President Obama’s first year in office has been all about saying one thing and doing the other.  Hoosiers are tired of the rhetoric and ready for solutions.  We are concerned about spending, the increasing role of government in our lives and the lack of focus on job creation.  Our sincere hope is that tonight the words were not meant to be a distraction but instead a call for action on all three issues.

Obama’s embrace of a spending freeze is either a realization of limits of government intervention in the marketplace or an Evan Bayh like attempt to soften the liberal edges of his agenda in the face of declining poll numbers.