It was back to school night in the Feehery Household, so I missed the President’s address to the Congress.

Bummer.

I knew the President was giving a big speech because all the roads around the Capitol were closed, complicating my effort to find parking at Back to School Night (my son’s school is about 4 blocks from the white domed building).

I can’t say I was that disappointed to miss the speech.  In my Congressional career, I saw plenty of joint sessions where a President makes this or that speech.  I remember when George Bush the first gave an address to Congress where he tried, in vain, to shift his attention to the fascinating things that were happening in the rest of the world to a domestic agenda back here at home.  But Bush didn’t have much of the “vision” thing, and he ultimately lost.  Read more...