This is happening because they have to start talking about the deep slid of quality of life in this country.  They stopped counting the long term unemployed.  I would like to see a study on how many underemployed there is now.  We are a long way from recovery.

GOP is only interested in making the African American President look bad for history.  They failed of coarse and he will be honored for it and someday have his own holiday. Nothing that they have come up with has worked to help the voters.  

I don't know how much he will talk about labor issues and income issues but the tax on capital is a welcome change. People want government to put their families first not Wall Street. Actually it has been Bernie Sanders, Elisabeth Warren, Bob Reich, Paul Krugman and Sherrod Brown that has framed the next election. They are pulling the train left.  

I'm almost never in favor of tax cuts. Even if they're meant to address inequality. That's one reason I didn't like the stimulus package. It was heavily weighted toward tax cuts. Taxes were higher under Clinton and I don't remember a populist rebellion against the "high" taxes then. I don't think we should be giving people more money to buy more crap. We should be spending that money to rebuild our failing infrastructure or to incentivise needed changes. Tax incentives for people to put solar panels on their houses or to build roads, bridges, high speed rail, high speed internet etc. I support all of those things and more. Tax cuts to put more money in people's pockets that gets sent over seas to buy imported trash is not the path to improve our economy or our quality of life.