The Hill News

The media is obsessed with the senior-prom nature of this year’s State of the Union address. My friends in press shops on Capitol Hill say that without a doubt, the most frequently asked question from the media this week is: “Who is your boss’s date for the speech?”

With two unpaid-for wars going on, a federal budget deficit and debt threatening to bankrupt our nation, a seemingly never-ending Bush recession putting millions of Americans out of work, a renewal of secret meetings between Congress and major corporations given unfettered access to set policies that enhance their bottom line while endangering public health, all the media can focus on is who will be the SOTU prom king and queen.

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