Drum Major Institute

Drum Major Institute has just released a 21-page long analysis (in blog parlance this would be a fisking), of George W. Bush's State of the Union Address. I have no idea if they did this last year but the velocity with which they've put this together is unprecedented.

I am reprinting only the Introduction to the report, which you can read online at DMI on the 2007 State of the Union or download as a PDF here.

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Introduction | DMI’s 2007 State of the Union Analysis
DMI Staff

There was little for current and aspiring middle-class Americans in tonight’s State of the Union Address.

On the domestic front, which is the concern of this report, President Bush wavered between promoting ideologically driven experiments to fix our most pressing problems and offering such detailed proposals that the larger challenges were obscured.

When it came to health care, the President opted to push an aggressive ideological agenda on the backs of middle-class Americans, offering “market-based” proposals that treat health care as if it were any other commodity and fail to address the real reasons behind its ballooning costs. On the economy, the President wants to reduce the deficit while maintaining his tax cuts that favor the very wealthy.