gop responses to sotu 2011

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In 2 years, Obama & Democrats BORROW & SPEND pushed US

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GOP Response to SOTU, by Chairman of

House Budget Committee, the Honorable Pau

Ryan (R!"#

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Budget Committee

Conta&t'

Remars of Congressman Paul Ryan (R!"# ) *s Prepared for

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House Budget Committee Hearing Room, !ashington, +C

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Good e%ening$ "1m Congressman Paul Ryan from anes%ille,

!is&onsin ) and Chairman here at the House Budget Committee

President Obama 2ust addressed a Congressional &hamber filled

3ith many ne3 fa&es$ One fa&e 3e did not see tonight 3as that of

our friend and &olleague, Congress3oman Gabrielle Giffords of*ri4ona$ !e all miss Gabby and her &heerful spirit5 and 3e are

praying for her return to the House Chamber$

6arlier this month, President Obama spoe mo%ingly at a

memorial e%ent for the si7 people 3ho died on that %iolentmorning in Tu&son$ Still, there are no 3ords that &an lift the

sorro3 that no3 engulfs the families and friends of the fallen$


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!hat 3e &an do is assure them that the nation is praying for

them5 that, in the 3ords of the Psalmist, the 8ord heals the

broen hearted and binds up their 3ounds5 and that o%er time

gra&e 3ill repla&e grief$

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*s Gabby &ontinues to mae en&ouraging progress, 3e musteep her and the others in our thoughts as 3e attend to the 3or

no3 before us$

Tonight, the President fo&used a lot of attention on our e&onomy

in general ) and on our defi&it and debt in parti&ular$

He 3as right to do so, and some of his 3ords 3ere reassuring$ *s

Chairman of the House Budget Committee, " assure you that 3e

3ant to 3or 3ith the President to restrain federal spending$

"n one of our first a&ts in the ne3 ma2ority, House Republi&ans

%oted to &ut Congress1s o3n budget$ *nd 2ust today, the House

%oted to restore the spending dis&ipline that !ashington sorely

needs$


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The reason is simple$

* fe3 years ago, redu&ing spending 3as important$ Today, it1s

imperati%e$ Here1s 3hy$

!e fa&e a &rushing burden of debt$ The debt 3ill soon e&lipse ou

entire e&onomy, and gro3 to &atastrophi& le%els in the years

ahead$

On this &urrent path, 3hen my three &hildren ) 3ho are no3 :, ;

and < years old ) are raising their o3n &hildren, the =ederal

go%ernment 3ill double in si4e, and so 3ill the ta7es they pay$

>o e&onomy &an sustain su&h high le%els of debt and ta7ation$

The ne7t generation 3ill inherit a stagnant e&onomy and a

diminished &ountry$

=ranly, it1s one of my greatest &on&erns as a parent ) and "

no3 many of you feel the same 3ay$


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Our debt is the produ&t of a&ts by many presidents and many

Congresses o%er many years$ >o one person or party is

responsible for it$

There is no doubt the President &ame into offi&e fa&ing a se%ere

fis&al and e&onomi& situation$

Unfortunately, instead of restoring the fundamentals of e&onomi

gro3th, he engaged in a stimulus spending spree that not only

failed to deli%er on its promise to &reate 2obs, but also plunged use%en deeper into debt$

The fa&ts are &lear' Sin&e taing offi&e, President Obama

has signed into la3 spending in&reases of nearly

-.? for domesti& go%ernment agen&ies ) an


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*ll of this ne3 go%ernment spending 3as sold as Ain%estment$

et after t3o years, the unemployment rate remains

abo%e D? and go%ernment has added o%er EFtrillion to our debt$

Then the President and his party made matters e%en

3orse, by &reating a ne3 openended health &are

entitlement$

!hat 3e already no3 about the President1s health &are la3 is

this' Costs are going up, premiums are rising, and

millions of people 3ill lose the &o%erage they&urrently ha%e$ ob &reation is being stifled by all

of its ta7es, penalties, mandates and fees$

Businesses and unions from around the &ountry are asing the

Obama *dministration for 3ai%ers from the mandates$!ashington should not be in the business of pi&ing 3inners and

