President Bush’s final State of the Union speech is being largely ignored when compared to recent years. Instead, the top stories in the political blogs across the political spectrum continue to be focused on the race for the White House.
Leading conservative blog Red State welcomes their Republican president:
While we're all focused on the election, there's still a lame duck in office who gets one last State of the Union address.
However, a more interesting development mentioned on NRO is that Bush will not only have the traditional opposition party response, but a counter speech from a leader in his own party, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling.
Some conservative bloggers are also discussing Bush’s call for a fifty percent reduction in earmarks.
Meanwhile, Daily Kos gives the SOTU a pair of comment threads but has its focus on other targets, like the FISA battle and congressional elections.
On a historical note, the American Presidents Blog links to this site which breaks past SOTU speeches by length.
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