Five Points For President Obama to Address in Tonight's State of the Union

1. Finishing heath care reform once and for all. President Obama must not only reestablish the sense of urgency in passing health care reform, but he must commit to asserting himself into the final process if Congress continues to delay.

2. Outlining a jobs bill with teeth. Unemployment functions as the core of America's economic insecurity. Learn from the faults of a too-timid stimulus package, and put forth an aggressive policy for achieving real job creation.

3. Course of action for ending Don't Ask Don't Tell. President Obama has been committed to ending DADT for several years now. If I may use a version of his own words, the time for verbal commitments has passed, the time for taking action has come.

4. Spending freeze is more than political theater. If a targeted freeze on domestic government spending is good policy in the current economic state, then make the case.

5. Congressional Republicans have been obstructionists. If the GOP wants to operate as the Party of No, that's their prerogative. It's time for President Obama to call them out on it, and to do so in front of the American people.
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10 Resolutions For 2010

1. End 20+ years of biting my fingernails.

2. Microfinance through Kiva.org.

3. Experience a new city with my wife.

4. Create a detailed outline of my book idea.

5. Have more kayaking adventures.

6. No cable television news before 8pm.

7. Increase book reading to a book a month.

8. Have more bike riding adventures.

9. Own a PS3 sooner rather than later.

10. Accomplish half of these resolutions.


Note: If you're wondering why it's taken me half of January to post these resolutions, it's because (a) I abandoned social media for the first week of January in support of my wife's one week "digital cleanse," and (b) I'm a procrastinator, which you'll notice I conveniently left off my list of resolutions for 2010.
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