Yesterday, during the State of the Union, President Obama decided to call for a five-year freeze on non-military discretionary spending. A whole 66 percent more spending freeze than last year’s call for a three year freeze! On every level, this random call to freeze spending at current levels is foolish political theater at its worst. [...]

In a attempt to appear “serious” about the deficit, President Obama is planning to offer up a heaping dose of truly pathetic political theater in tonight’s State of the Union speech. His plan is to now call for a five year freeze of non-military discretionary spending, which technically only makes up a small sliver of [...]