The State of the Union address is tonight.

Since I have something better to do (my son’s Cub Scout Pack meeting), I won’t be watching unless Obama drones on after we get home.

Presidents occasionally use visual aids in their State of the Union addresses. (Remember Bill Clinton’s Hillarycare card?) I’m confident you will not see visual aids like this, from Gallup via Doug Ross:

Those are record bad numbers, according to Ross:

… Among the Gallup observations: “As President Barack Obama prepares his annual address to Congress, Americans are broadly dissatisfied with the state of the nation in several specific issue areas, with satisfaction down sharply in some cases since January 2008. However, three issues — the nation’s economy, the size and power of the federal government, and the moral and ethical climate in the country — fit both of these unwelcome criteria.” And with the only response the administration has in the past three years consisting of either printing more money which sends all assets, especially energy, higher in price, or fiscal stimulus of which 90% and more is lost due to inefficiencies and corruption, we don’t see satisfaction rising any time soon.

The second, from the American Enterprise Institute, posits how a venture capital firm might analyze this country’s fiscal situation: