What I enjoyed about the speech was that he came across as "one of us". I think his advisers are very perceptive. I think the tone of his speech was right on the money: people are pissed off at you and the Senate and the House do-nothings.
The line about Democrats doing something and not heading for the hills was right on the money. F*cking cowards. The line about Republicans joining in and not insisting on 60 votes to get things done was right on the money as well. F*cking bullies.
All in all, I am still cynical about our government. But what a good jerk off session it was.
:D

ETA:
Agreed. Imho, the Democrats are scared of the religious right in our country. It's sad.

Well, since a repeal of DOMA probably has an essentially zero chance of passing it would be a meaningless bone anyway and bundling it together would just make a repeal of DODT harder as it would be viewed even more as a first front down the slippery slope.

I'll buy that.
I wish there were politicians out there that would just stand up to the religious right openly. I'm not seeing that as much. I think the last time I saw that was when Martin Sheen told those religious lobbyists to get their fat asses out of his office during the pilot of The West Wing.

:D

Jobs, jobs, jobs.

LOL that's one way of doing it. If he pulls an FDR (?) on that one I'd totally love to kick back with some popcorn and watch the sparks fly.

Is the question mark after FDR that you're not sure you got it right or that you don't know what I was referring to.

Just in case (or for anybody else), this is what I was referring to.

Yeah, it was a, I couldn't remember if it was FDR who did the court-packing thing.

When Obama called out the Supreme Court I giggled. That was a great moment. Hehe.

Extremely relieved that Scott Roeder's justification defense was so thoroughly dismissed by his jury with about the minimal possible amount of deliberation.

werd