Barack Obama is going to announce spending freeze in his SOTU address.

Obama will attempt to transform his presidency in a State of the Union address focusing on jobs, the economy and controlling mounting national debt.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what John McCain suggested in the campaign? Obama criticized McCain for exactly this proposal while on the campaign trail
Well maybe the administration has been rocked by the shock loss of a previously safe Senate seat that belonged to a Champion Swimmer in Massachusetts for the past 45 years, which has put Mr Obama's fellow Democrats at serious risk of big losses in congressional elections in November. The president's own job approval rating has fallen below 50 per cent.

The dems have often attacked republicans when they suggested in simply reductions of planned increases in government programs. Proposing a reduction in a yearly increase from 3.70% to 3.68% in a government program was viewed by many dems to be the end of the world. The liberals went as far as to say republicans want to see dead seniors in the street when a republican proposed a slight decrease in the amount of a proposed budget increase in a seniors program.

If Obama and the dems propose a spending freeze it will have a serious impact on many groups of people. If we judge the democrats by the same standard they applied to republicans when they attempted to reduce budget increases - it would be safe to assume that the democrats want to see: dead seniors lying in the street, poor children going to bed hungry, sick poor people will be dying because of a lack of care, bridges will be falling down because of cuts in infrastructure funds etc. Come on dem's, you can't have it both ways. Were you lying through your teeth when you told the electorate that the republicans proposed freezing or reduction in budget increases was an indicator that the republican were thoughtless and irresponsible, or are you lying now that a democrat is proposing a spending freeze. How about a freeze on hiringmore Czars!

How about Bambi forgoing the use of Air-force One, to date's night in Manhattan, or Pelosi and her three jets to Copenhagen and having Oprah pay her own way!, Or any of a number of hypocritical spending these thieves can think up?