Lamar Smith: “before we hear the President's State of the Union Address, we should remember the last one. Last year the President…”

“before we hear the President's State of the Union Address, we should remember the last one. Last year the President promised America a middle-class tax cut. He delivered the largest tax increase in America's history. Last year the President promised an end of welfare as we know it. He delivered an end to the discussion of welfare before we knew it. Last Year the President promised health care reform. What he delivered were condom commercials. If you compare this President's words and his actions, words won time and time and time again. Tonight the President will come here again. And again he will promise, this time about crime. But the test of his performance is not in his delivery tonight, but in his delivery tomorrow. If the last year was any indication, then America will be returning to President Clinton's rice cake approach to policy: you will find yourself full when he is finished, but hungry before you are home.”