 Knocking Their Block Off
As America enters 'State of The Union' week, there's a general rule that news often gets kind of weird in the political media - and last weekend was no exception to that rule.
While former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee began the weekend doubling down on misogyny, another former Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, poked fun at himself and President Obama as he slow-jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress were dragging out tired and weak hostage threats on the debt ceiling, even as top Senate Democrat Patty Murray called their bluff. Meanwhile, the White House is actually having it's first ever "Big Block of Cheese Day" this week - and if you don't know what that means, we'll explain it to you on Wednesday.
In this cacophony of unusual news, two very key stories from Irin Carmon and Greg Sargent really drove home how Republicans might be about to get their clocks cleaned in the 2014 and 2016 elections. Those stories highlighted critical differences between the political left and right that President Obama will likely feature in his State of The Union address Tuesday night.
In fact, President Obama already highlighted one of those issues last week, in another address - though as Ms. Carmon pointed out this weekend, you probably missed it...
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