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Last year I prepared for the SOTU by speculating about the “fairy tales” the President would tell about fiscal responsibility, fiscal sustainability and the debt/deficit problem.

President Obama said on Monday that his proposal would bring taxes for millionaires in line with those paid by the middle class. This “is not class warfare; it’s math,” he stated. But he could have easily been referring to math that hasn’t favored working-class and middle-class households for most of the past 30 years.

They used to say that the money wealthy people spent would trickle down to everyone else, but nobody was really buying it. I'm not sure anyone's buying this either:

"Let's define rich," Scarborough suggested. "So, what's the cutoff? Is it $500,000?"

I didn't think that anyone — not even her fellow Republicans — could top Michelle Bachmann's 2008 interview with Chris Matthews, in which she accused then-candidate Barack Obama — and certain members of Congress — of being "anti-American," and urged the media to "do a penetrating expose" certain people in Congress " and find out, 'Are they pro-America or anti-America?'"

I should have known better. Florida Republican Rep. Allen West has added to his impressive record of bizzare statements with stunner that makes Michelle Bachmann seem almost rational. This week, West warned constituents that he has "heard" that up to 80 of the 190 Democrats in the House are Communist Party members.

We have a lot of work to do in America: jobs to create, infrastructure to build, clean energy to generate, homeowners to save, teachers to hire and student debt to retire.

There's a lot of discussion right now about the "Buffett Rule." This is the proposed tax rule that says people who make more than $1 million a year should at least pay as much of

No doubt about it, large unlimited donations are flowing into SuperPACs from rich individuals and corporations aimed at influencing who is elected at all levels of government in 2012.