Earlier today a White House official said President Barack Obama will propose a five-year freeze in non-security, discretionary spending during his State of the Union address. Much of the blogosphere and comment boards are already buzzing with speculation that the president's chief concern, the economy, will mean adopting policy that cuts funds from programs which benefit many Americans. Some think the president may "pivot to business" to create more jobs. Peter S. Goodman, for The Huffington Post, believes the president's proposal is nonsense. Here's an excerpt:

The official says the proposal will be part of the president's plans to reduce the deficit that he will outline in Tuesday's primetime address.

The word of the moment is "pivot." As in President Obama, when he addresses the nation tonight to fill us in on how things are going, will continue his supposed pivot toward business and job creation.

This, of course, implies that the president has previously been occupied with something else, a pursuit from which he will now pivot away. Presumably, he's pivoting away from alienating business and depriving the nation of the millions jobs that would surely have been created already had business leaders been courted and appreciated.

Think of this logic played out in movie scene. It is early 2009, and the newly arrived President Obama says something like: "Wall Street chieftains, all is forgiven for trashing the economy. You can keep your bonuses. In fact, here is a huge amount of taxpayer money with no strings attached." (Forget for a moment that this is pretty much what did happen; this is the movie version.) To which a chorus of Wall Street executives replies, "Thank you so much Mr. President! Because of your kindness and affection, we're going to immediately loan lots of money to innovative small business and order them to hire scads of people!"

One niggling question, though: Does this version of events make sense to anyone who is honest about how the world works -- which is to say, anyone besides a bunch of Democratic campaign strategists intent of stealing plays from the Republican playbook?

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