losers$ The President mentioned the need for regulatory reform

to ease the burden on *meri&an businesses$ !e agree ) and 3e

thin his health &are la3 3ould be a great pla&e to start$


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8ast 3ee, House Republi&ans %oted for a full repeal of

this la3, as 3e pledged to do, and 3e 3ill 3or torepla&e it 3ith fis&ally responsible, patient&entered

reforms that a&tually redu&e &osts and e7pand

&o%erage$

Health &are spending is dri%ing the e7plosi%egro3th of our debt$ *nd the President1s la3 is

a&&elerating our &ountry to3ard banrupt&y$

Our debt is out of &ontrol$ !hat 3as a fis&al&hallenge is no3 a fis&al &risis$

!e &annot deny it5 instead 3e must, as *meri&ans, &onfront it

responsibly$

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*nd that is e7a&tly 3hat Republi&ans pledge to do$

*meri&ans are septi&al of both politi&al parties, and thatsepti&ism is 2ustified ) espe&ially 3hen it &omes to spending$ So

hold all of us a&&ountable$

"n this %ery room, the House 3ill produ&e, debate, and ad%an&e a

budget$ 8ast year ) in an unpre&edented failure )Congress &hose not to pass, or e%en propose a

budget$ The spending spree &ontinued un&he&ed

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!e o3e you a better &hoi&e and a different %ision$

Our forth&oming budget is our obligation to you ) to sho3 you

ho3 3e intend to do things differently ho3 3e 3ill &utspending to get the debt do3n help &reate 2obs and

prosperity and reform go%ernment programs$ "f 3e


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a&t soon, and if 3e a&t responsibly, people in and near

retirement 3ill be prote&ted$

These budget debates are not 2ust about the programs of

go%ernment5 they1re also about the purpose of go%ernment$

So "1d lie to share 3ith you the prin&iples that guide us$ They

are an&hored in the 3isdom of the founders5 in the spirit of the+e&laration of "ndependen&e5 and in the 3ords of the *meri&an

Constitution$

They ha%e to do 3ith the importan&e of limited

go%ernment5 and 3ith the blessing of selfgo%ernment$

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!e belie%e go%ernment1s role is both %ital and limited

) to defend the nation from atta& and pro%ide for the

&ommon defense to se&ure our borders to prote&t


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inno&ent life to uphold our la3s and Constitutional

rights to ensure domesti& tranuility and eual

opportunity and to help pro%ide a safety net forthose 3ho &annot pro%ide for themsel%es$

!e belie%e that the go%ernment has an important role

to &reate the &onditions that promote

entrepreneurship, up3ard mobility, and indi%idualresponsibility$

!e belie%e, as our founders did, that Athe pursuit of

happiness depends upon indi%idual liberty5 and

indi%idual liberty reuires limited go%ernment$

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8imited go%ernment also means effe&ti%e go%ernment$ !hen

go%ernment taes on too many tass, it usually

doesn1t do any of them %ery 3ell$ "t1s no


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*nd during the last t3o years, that is e7a&tly 3ha

3e ha%e gotten ) along 3ith re&ord defi&its and

debt ) to the point 3here the President is no3urging Congress to in&rease the debt limit$

!e belie%e the days of business as usual must &ome to an end$

!e hold to a &ouple of simple &on%i&tions' 6ndless

borro3ing is not a strategy5 spending &uts ha%e to&ome first$

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Our nation is approa&hing a tipping point$

!e are at a moment, 3here if go%ernment1s gro3th is left

un&he&ed and un&hallenged, *meri&a1s best &entury 3ill be

&onsidered our past &entury$ This is a future in 3hi&h 3e 3illtransform our so&ial safety net into a hammo&, 3hi&h lulls able

bodied people into li%es of &ompla&en&y and dependen&y$


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+epending on bureau&ra&y to foster inno%ation,

