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obama-calling-for-investments-in-state-union-despite-national-mood-souring-onFOX News:

President Obama, after delivering a barbed inaugural address that focused on controversial social agenda items, plans to return to the economy in his State of the Union Tuesday -- but his prescription for growth is still at odds with that of the Republican Party, and many voters.

The president is expected to revive his calls Tuesday for government "investments" in infrastructure and education -- meaning spending.

 

While the recurring push, for Republicans, brings back bad memories of the stimulus law they opposed, White House economic adviser Gene Sperling told Fox News on Tuesday that closing the deficit "doesn't mean you pull back on everything."

 

"I don't think that laying the foundation for future growth (with research and highway spending) is anything to discount in any way," Sperling said. "What you need to do is be smart."

 

Obama on Tuesday night is expected to focus on economic growth, while acknowledging the need to close the deficit through a combination of budget cuts and tax increases.

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Some how I think gun control will be front and center too.

 

 


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State of the Union Cheat Sheet

Mona Charen

2/12/13

 

I haven't been able to pilfer an advance copy of the president's State of the Union address, but I hereby offer some guesses as to what he'll say tonight.

 

The president will assert, against the evidence, that the state of our union is strong. He will boast that during his first term, we averted another great depression, achieved history-making reforms of health care and banking, saved the auto industry and began to conclude two wars. He will caution though, that we face great challenges. Obama will acknowledge that our economy is not as vibrant as it could be and will stress that the way to achieve prosperity for all, not just for the few, is to focus on the great middle class. He will say that it's time to do "nation building" here at home and that we must reduce deficits in a "responsible" way.

 

Here's what he won't acknowledge: Labor force participation is at a three-decade low. Poverty is higher than at any time since the 1930s. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reports that long-term unemployment is at the highest levels since World War II with the average length of joblessness having doubled to 40 weeks under Obama, compared with an average of 20 weeks during the three previous recessions. And we are technically in a recovery, not a recession. Obama will not mention that health insurance premiums are going up, not down, as promised, and that many employers are preparing to cease offering insurance after 2014 (again, in contrast to Obama's pledge that "if you like your health insurance, you can keep it").

 

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The Same Old Lies In A Brand New Bottle.

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Former Army staff sergeant Clint Romesha, who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday, has declined the first lady's invitation to sit in her box on Tuesday night during the State of the Union address.

Clint Romesha told CNN he will watch the speech with friends from his former unit and his wife.

"I've done some soul searching," he said. "As much as a great honor it would be to be a guest of the first lady, it's also kind of hard to break away from the friends and the family and all the great guys here."

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They include a teacher from Sandyhook Elementary School, military veterans, and a 102-year-old woman who waited three hours to vote:

Kaitlin Roig is a first grade teacher at Sandyhook, the school in Newton, Conn., where 20 students were shot and killed.

 

Police Lt. Brian Murphy of Oak Creek, Wis., was the first to arrive at the scene during August's Sikh temple shooting. He took 15 bullets when he confronted the shooter.

 

Sergeant Carlos Evans lost both legs and his left hand in Afghanistan. He met the first lady at Walter Reed Medical Cente and later toured the White House, where President Obama signed his prosthetic arm.

 

Desiline Victor of Miami is a 102-year-old woman who was told on Election Day that wait times were six hours. After she waited three hours, poll workers had her to come back at a later time and she cast her ballot.

 

College student Alan Aleman, an illegal immigrant who used the administration's Deferred Action for undocumented youth to go to school.

 

Also in the first lady's box are registered nurse Menchu de Luna Sanchez of New Jersey, who helped care for at-risk infants during Superstorm Sandy; iTriage founder Peter Hudson; Military Partners and Families Coalition founder Tracey Hepner; Gov. John Kitzhaber (D-Ore.); Avondale, Ariz., Mayor Marie Loez Rogers, the city's first Latino mayor; #My2K participant Lisa Richards; Abby Schanfield of Minneapolis, a beneficiary of the Affordable Care Act; and 12-year-old Let's Move! champion Haile Thomas.

Other guests, who were previously announced, include Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and Nathaniel Pendleton, the parents of 15-year-old Chicago shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton, and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Read more: http://thehill.com/c...e#ixzz2Ki4WygIm

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Mark Knoller ‏@markknoller CBS News White House Correspondent

No speech preview from Pres Obama. Tells reporters we'll find out everything he's got to say tonight.

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Jazz musician Tony Bennett and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) will be two of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) guests at President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Pelosi will also host a fourth grade student and her mother, both from Newtown, Conn., the location of a shooting massacre in December. Pelosi's office announced Bennett and O'Malley on Tuesday after announcing the student and mother a week earlier. The top Democrat's office is not releasing the name of the student or mother.

The fourth-grader sent a letter to Pelosi in support of a ban on assault weapons.

 

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Meanwhile, Pelosi's Republican counterpart, House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio), also released his guest list for the State of the Union address. Boehner's guests include: Ted Kremer, former bat boy for the Cincinnati Reds; Jeanette Hernandez Prenger, CEO of data management firm ECCO select; American Red Cross President and CEO Gail McGovern; Washington Sacred Heart School Principal Arthur Mola, and UAW Local 402 President Jason Barlow. Boehner is also hosting Laci Joseph and Zuri Franklin, fourth grade students in the Washington, D.C.-area who won Opportunity Scholarships.

 

 

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/282501-pelosi-hosting-tony-bennett-and-martin-omalley-at-state-of-the-union#ixzz2Ki7FR8OL

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia probably won't be attending Tuesday's State of the Union address — he's giving his own speech on the other side of town.

The famously bombastic Scalia is scheduled to speak at George Washington University at 7 p.m., two hours before President Obama is set to address the nation.

Scalia will join NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg to discuss "his time on the Supreme Court, memorable and meaningful cases, his working life as an associate justice, and more in what’s sure to be a lively and insightful discussion."

Scalia has at times veered into direct criticism of the Obama administration, including a shot from the Supreme Court bench last year at the president’s executive order on immigration.

 

But Scalia's disdain for the State of the Union speech isn't about partisanship — he hasn't attended one since 1997.

 

Scalia has called the event a "juvenile spectacle" and said, "I resent being called upon to give it dignity."

 

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/282571-justice-scalia-delivering-own-speech-during-state-of-the-union#ixzz2Kiq6iGYV

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Not expecting a huge crowd tonite, but for those that are watching and want a place to vent....

 

Sorry, impossible to watch or listen to that censored.gif . But I will check in later.

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Mark Knoller ‏@markknoller

Tonight, Energy Secy Steven Chu is the Cabinet Member not attending the SOTU to safeguard the line of succession should a catstrophe occur.

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Mark Knoller ‏@markknoller

Tonight, Energy Secy Steven Chu is the Cabinet Member not attending the SOTU to safeguard the line of succession should a catstrophe occur.

Please no mass attack on the place tonite.

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Rand Paul

I will send a clear message that things must change in Washington in my speech tonight:

"If Congress refuses to obey its own rules, if Congress refuses to pass a budget, if Congress refuses to read the bills, then I say: Sweep the place clean. Limit their terms and send them home!"

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Mark Knoller ‏@markknoller

Tonight, Energy Secy Steven Chu is the Cabinet Member not attending the SOTU to safeguard the line of succession should a catstrophe occur.

Please no mass attack on the place tonite.

 

I'm relieved!

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