Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” that the State of the Union address is sort of like Washington’s Groundhog Day, in that no one actually expects President Barack Obama’s promises to come true. (VIDEO: RNC’s Priebus, DNC’s Wasserman Schultz Battle Over Midterms, ‘War On Women,’ Ebola)
PRIEBUS: The president will try to tell people that Americans aren’t struggling, the economy is great. We’ve got the worst labor participation rate since Jimmy Carter has been president. And so he is going to spin tonight, tell people that the economy is great. He’s going to play a good round of small ball. He will tell people that he is for bipartisanship while he kills things like the Keystone pipeline, the 40-hour work week.
Unfortunately… tonight is sort of like Groundhog Day for us here in Washington D.C.: no one really thinks that the president is going to follow through on anything that he says.