THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

State of the Union President Obama will address the nation tonight in his sixth State of the Union address.  Class warfare will likely be a main theme, which is anything but a bold, inspired vision for America. Just in the nick of time, Americans are feeling better about the economy.  A brand new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that four out of ten Americans now are satisfied with the state of the economy.  This is apparently the most optimistic reading in eight years.  But is that economic optimism based on real growth, and is Barack Obama reaping the benefits of this upswing ahead of his speech tonight? Plunging gas prices have certainly helped the economic optimism in recent weeks.  And while unemployment numbers look good on the surface, I've explained why this is a false barometer of recovery.  After all, millions of Americans have simply given up looking for work.  Nonetheless, Obama's poll numbers are rising slightly, though his approval rating is still underwater at 46%. So then how will his speech tonight be received by the American public?  Unless his administration has been holding something back, we already know what to expect for the most part.  Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich, redistribute the wealth and spend more money on new programs like “free” community college.  The obvious problem with this agenda is that we can't afford it; we can't afford current spending levels, even if we taxed every penny out of the rich.  His proposals are unlikely to go far, considering Republicans now control Congress.  So why the push for such ideologically progressive proposals?  Because Obama's job is no longer to lead but to set up his party (Hillary Clinton) to win the presidency in 2016.  At least, that is what many of the pundits are saying. He's returning to a tried-and-true argument of class warfare, forcing Republicans to defend the wealthy in the face of programs to help students and the middle class.  As Charles Krauthammer recently put it, “It's the oldest Democratic game.”  And yet they continue to play this game because they know it works and Republicans have yet to find an adequate way to combat it. The only way that Republicans can rise above Obama's attempts to frame the next two years as a battle over wealth inequality and class warfare is for bold conservative policies to be articulated to the American people.  Hopefully some of those policies will be implemented as well.  Then the American people can see what real growth and opportunity can look like for all Americans, rather than punishing some in order to redistribute the wealth and ultimately not achieve any real economic growth. Worst Track Record in History Addressing the nation this week for his State of the Union, Barack Obama has one of the worst track records in history. This is according to a study conducted by two scholars, which found that Obama has the second-worst record of getting the policies articulated in his State of the Union passed into law. Obama ranks only behind Gerald Ford in terms of his success rate. According to the Washington Times, “From 2009 through 2014, Mr. Obama issued 209 different calls for action from Congress in his speeches, but only saw lawmakers follow through on 64 of them — good for just 30 percent. That’s only slightly better than Mr. Ford’s 28 percent success rate.” “Mr. Obama set a single-year record for futility in 2013, just after his re-election, getting Congress to pass just two of the 41 policies he asked them to consider.”