Fantasy Politics USA

From C-SPAN 2/3/2010;

Alexi Giannoulias is a Democrat running for President Obama’s old Senate seat in Illinois. This is an anti-Giannoulias ad put out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

VA Governor Bob McDonnell Delivers the Republican Response to the State of the Union:

State of the Union Address 1/27/2010;

From the White House; “The President pledges to rein the deficit, citing three specific steps to this end. He praises the Senate for restoring the pay-as-you-go law, discusses his proposal for a freeze in discretionary spending, and calls for a bipartisan Fiscal Commission to hammer out further concrete deficit reduction proposals. January 30, 2010′

President Obama is scheduled to announce in the State of the Union Speech that he will propose a three-year hard freeze on non-security discretionary spending, to last from 2011 through 2013.

Yet, during his campaign Obama actively spoke out against an across the board spending freeze at least 4 times.

The real news will be when this President actually does carry out one of his promises, as opposed to breaking every one of them.

From House Republican Leader, John Boehner; “Delivering the weekly Republican address, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) provides a prebuttal to President Obamas upcoming State of the Union address. Boehner says Republican Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts special election gives Washington Democrats a choice: work with Republicans to create jobs and get our economy moving again or double down on the job-killing policies that are making matters worse. Boehner also outlines Republicans better solutions to address todays challenges, including a no-cost jobs plan and the only health care bill that would lower premiums up to 10 percent.”

From the White House; “The President talks about his first year fighting against special interests and barring lobbyists from his Administration, as well as the fight to come in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision. January 23, 2009.”