Update: I’m in this Cato video, my brief contribution on the president’s executive order powers beginning around the 2:15 mark:
I tweeted and liveblogged the State of the Union address last night so you wouldn’t have to watch. Here are Twitter highlights, in regular rather than reverse chronological order:
Tune in tomorrow night as Cato colleagues and I liveblog the State of the Union, or check Twitter #CatoSOTU http://t.co/5jiMgsRzSM
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
Top Dems want "sustained assault on Republicans over a populist economic agenda" from tonight's speech [WP] http://t.co/JDLXM3zC6R #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
Rule by fiat? In decreeing higher federal contract wages, Obama thumbs nose at Hill http://t.co/wZXHvFbgOy #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
The time when Justice Rehnquist sensibly skipped the #SOTU for a watercolor class [Gene Healy] http://t.co/hS3wPcIazx #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
Game on? "Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation… that’s what I’m going to do." #CatoSOTU http://t.co/ZvNadb2Swk
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
White House live feed announces Harry Truman was first President to have this speech "telavised" and spells it that way. Yikes. #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
#telavised may soon be trending on Twitter at this rate #CatoSOTU pic.twitter.com/zCzBPQShbF
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Prez right the 1st time: said executive fiat "no shortcut," we’ve "got this Constitution…sep'n of powers" #CatoSOTU http://t.co/DdUW2PAyTF
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Obama invited the teen inventor of a marshmallow cannon to #SOTU. It would be banned at most govt schools. http://t.co/3y28dPHdR1 #CatoSOTU
— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) January 29, 2014
A nod to needless patent litigation. Devil will be in the details. #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Says he'll unilaterally streamline "big" construction permitting. Not much wiggle room given huge amount of binding law on books #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
He'll lecture firms to give long-term unemployed "a fair shot." Premise: huge LTU problem somehow fault of hirers, not bad policy #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
No evidence the federal govt could successfully scale up quality #preK programs. To the contrary, #HeadStart hasn’t worked. #SOTU #CatoSOTU
— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) January 29, 2014
So depressing to hear big applause for the oft-refuted demagogy on gender pay gap. Here's Cathy Young: http://t.co/QXESJKuAuU #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Diana Furchtgott-Roth has also done excellent work on the myths of gender and pay http://t.co/nl1Mbsmnz7 #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Chris Edwards: "They are not 'our' kids. You have your own, and I have mine." #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Why $10.10? Wouldn't people be even better off with $15 min wage? $50? $100? #SOTU #CatoSOTU
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) January 29, 2014
Gun control much less prominent in this year's speech, maybe because its popularity has faded in polls http://t.co/R6CjK5zhaB #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
"America must move off a permanent war footing." That's the right idea — now live up to it. #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Fairly deft tie-in of human rights w/Olympics, but missed chance to mention int'l religious persecution, Africa's anti-gay pogroms #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Some Slate author. RT @mattyglesias: If the next president went back to the pre-Wilson tradition of written SOTUs would anyone complain?
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) January 28, 2014
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