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Jobs, energy, values top issues in Obama's State of the Union address

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a miserable failure .

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excuse me while I yawn...

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So let's see... the President will give a speech - and since he is a pretty good speaker it will likely be well delivered.

The GOP will politely applaud when they have to (like when he thanks the troops or something like that) and glare at everything else.

Then, right on cue, the Right's heads will collectively explode across the nation as they fill the airwaves with hate and vitriol while complaining how nothing ever gets done in Washington (they keep saying no), where's the jobs (the GOP refuses to back any jobs bills) and how Barack Hussein Obama (they gotta mention the president's scary-sounding middle name to keep the dog whistles to the base going) is 'destroying' America.

Meanwhile, the GOP will fight to the last lemming to defend tax cuts for the rich, refuse to support any bills that increase revenues (while howling about the ever increasing debt), and point blank refuse to lift a finger to pass any bills that will help any working class Americans, you know, the ones they say they represent while simultaneously gorging at the trough of their 1% slave masters.

Finally, they'll hit us with the tired but boring line: Washington's not working.

I wonder why.....?

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The conservative Job Destroyers have a lot to answer for.

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I like that he indicated he will use his powers to their full extent to achieve his agenda if Congress continues to obfuscate.

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I like that he indicated he will use his powers to their full extent to achieve his agenda if Congress continues to obfuscate.

Governing more and more just by Executive Order is starting to sound pretty dictatorial and a step to really start down a path that should never really be tolerated or encouraged in a country that truly values it freedom

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"Governing more and more just by Executive Order is starting to sound pretty dictatorial and a step to really start down a path that should never really be tolerated or encouraged in a country that truly values it freedom"

You can't bemoan that and simaltaneously cheer on an party who's one and only goal is to obstruct without question the ruling party, as you have done since Mr Obama was inaugeurated. You're all part of the same problem, a stale two-party "democracy" with worsening radical partisanship.

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Sail, bush 2 issued lots of them, often for the same or similar reasons.

Were they ok then but not now?

Why?

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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) delivered the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address.

Q: Who cares? He's only another conservative job destroyer.

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You can't bemoan that and simaltaneously cheer on an party who's one and only goal is to obstruct without question the ruling party,

I can cheer for party that firmly believes that since Mr. Obama was elected President that he set the nation on the wrong track with his policies and has done what it can to reverse the track he started us on.

Direction of Country RCP Average Right Direction 28.3 Wrong Track 65.3

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"I can cheer for party "

Oh you can cheer for who you want, but it's intellectually bankrupt to scream and howl opposition to everything when you have absolutely no program whatsoever yourself, as is the Republican position.

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Was this speech from 2010 or 2011? All three sound the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UDDRiGIUYQo

RR

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America is in dire need of an indepent presidant that has no ties to either Democrats or Republicans

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Obama calls this the Buffett rule, named for billionaire Warren Buffett, who has said it's unfair that his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does.

Looks like Obama's teleprompter forgot to tell him Buffett's company, Berkshire, still owes around $1 billion in back taxes.

RR

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Oh you can cheer for who you want, but it's intellectually bankrupt to scream and howl opposition to everything when you have absolutely no program whatsoever yourself, as is the Republican position.

You'll be here quite while if you go to the link for a detailed program it's called A Roadmap for America's Future.

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

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Direction of Country RCP Average Right Direction 28.3 Wrong Track 65.3

Yes - but why?

Obama approval rating 47%

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Congress approval rating 11%

http://www.gallup.com/poll/151628/Congress-Ends-2011-Record-Low-Approval.aspx

Obama's approval rating is absent those Democrats who would like to see him act more aggressively. Look for it to rise from here into the 50s - and remember, a president with an approval rating in the 50s has never lost an election.

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Then there are the rebuttals!

Gingrich was as clear and concise as ever:

You always have to wonder when Obama speaks, which country he thinks he's talking to. You also have to wonder what his source material is. You can really understand him best when you understand that he is a Saul Alinsky radical who taught radicalism in Chicago.

Translation: he's not an American, and even if he were, he's a RADICAL American who espouses something you don't understand but sounds scary.

Rick?

Over the last three years, he has made it clear that his values are not our values and he does not understand what it takes to make America great again.

Much clearer: he's not an American, period.

Mitt?

Obama offers more of the same: more taxes, more spending and more regulation.

Mitt at least offers some solid criticism - too bad it came in the form of a "prebuttal." Nothing like critiquing something you have not yet heard! Good thing Mitt favors the opposite, and balancing the budget and increasing military spending and, quite possibly, Christmas every day. Every day! Imagine that!

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The sad thing is America had a choice.

The Right and the Left could have worked together to implement even stronger healthcare reform like the Public Option....but they didn't and what's ironic is the fact Republicans could have championed their healthcare reform that Rmoney designed and really could have easily won in November.....they could have taken the wind from Obama on that one by not stirring up their base to be against their own ideas....and Rmoney or Newt could have been the saviors of the GOP.

Sounds lovely but in reality, when did the GOP ever care about ordinary Americans??

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As predicted, the GOPers invent their own version of reality which includes the failed and well debunked notion of suppy-side, trickle-down, or whatever they are calling it these days.

Meanwhile their real agenda of protecting the super-rich like Romney from the burden of taxation is painfully obvious to anyone north of a room temperature IQ.

it's amazing - the best the Republicans could do was Mitch Daniels - the guy who was first budget director for the busH administration that took America's surplus down the drain and is now governor of Indiana where the economic outlook isn’t exactly bright.

An get this quote from the guy - "The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy," he said. It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach...yada yada yada....

Oil is outdated like you are, Gov Daniels. Oil is not safe or clean. Ask Nigeria about pipelines and how they leak all over the local communities there and how Big Oil keeps it all under the carpet.

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@RomeoR

Looks like Obama's teleprompter forgot to

blah blah blah. A man's impotence and desperation are easy to spot when he resorts to endlessly regurgitating cheap redneck smears he knows to be false. Like Al Gore supposedly claiming he invented the internet. Or that Obama was educated in a madrassa. Real sidesplitters, and it amuses the far right in America to see the liberal pansies get their knickers in a twist over their concern for honest debate.

It doesn't matter if accusations are true, does it? If you throw crap at the wall often enough, some of it will eventually become part of the structure. It's an easy substitute for actually working through the issues. You might try posting a reasonable opinion once in a while, instead of degrading the discourse with infantile name calling.

But I guess willful ignorance and deliberate falsehoods are central tenets of the current power base within the GOP. After all, they're flocking to Newt.

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The funniest thing Obama said in his State-of-the-Stump speech was America "is back."

Heh, his statement proves he's delusional.

RR

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Real sidesplitters, and it amuses the far right in America to see the liberal pansies get their knickers in a twist over their concern for honest debate.

Is that how it all looks to non-Americans? Hillary supporters are the ones who started the so-called Birther movement.

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Plasticmonkey, Romeo’s agenda, like that of almost every other conservative and GOP politician out there, is to chuck dirt at the president they detest with every cell of their beings.

Meanwhile, there’s 9 million more people out of work thanks to the recession that started under bush, the guy THEY VOTED FOR, and all they can do is throw dirt.

You’d think they’d be interested in backing the odd jobs bill once in a while.

But hey, that’s like expecting a conservative American to have a basic understanding of their own country’s politics – never going to happen, and as usual have to be told what’s really going on in their country by foreigners.

But of course they’ll deny that almost as many times as they are8 proven wrong again and again – by non-Americans

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Daniels is a moderate, an excellent choice to deliver the rebuttal to the Obama regime.

Too true. Also sadly true is that such a figure could not be nominated in today's Republican Party. He surely thought this through thoroughly - his name was bandied about broadly as a candidate before he wisely demurred, no doubt with this in mind: Any Republican candidate in this atmosphere must declare that east is west and up is down and black is ... well, foreign. Any candidate who truly spoke his mind, who truthfully offered considered prescriptions for the ills facing America, would be hissed off the stage well before Iowa.

I'm glad he's keeping his powder dry, though. Someone will need to reconstruct the wreckage of the GOP come next winter.

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Too true. Also sadly true is that such a figure could not be nominated in today's Republican Party. He surely thought this through thoroughly - his name was bandied about broadly as a candidate before he wisely demurred, no doubt with this in mind:

Actually Mitch Daniels has a had a pretty messy up and down marriage and his wife didn't want him or her to have to be put through the Main Stream Media grinder. Can't say I blame the man.

