I hope he tells us everything he's done to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil. Constructive things like shutting down Yucca Mts. crippling our nuclear power industry. Halting offshore drilling on the east coast and gulf, extreme regulations on coal burning plants and denying the Keystone Pipeline. Not once in the last three years has unemployment been as low as the day he took office (laser focus on jobs my ass.)
Obama grabbed a hold of a speeding train to economic hell. The national election question will be what could he have done better to get that train in reverse or better yet.....is that train in reverse already?
Stay tuned..... I am sure you will hear oodles in the next few months. The trick will be to sort through all of the good as proposed by the Dems and also through all of the bad that is offered up as counterpoint by the GOP.
The incredible thing about the US economy is that it heals itself. It's trying to even though it's not getting much help from the administration. New aircraft plant in SC, prevented by the NLRB. New jobs building the Keystone pipeline, prevented by the EPA. New aircraft contract sent to Brazil rather than Kansas. The list goes on. Meanwhile, how many new jobs were created by the hundreds of billions of dollars "stimulus" bill? ANY?
If Obama plans to talk about his accomplishments then this SOTU could be aired during a 30 second T.O. in an NBA game.
How could he have done anything? We have not had a budget since he took office....! How can a Chief Executive establish priorities, identify problems, address issues and allocate scarce resources towards their productive resolution without a flippin' budget? Anybody? MCG? The notion that he has done anything beyond demonizing Wall St and success, carelessly bloating the federal bureaucracy and in the process creating a debt and regulatory millstone around the neck of this economy that chokes new investment and job creation is sheer fantasy.....are they ignorant or is it their intent to deceive? My answer.....both - and their base eats it up without so much as a fact check.
re: State of the Union The same old lies. Here was Obama's State of the Union speech in 2010 praising all the jobs created by a California solar panel company named Solyndra... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PzNP37XMmX0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe>