Our panelists weigh in on President Obama’s State of the Union speech, reaction on the Hill and his post speech moves.
Popularizing “Middle Class Economics”, asking Congress to lift the trade embargo on Cuba and pushing to close Guantanamo, proposing a child tax credit of up to $3,000 per child, touting free community college education: on the domestic front are we finally seeing the President come into his own?
And as turmoil continues on the international front from Yemen to Libya to Greece, it is on foreign policy that a schism with his base is most starkly contrasted. While he did ask for Congressional approval for the US war against ISIL that many had been pressing him to do, he is still escalating on the military front.
And he continues to stand with the GOP on controversial trade agreements opposed by his base. He said little about immigration beyond what he had already announced, and he did not mention the words Keystone XL. But he did threaten to veto any new Congressional sanctions on Iran; a move which led Speaker of the House John Boehner to break protocol, by-passing the President and inviting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress.
Also, as a new video of yet another shooting death of an unarmed Black man at the hands of police hit social media, news out of Ferguson Missouri - no civil rights charges from the Department of Justice against police officer Darren Wilson.
Panelists are: Jackie Goldberg; Tom Hayden; Dr. Gerald Horne
