I took a look at the speech (didn’t watch last night) and it strikes me just how much stuff is in it. Policy stuff. Obviously Congress has committees and there are separate government agencies that can address these things at the same time. But for much of the public something like this undoubtedly starts to fly over their head at some point. And even for those of us who pay attention to many of these issues, all the information is a little overwhelming. On some things I’d like more details.

I think I would much prefer to get away from these SOTU speeches where all this information is churned out in data dump fashion. Maybe a press conference every quarter could take on some of the main policy problems and initiatives in a more digestable form for the public. Don’t shoot me, I’m just thinking off the top of my head here. What do others think?