President Obama to Propose Budget Freeze and Earmark Ban in State of the Union Speech

More triangulation by the left-wing President who moves to the right.

Pursuing a path of deficit reduction and government reform, President Obama will tonight in his State of the Union address call for a ban on earmarks and he will propose an overall budget freeze, ABC News has learned.

The proposals come as the president prepares to tackle the deficit and debt and as he faces a House of Representatives in Republican hands, many of whose members include those affiliated with the Tea Party who may be willing to embrace both moves.

The president will propose some new spending in certain areas that address the speech’s theme of “How We Win the Future”: innovation, education and infrastructure. But those increases will be proposed as part of an overall budget freeze, which given the annual rate of growth is often seen in Washington, DC, budgeting as a cut.

The FY 2011 budget was $3.8 trillion. Last year President Obama proposed a three-year hard freeze on non-security discretionary spending, to save $250 billion over the next decade; this would be much broader.

A little too little and a little too late, especially for the 62 Democratic Representatives that lost their seats in the House last November. President Obama has never vetoed any spending bill, nor has he vetoed any earmark containing spending bill. And, the President will propose additonal spending tonight.

I guess Obama is finally acknowledging the Tea Party but this proposal is WEAK TEA.