What will the State of The Union Address be about?

Another carefully crafted speech from President Obama

With the State of the Union address being highly anticipated by many Americans, there are a number of us expecting to see a well scripted line of excuses and passing the blame onto President’s who are no longer running this country.

The issues expecting to be discussed in tonight’s address will most likely follow President Obama’s typical finely tuned lines of a campaign strategy speech, provided to him via a teleprompter, while filled with many empty promises for creating jobs, solving health care issues, and using cap and trade to fix the global warming issues that we all know don’t exist. Being a citizen of Iowa, I have spoken with many Iowans who would love to have some of that global warming right about now. The people of America are beyond the excuses and beyond the blame Bush practices, and simply want real solutions that will work to bring the U.S. economy back to a point of stabilization.

With expectations boiling, Paul A. Rahe, offers President Obama his version on BigGovernment.com, of what the State of the Union address should look like:

My fellow Americans, let me begin by stating the obvious. The state of our union is not good. We seem to be – we may be – coming out of a recession. But, if so, the recovery is not only jobless; it is accompanied by an increase in unemployment.

This is contrary to my expectation. When I became President, my economic advisers told me that the rate of unemployment would be considerably lower now than it is. They were mistaken, and I erred in taking their advice. The fault is mine. I may not have gotten us into a severe recession, but I advanced proposals and I pursued policies which have prolonged and deepened it. I am at fault.

To be precise, I signed into law a so-called stimulus bill that has thus far retarded economic growth by greatly increasing the size of the federal bureaucracy, the expense of supporting it, and the national debt. I urged Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation that, had it become law, would have greatly increased the cost of energy, and I encouraged Congress to pass a healthcare reform that would have increased not only the cost of medical care but the burden on employers attendant on hiring. Everything that I did in my first year in office contributed to economic uncertainty and made employers less likely to hire and investors wary of investing. I am at fault.

Read more on Paul’s version…

When asked for a statement about tonight’s address, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) had this to say,

“President Obama has had so many things that have gone wrong.  His popularity has gone down substantially and some of it for good reason. So the argument that he would put a cap or a freeze on discretionary spending is something that had been leaked out that I think he intends to say, but that doesn’t do much and I don’t think it changes the political tide.”

While searching for to see what others are writing about the State of the Union address, I found that many of the main stream media sources, who use to support President Obama, are now offering up back-handed views of what they expect to hear tonight.

Other stories of interest:

1. Amnesty Bill will be American’s Next Crisis
2. President Obama’s State of the Union Address from 1-27-2010
3. State of the Union Address Backpedal and Push
4. President’s Weekly Address, Economy and Health Care Reform, on Saturday August 8, 2009
5. Iowa Congressman Steve King Receives Defender of Economic Freedom Award