Conner Dwinell writes for The College Conservative. In a new post he examines the recent state of the union address by President Obama.

A Lesson in Contradictions: The State of the Union

This year, President Obama decided to approach his State of the Union address with contradictions rather than content.  From his claims of increased economic growth, to his assertion for the need to take further steps to improve the environment, our unemployment numbers and benefits, and the distribution of “affordable” healthcare, this speech was almost (unbelievably) more inconsistent than others have been in the past.

On the one hand, the President made several claims that Congress “should put bills on his desk” to increase American jobs and boost economic growth among other things, but in the same section makes very clear that he can and will take steps without the aid of Congress to fix said problems through the use of executive order.  So where does the blame lie?  If Congress should have been acting and has not, then surely the blame lies with them, unless the President (who is ironically now focused on his “economic inequality” agenda) did not act to the full extent of his power to rectify the problem.

While I don’t condone the over-use of executive powers in any way, by his own logic, President Obama is at the very least equally to blame for the issues regarding American unemployment if he has not changed his policies either.  While it should be evident that his solution of using executive orders to “put Americans back to work” is a disaster and an over-stepping of powers by the executive branch, the flaw in his argument was so obvious that I was amazed it made its way into the speech at all.