Since the Massachusetts special election, every day seems to bring a new Obama con; some grand and empty gesture made in an attempt to fool the American people into thinking the president is listening and moving away from his radical agenda toward a more reasonable method of governing. He's not and the latest proof is the news late Monday that he will ask Congress to freeze spending for some domestic programs for three years beginning in 2011. (source) While that may sound like a step in the right direction, it's just more of the same smoke and mirrors for which this administration has become famous.

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The freeze would affect $447 billion in spending, or 17% of the total federal budget, and would likely be overtaken by growth in the untouched areas of discretionary spending. (source) So while those who only hear the promise to freeze spending in Wednesday night's State of the Union address and believe the $250 billion "saved" over the coming decade is an improvement, the reality is that that money and more will be spent in other areas not affected by the so-called freeze.

And it's still not clear how much the president's "Middle Class Initiatives" proposed Monday afternoon would cost or where that money would come from. (source)

Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), reacted to the latest gestures from the White House by saying, "Given Washington Democrats' unprecedented spending binge, this is like announcing you're going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest." (source) Mr. Steel was being kind. It's actually like announcing the diet while still shoving the pies in your mouth. And they're someone else's pies.

Like more traditional con artists who give you a small piece of gold to get you to invest in the non-existent gold mine, President Obama's bait will turn out to be nothing more than gold painted rocks. And Wednesday night's address promises to be a sack full of them.