equally ugly mess Pelosi, and then Big mouth biden will shine his fake teeth and laugh like a hyena and NOTHING will happen or change. Thats my take on it all. I wonder how close I really am.

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denkat56
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:03pm
Also as side note for Mr. Nugent, keep checking the skies for drones.

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denkat56
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:00pm
Higher taxes on the rich, more free stuff for the non working types. Guns are bad, not the criminals just the guns. Making everyone the same, no matter what. Creating a new panel to find out if we need any new panels. Checking out Michelle’s outfit, and to see if she still has a big ****. Make sure Bidden claps and stands on cue. And shots of Ted Nugent, and the accompanying slurs from Mathews ,Morgan, and a challenge for a fight from the other idiot clown at MSNBC

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zoro51
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:55am
what to expect more ******** blameing all on BUSH n more LIES but a SOCIALIST WANNA BEA DICTATOR.. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS MUSLUM BORN LIAR he IS not A president of anything BUT him self… IMPEACH N THROW OUT OF THE USA NOW

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BehindTheMouth
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:39am
Blah,Blah, Republicans fault, blah,blah more stimulus, blah blah, nobody wants to work with me, blah, blah, I’ll do it myself, blah blah.
Dance moms will be more truthful tv than this piece of crap tonight.

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GrayPanther
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:23am
Don’t watch on an upset stomach unless you have a barf bag nearby. We can expect the soaring rhetoric, lots of sick smiles and a well delivered tel-a-prompter speech. If BHO should get too hostile with comments about Republicans, I would hope a walkout would be strongly considered. Since BHO was elected by uninformed drones from America’s colleges, most of them will not be watching and his lies can be directed to his adoring progressive friends in the CPUSA. And don’t forget the NEA who endorses Saul Alinsly’s books including “Rules for Radicals”. They will definitely get a promo in tonight’s dissertation.

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barber2
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:45am
This will just be another Democrat Media Circus . People flown from all over to get their 15 minutes of Agenda pedaling fame at tax payers’ expense. Feed the Media Beast which is what enables the Chicago radicals to occupy the White House. Smile for the camera. The Wizard of Oz show continues. Carbon footprint explodes. Who cares ? Ask Al Jareeza Gore about their ” truth in advertising.” The radical Democrats are all about dividing the country, destroying capitalism, confiscating guns, suppressing conservative media, and dismantling the Republican Party. And their Trolls are sure active here on the Blaze which is being Occupied just like the OWS did to Democrat controlled cities.

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TRILO
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:27am
Spend more, tax the evil rich and outright lies. I will not be wasting my time this evening watching the Liar in Chief

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republic2011
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:44am
Who cares… He won’t say anything new and he will be lying through his teeth. The POTUS is a POS.

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Tigress1
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:40am
Gabby Giffords is supposed to be at this address AGAIN. How many times is Obama going to USE her to gain pity for his agenda?

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Uechi
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:34am
I’d rather watch grass grow then what the Messiah’s Marxist minstrel show.

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Tigress1
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:32am
It will be interesting to see if Obama DARES to say he wants to “invest in infrastructure”. That’s what the first “Stimulus” was for! Where did the money go? Answer: Obama’s cronies – failed “green energy” companies like Solyndra.
Just say “No!”
Taxed Enough Already!
We are BROKE! What part of “broke” does Obama not understand?

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