No New Ideas from Republicans
Ezra Klein: "After an election, the winning party typically tries to pass the policies it campaigned on while the losers go back to the drawing board to try to work up a more appealing agenda. But last night's dueling speeches revealed, strangely, the reverse."
"President Obama's agenda has become much more ambitious since the election, ranging from universal pre-kindergarten to raising the minimum wage to gun control to immigration reform. But neither the Republican Party's agenda nor its rhetoric has changed a whit."
Wonk Wire has a good round up of the policy proposals included in President Obama's State of the Union address.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/ ... icans.html