&ompetiti%eness, and 3ise &onsumer &hoi&es has

ne%er 3ored ) and it 3on1t 3or no3$

!e need to &hart a ne3 &ourse$

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Speaing &andidly, as one &iti4en to another' !e still ha%e time

but not mu&h time$ "f 3e &ontinue do3n our &urrent path, 3e

no3 3hat our future 3ill be$

ust tae a loo at 3hat1s happening to Gree&e, "reland, the

United Iingdom and other nations in 6urope$ They didn1t a&t

soon enough5 and no3 their go%ernments ha%e been for&ed to

impose painful austerity measures' large benefit

&uts to seniors and huge ta7 in&reases one%erybody$


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Their day of re&oning has arri%ed$ Ours is around the &orner$

That is 3hy 3e must a&t no3$

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Some people 3ill ba& a3ay from this &hallenge$ But " see this

&hallenge as an opportunity to rebuild 3hat 8in&oln &alled the

A&entral ideas of the Republi&$

!e belie%e a rene3ed &ommitment to limited

go%ernment 3ill unsha&le our e&onomy and &reate

millions of ne3 2obs and opportunities for all people,

of e%ery ba&ground, to su&&eed and prosper$ Underthis approa&h, the spirit of initiati%e ) not politi&al

&lout ) determines 3ho su&&eeds$

Jillions of families ha%e fallen on hard times not

be&ause of our ideals of free enterprise ) but be&ause

our leaders failed to li%e up to those ideals5 be&ause of

poor de&isions made in !ashington and !all Street


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These are not easy times, but *meri&a is an e7&eptional nation$ "all the &hapters of human history, there has ne%er been anything

uite lie *meri&a$ The *meri&an story has been &herished,

ad%an&ed, and defended o%er the &enturies$

*nd it no3 falls to this generation to pass on to our &hildren anation that is stronger, more %ibrant, more de&ent, and better

than the one 3e inherited$

Than you and good night$

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Full Text: Rep. Michelle Bachmann delivers

TEAPARTY Response to SOT

"uesday, *anuary 2+, 2%% - %./0 p)m)

Good e%ening, my name is Congress3oman Ji&hele Ba&hmann from

Jinnesotas :th +istri&t$

T3o years ago, 3hen Bara& Obama be&ame our President,unemployment 3as ;$< per&ent and our national debt stood at 3hat

seemed lie a staggering E0/$: trillion dollars$


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!e 3ondered 3hether the President 3ould &ut spending, redu&e the

defi&it and implement real 2ob&reating poli&ies$

Unfortunately, the Presidents strategy for re&o%ery 3as to

spend a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus program, fueled

by borro3ed money$

The !hite House promised us that all the spending 3ould eep

unemployment under < per&ent$

>ot only did that plan fail to deli%er, but 3ithin three months

the national 2obless rate spied to D$@ per&ent$ *nd sadly, ithasnt been lo3er for -/ straight months$ !hile the

go%ernment gre3, 3e lost more than - million 2obs$

8et me sho3 you a &hart$ CH*RTQ

Here are unemployment rates o%er the past ten years$ "n O&tober -//0,

our national unemployment rate 3as at .$F per&ent$ "n -//< it 3as at :$per&ent$ But, 2ust eight months after President Obama promised lo3er

unemployment, that rate spied to a staggering 0/$0 per&ent$

Today, unemployment is at D$@ per&ent 3ith about @//,///

ne3 &laims e%ery 3ee$

*fter the E;// billion bailout, the trilliondollar stimulus,

and the E@0/ billion spending bill 3ith o%er D,///

earmars, many of you implored !ashington to please stop spendingmoney 3e dont ha%e$


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But, instead of &utting, 3e sa3 an unpre&edented e7plosion of

go%ernment spending and debt, unlie anything 3e ha%e seen inthe history of our &ountry$

