Overall it was a good speech and I happy with its direction and relieved it was not a rhetorical surrender to the right-wing. There was something I desperately wanted him to say that he got close to but didn't happen.
There was one moment near the last 10 minutes that I really had my hopes up for a kind of Jerry Maguire "who is coming with me" moment with Congress and I was a bit let down.
I wanted him to say more than anything: "Who in this Congress is willing to lose their reelection in November because of their support for trying to solve difficult national problems? Who in the House and Senate would rather make things better for ordinary Americans and lose in November than keep things the same and win another term just so you can continue to do nothing? Who among you is willing to lose their seat if it will mean:
- Better/affordable healthcare for all Americans
- Better/affordable Education and opportunity for all
- Millions of new good jobs
- Long term shared prosperity
- The Vet benefits they have earned
- A successful end to our wars, regardless of how they began.
- Sustainable energy production
- A renewed investment in our infrastructure
- Long term security through a wise, open, and benevolent foreign policy and a commitment to our constitutional values.
- Balanced budgets"
It tickled me when he gave the SCOTUS a piece of his mind as if to say to them that they have to stop pretending they are apolitical and modest when both liberal and conservative courts over the years have been anything but, pretty much throughout the entire history of judicial review.