State of the Union  | Tue Jan. 31, 2006 12:16 PM GMT  Can't
imagine why anyone would possibly want to watch the State of the
Union, but it's tonight for those interested. Charlie Cook
pointed out the other day that the only address in recent memory
that was even remotely "important" was Bill Clinton's in 1998,
when the president strode in after the Monica Lewinsky scandal
had erupted and showed everyone that it was business as usual in
Washington, life would go on, and there was no constitutional
crisis in the offing. (Well, more specifically, the purpose of
the speech was to show the media that life would go on; most of
the rest of the country didn't actually think the affair was the
end of the world.)  At any rate, E.J. Dionne has a great column
today noting that whatever President Bush might say in his
speech tonight about "boldness" and "vision" and "reform," it's
been business as usual in the Republican-controlled Congress,
where the upcoming budget vote will slash genuinely important
programs for the po