To retake power, Republicans need to do the math

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Many of us are still trying to figure out what President Obama’s State of the Union speech really told America. We got the generalities about making the weak stronger and the strong weaker.

But was the rest an imperial brag that, “I get to make the law because my pen is mightier than your Congress”? Or a faux-conciliatory, “I love democracy, but these checks and balances are so frustrating”?

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