Obama Still Working on Last Year’s Agenda

“The State of the Union speech, less than two weeks away, is a chance for President Obama to showcase his priorities for 2014. In the time remaining, the White House is doing its best to make a dent in a long to-do list from 2013,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Amid criticism that the president has made little headway on his agenda, senior administration officials say a priority this month is to tie up loose ends and demonstrate that work is under way on the issues highlighted in last year’s State of the Union address.”

The Washington Post notes Obama “begins 2014 with none of the boundless hope that characterized the start of his second term last year, when the president believed that his sizable reelection victory might break the Republican ‘fever’ opposed to his policies.”