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The following excerpt is one of a list of reactions from the CNN Politics report entitled "Reaction to the State of the Union address" posted this morning (January 28, 2010) at:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/27/SOTU.reax/

"The Tea Party Express: Tonight was a night of hot air, delivered in a way too long speech that revisited pledges we've quite frankly heard from Barack Obama before. His comments in the State of the Union were similar in tone and substance to his comments made after he won the 2008 presidential election and during his inauguration. But actions speak louder than words, and this administration violated its promise for increased transparency. Lobbyists were appointed by the president to positions he swore would never be filled by former lobbyists. Worst of all, we've seen out-of-control spending, and an unparalleled growth in the size and power of government.

We'll start to believe Barack Obama when his actions match his words. Until then, it's just more empty promises, and we've all heard far too many unfulfilled promises from the politicians in Washington. In our opinion, the best part of this speech was the end."

Unfortunately, the media coverage of the event also displayed a fundamentally "dysfunctional" Congress that was seemingly obsessed with the show of party allegiance as the primary purpose of the event. This, no doubt, left many Americans wondering just how big a whole we can dig before the country, in essence, buries itself.

One must also wonder how these folks will ever agree on anything before it's just too late.

They probably won't.

- Ed Smith, Publisher
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