"State of the State addresses are, for the most part, desultory speeches that only serve to remind voters of what is not being done -- or, when governors are in promising mode, what will not be done.
It is even worse when the executives peddling the rhetoric are lame-duck governors who are counting down the days to the end of their terms.
That’s the circumstance Gov. Jim Doyle will find himself in this week as he delivers his final State of the State address to Wisconsinites, who polls suggest have soured on his plodding approach to governing.
Doyle does not have to go out as an uninspired manager, however. He has one last chance to be a visionary player in the affairs of a state that he has served for the better part of two decades as attorney general and governor."