On this State of the Union speech day, we await President Obama's attempt this evening to appease a righteously upset American electorate.  It will probably consist of another formulaic rhetorical address, followed by the administration's usual busy getting dizzy motions ensuring either the minimum or no effective,substantive result for the common good.  In the end, it will translate into failure to produce millions of needed jobs.

Just as it's impossible for a leopard to change its spots, the DINOs, among whom is included the president, are unable to change their actual corporatist philosophy, even though they can fool some of the people all of the time with their phony "Democratic" spiels.

However, many progressives, like Jonathan Tasini at Working Life, warn when the emperor has no clothes:

"I wonder if you feel this way. We face the greatest emergency in our adult lifetimes. It's not the deficit. It's the reality that one in five Americans does not have decent paying work and that one in four children are on food stamps--in the richest nation in human history. That is a five-alarm fire that should call upon us to pull out all the stops so that we don't leave the scars of this emergency embedded in the country's social fabric for generations to come.

 "And, instead, we have an obsession about the fiscal deficit. By both parties. The president:

" 'President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal his seriousness about cutting the budget deficit, administration officials said Monday.' "

"The issue is not the focus on whether the cuts are big or modest. It is that we should be having this conversation--the conversation should be about how to invest more money into an economy to put people back to work.  

"And like an alcoholic family, too many people are pretending like the problem isn't there and enabling the behavior of the addict--meaning, the people addicted to conventional thinking and a mindset that seeks to appease the bond markets and the very economic system that got us into this mess in the first place.

"We have lost our moral bearings. Actually, I would say our political leaders have lost their moral bearings."