What’s that mantra about repeating something often enough until it becomes a truth? Maybe that’s what top Democrats are trying to do in regard to the massive spending problem we have in our country right now. Pay no attention to the trillion-dollar deficit over the budget line!

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Steny Hoyer have all said recently that we don’t have a spending problem. This week, Senator Tom Harkin publicly promoted the delusion, saying, “I want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem.”

The State of the Union Address 2013 was on tonight, but if you missed it, have no fear -- I’m here to recap it for you. It can be hard to keep everything the president says straight, especially when he says things that directly contradict with other things he’s said or done in the past. So just for fun, let’s take some of his best lines of the night and match them up against his record, shall we?

There were too many shady statements to mention them all here or I’d bore you as silly as if you had actually watched the speech. For the sake of brevity, let’s just go over the top 13 things he said that made me snicker, guffaw, or face-palm.

Newly energized by his reelection and the recent budget battle, President Obama sounded confident and optimistic in tonight's State of the Union address. But the most powerful part of his address came at the very end, when he mentioned Hadiya Pendelton, the 15-year-old majorette who marched in the Inaugural parade -- and then was shot to death a week later in Chicago. 

Comedian and frequent Obama supporter Chris Rock showed up on Capitol Hill Wednesday to champion the president’s gun control agenda. It’s unclear whether or not President Obama supports the second amendment, or thinks guns should be banned (to some extent at least), but Rock apparently thinks it’s our job to listen to the daddy-in-chief.

During this morning’s press conference, Chris Rock said:

I am just here to support the President of the United States. President of the United States is our boss, but he is also... you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen, and when you don't it will usually bite you on the ass later on. So, I’m here to support the President.

At the Inauguration luncheon on Monday, Michelle Obama's eye roll directed toward Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner was the ocular expression heard 'round the world, and today, there's new insight as to what exactly might have inspired the First Lady's reaction. The journalistic geniuses over at Inside Edition hired a lip reader to decode the whole situation, and you won't believe what he uncovered. Supposedly, FLOTUS rolled her eyes because Boehner had made a joke about President Obama's smoking habit.

The Presidential Inauguration has snagged some of the world's hottest performers -- including Katy Perry, Usher, James Taylor, Beyonce, and Kelly Clarkson to name a few. Kelly just lit the Twitterverse on fire with her version of "My Country Tis of Thee" -- and her new blonde hairdo (which I think suits her very well).

Kelly, who made it no secret that she was a Ron Paul supporter, started off a little shaky -- literally, you can only imagine how bad it sucks to be outside singing in the Washington D.C. cold. Gotta move that Inauguration to April, I say!

President Obama is now officially sworn in for a second term and oh, what a difference four years makes.

Not only was today's inauguration ceremony much smaller than his two-million people inauguration four years ago, but the president  now faces Americans who are beaten down by the recession, as well as a deeply divided Congress.

Can the president turn things around in his second term? That's what we're asking you today, in honor of the inauguration. How do you think President Obama's second term will go? Leave your thoughts in the comments and let us know.

Today, in a private ceremony in the White House's Blue Room today, President Obama officially took the oath of office for his second term, surrounded only by press, First Lady Michelle Obama, his daughters, Malia and Sasha (who adorably said afterward, "“Good job, Daddy! You didn't mess up!"), and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Because the Constitution states that the president must be sworn in on the 20th, but today happened to be a Sunday, it was decided that they'd go the brief, private route before the full-blown public affair tomorrow. Fair enough. But that hasn't stopped some tongues from clucking that today's small, quiet ceremony will make tomorrow's 2013 Inauguration agenda less special -- and was fitting, being that we've got "downsized" expectations of the POTUS' second term. Pfft, I don't think so!

Make no mistake: Tomorrow's festivities will be just as exciting and worth watching as the first time President Obama took the oath in 2009 ...