One of President Bush's campaign promises was the quest for cheap "universal" broadband access to all by 2007, and some are noting that well -- it's 2007 -- and broadband wasn't mentioned once in the President's State of the Union address last week. "Leaving broadband build outs to the big telcos and cablecos an idea that probably passes as strategy for the current administration isn't going to get us to ubiquitous broadband anytime soon," notes GigaOM's Paul Kapustka. Meanwhile, the USF remains largely unreformed and coverage gaps persist, while the FCC puts their faith in BPL, large mergers and deregulation. Unfortunately, neither party seems to be coming up with any truly interesting or innovative ideas.