"Vanishing Act!"

After "American Idol" was over, my wife and I got involved in "America's Got Talent", a variety talent show with a million dollar prize and a show in Las Vegas for the winner. The show is entertaining and showcases all types of performers; singers, dancers, dare-devils and magicians are just a few of the different acts one can see. I like magicians, but you don't see too many of them nowadays. I enjoyed watching David Copperfield and Doug Henning, as their tricks were always large scale and impressive. The king of magicians was Houdini, who was not only a great magician, but also the world's greatest escape artist. He was the first man to escape from a straight jacket while hanging upside down. He was chained into a trunk and dropped into a river, while in a straight jacket and escaped! Houdini was amazing; that man could really pull off a trick until his appendix ruptured and killed him while performing an escape from a water tank; sometimes a trick can go wrong. Houdini was always trying new illusions to entertain his audience so his act wouldn't get "stale"; after all, nobody wants to see the same act over and over again.

Tonight, our President, Barack Obama, will be addressing a joint session of Congress to explain his "new" economic program for job growth. This is a very dramatic forum for this type of speech. Joint sessions of Congress are usually reserved for a declaration of war, or State of the Union messages. This will supply Mr. Obama with a Democrat cheering section; he may need one. He has promised something that will change the course of America's unemployment dilemma. Last month, America didn't add ONE NEW JOB to the economy, and today's report on new unemployment claims have risen again. The "Summer of Recovery" we were promised last year didn't show up. The leaks I have heard about tonight's speech have said it is more spending by the federal government; $300,000,000,000 more. This is another Stimulus, regardless of the name he may use.

Mr. Obama isn't Houdini, although he may be trying to trick us into spending more money that we don't have on a plan that hasn't worked for the last three years! Tonight we will see how much of an "escape artist" Barack Obama really is. We will see if he can create an illusion that will fool America one more time, or use the same old tricks he pulled off in the past.

America, we must not fall into another attempt at failed economic theory from a president who has failed consistently since his first day in office. It is time for Americans to be the "magicians" and make Barack Obama "Disappear"!