But the Huffington Post's Jon Ward reports the biggest factor holding him back from the race is actually Daniels' wife, Cheri Daniels, who does not want the media snooping into their marriage history.

A Daniels adviser told Ward that the Indiana governor "would like to do it" and would "have a decent chance of getting the nomination." But Cheri is the "last hurdle" to his decision, Ward write. That's because in 1993, Cheri left Mitch with their four young kids to marry another man in California. Four years later, she came back to Indiana, and the Daneils remarried.

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unreconstructed - "which touted crony capitalism like Solyndra as an example of the kind of unicorn green energy business that would turn the economy around."

LOL!!

Funny to see you expect President Obama to do everything perfectly, and it's no surprise at all you feel a little let down.

The noteable point is, of course, that you feel let down because you did expect perfecton, or something close.

That's 180 deg. different from what Libs expect from the GOP - we expect 150% failure from the GOP and conservatives.

Libs expect them to be anti-American.

Libs expect them to be put the working man last.

Libs expect them to be cater to the rich elites' every demand.

And get it every time, thanks to people like you who vote for the clowns! :-)

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Daniel’s intellectually lazy response to Obama’s address…..really, the Republicans are an embarrassment to the Republican party.

And the GOP self-inflicted beat down continues.

Honestly, this hyper partisanship is getting tiring but I’m truly appreciate of the Tea Party and everyone involved in that movement for putting a bomb under their parties.

The GOP has had 3 winners for 3 different primaries AFTER over 20 debates: they're too splintered to be able to make this work. But they are so used to manufacturing outrage that they see purpose in surrounding every important issue in ambient noise. The only way I could have respect for these guys again is for them to come out and say, "Look, we've got nothing. We're wrong and we're going to get out of the way now."

Oh, and if this week’s GOP front runner Gingrich thinks its bad now, imagine when someone asks him how his mistress during his second marriage is good enough to be First Lady.

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President Obama gave a superb address last night.

The highlight was watching Mitch McConnell stewing in his juices.

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Pretty amazing......

in ConservativeLand, moral bankruptcy is a virtue, ignorace of basic facts is worn as a badge of honor, and opinions are things the shrieking heads on Fox News give you.

But, credit needs to be given where credit is due - it takes being a True Conservative to think there's nothing wrong with this attitude.

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The Republican have no vison for the people, what they see is an America that they can cash in on, make more money is their moto. No matter if the people work themself to death, a modern day slave.That's the system they would like to continue in America.The have to recoginze the world is different, their way of life cannot continue as before, in order for the people to enjoy a good life, they have to give up some of their ambitions of hoarding. (The wealth) This kind of mindset foster war and neverending suffering in the world. All the hoarders in Washington have to get up. (Out)

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Obama is simply finding that his vision is unworkable because his vision is unlimited government. The world has changed and that scaling down is the only option that resource limitations allow. With the long term economic contraction, the question becomes one of how much government can citizens afford which then makes us examine what the role of government should be. Compounding the problem is that those in power, the 1%, are not willing to suffer a lower standard of living along with the rest of us, so they demand a greater percentage of the contracting economic pie in order to maintain their opulence.

It is very unlikely that the current level of government spending can be maintained, much less increased. It is currently takes a very high percentage of the economic pie by historic standards. The reality is that taking more of the income of the wealthy would not even solve the problem of deficit spending and politicians only do what the public demands and most of what they hear is give me, give me, give me. This is reflected in the failed struggle that is now taking place in Washington.

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his vision is unlimited government

This is reflected in neither his words nor his deeds. Just because he disagrees with the tea party and libertarian elements in the GOP does not make him a proponent of "unlimited government". That's the kind of extremist baloney that has made dialog between the two sides very difficult.

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it will be obama's last sotu.

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Twelve million fewer Americans watched the 2012 sotu , compared with 09. the writing is one the wall.

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Obama's SOTU was a rehash, at times word for word, of his previous teleprompted tut-tuttings.

See for yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDRiGIUYQo&feature=player_embedded

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Twelve million fewer Americans watched the 2012 sotu , compared with 09.

Not a good sign considering he was on every network.

RR

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Ruh-roh. No post-sotu bounce in the polls for the food stamp president.

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