I Hope He's Not Lost

The news tonight is that President Obama will call for a large freeze--lasting three years--on domestic spending Wednesday night in his State of the Union Address. Is this a new idea cooked up to please the people who hate him the most? Does he believe that he has the everlasting support of all those who voted for him in 2008 and that they will meekly swallow this while the Pentagon budget goes untouched? He would be wrong in each case. My doubt about him these days does not mean that I have given up on him, but he does need some wins any time now. That health care bill--is that not domestic spending?--needs to be passed and signed or the entire first Obama year will be judged a failure. Where is he right now? And where are we? We cannot be lost.