There's no doubt that tonight's State of the Union address will grab most of the day’s headlines as Obama lays out his goals for the coming year. But today is an important one for another reason — it marks the 1,000th day since the United States Senate has passed a budget. While the House has put forth (and passed) its own budget, the Senate has failed to do the same for more than two years.

While the Obama administration is fond of blaming its current woes on a “Do-Nothing Congress,” they are apt to forget that half of the current Congress is controlled by their own party. Today, the “Do-Nothing Democrats” in the Senate have yet again, as Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote, set, "a new standard in dereliction of duty."