> > So what are the odds on the State of the Union effect? My guess is
> > that as long as Bush avoids visibly frothing, it will be proclaimed a
> > "home run" by the pundits, who will condede that he still has a
> > little more work to "close the deal" on the war, but conclude that
> > the speech was a masterful and heroic intervention that has changed
> > the course of history. Am I being too pessimistic?
>From my Dad, who will be home late tonight, covering the SOTU for the local
TV news in Houston, Seattle, Louiville and Honolulu:
> Not the way the Democrats (many of them) have been talking in the past few
> days.
> Daschle and Pelosi set the bar high yesterday - challenging him to explain
> clearly the rationale for war now
> Unless he provides some
> details the inspectors so far have not, the economic stuff will get very
> high play.
> You'll notice that even Bill Thomas (ways and means chairman and a tax
> ideologue) threw cold water on the dividend taxcut.
Seth