WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007—Adam Hughes, Fiscal Policy Director at OMB Watch, made the following statement in response to President George W. Bush's 2007 State of the Union address: Last night, President Bush spent a small portion of his State of the Union address paying lip service to fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets — about the same amount of time he has committed during his presidency to actually being fiscally responsible. Nonetheless, the President made a number of vague pledges — to balance the annual federal budget, to institute long-term fixes to Medicare and Medicaid, and to "save" an otherwise incredibly stable and successful Social Security program — but provided scant details. The president urged Congress to support all of his broad proposals and to do so without raising any more revenue. Unfortunately, the president still does not understand that this approach just won't work, and given his track record, it is difficult to see his pledges last night as anything more than idle words.