CH*RTQ

+efi&its 3ere una&&eptably high under President Bush, but they

e7ploded under President Obamas dire&tion, gro3ing the

national debt by an astounding EF$0 trilliondollars$

!hat did 3e buyM

"nstead of a leaner, smarter go%ernment, 3e bought a bureau&ra&y

that tells us 3hi&h light bulbs to buy, and 3hi&h 3ill put

0:,.// "RS agents in &harge of poli&ing President Obamas

health&are bill$

ObamaCare mandates and penalties 3ill for&e many 2ob

&reators to stop offering health insuran&e altogether, unless

yours is one of the morethan--- pri%ileged &ompanies or

unions that has re&ei%ed a go%ernment 3ai%er$

"n the end, unless 3e fully repeal ObamaCare, a nation that &urrently

en2oys the 3orlds best health&are may be for&ed to rely on go%ernment

run &o%erage that 3ill ha%e a de%astating impa&t on our national debt

for generations to &ome$

=or t3o years President Obama made promises 2ust lie the

ones 3e heard him mae tonight$ et still 3e ha%e high


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unemployment, de%alued housing pri&es and the &ost of

gasoline is syro&eting$

Here are a fe3 suggestions for fi7ing our e&onomy'

The President &ould stop the 6P* from imposing a 2ob

destroying &apandtrade system$

The President &ould support a Balan&ed Budget

*mendment$

The President &ould agree to an energy poli&y that

in&reases *meri&an energy produ&tion and redu&es our

dependen&e on foreign oil$

The President &ould also turn ba& some of the 0F-

regulations put in pla&e in the last t3o years, many of

3hi&h 3ill &ost our e&onomy E0// million or more$

*nd, the President should repeal ObamaCare and support

free maret solutions lie medi&al malpra&ti&e reform and

allo3 all *meri&ans to buy any health&are poli&y they lie

any3here in the United States$

!e need to start maing things again in this &ountry, and 3e&an do that by redu&ing the ta7 and regulatory burdens on

2ob &reators$


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*meri&a 3ill ha%e the highest &orporate ta7 rate in the 3orld$ 8oo no

further to see 3hy 2obs are mo%ing o%erseas$

But, thans to you, theres reason to hope that real spending &uts are

&oming$ 8ast >o%ember you 3ent to the polls and %oted out big

spending politi&ians and you put in their pla&e men and 3omen 3ith a

&ommitment to follo3 the Constitution and &ut the si4e of go%ernment$

" belie%e that 3e are in the early days of a historymaing turn$

Please no3 ho3 important your &alls, %isits, and letters are to the

maintenan&e of our liberties$ Be&ause of you, Congress responded and

3e are starting to undo the damage thats been done$

!e belie%e in lo3er ta7es, a limited %ie3 of go%ernment

and the e7&eptionalism of *meri&a$ *nd " belie%e *meri&a

is the indispensible nation$

ust the &reation of this nation 3as a mira&le$ !hos to say that 3e &an

see a mira&le againM

The perilous battle that 3as fought in the pa&ifi&, at "3o ima, 3as a

battle against all odds, and yet the image of the young G$"$s in the

in&ursion against the apanese immortali4es their %i&tory$ These si7

young men raising the flag &ame to symboli4e all of *meri&a &oming

together to beat ba& a totalitarian aggressor$

Our &urrent debt &risis 3e fa&e today is different, but 3e still need all ous to pull together$ !e &an do this$

*nd thats the hope 3e hold tonight as *meri&ans$ !e 3ill push

for3ard to re&laim the greatness of our &ountry and to pro&laim the

liberty upon 3hi&h 3e 3ere founded$


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*nd 3e 3ill do so be&ause 3e the people 3ill ne%er gi%e up on this grea

nation$

God bless you, and God bless *meri&a$

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Rea&tion Roundup' Heritage Responds To the

State of the Union

Posted January 25th, 2011 at 9:28pm in Ongoing Priorities
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Heritage members and fans are dis&ussing President Bara& Obama1s

State of the Unions address at T3itterand =a&ebooright no3$ *nd

here are 2ust some of our e7perts1 immediate rea&tions to parts of the

spee&h'

Jore Change and Progress

!hat does the &ommitted progressi%e do 3hen the dire&tion of history

turns against themM That1s 3hat seems to ha%e happened bet3een -//e7t, redefine 3hat &hange means$ Rather than transformati%e &hange

(as in the old notion of 3e are the &hange 3e ha%e been 3aiting for1# it
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no3 turns out that Athe 3orld has &hanged, dri%en by te&hnology and

&ompetition$ The ne3 &hallenge is not to bring about &hange but to

respond to &hange and Ameet the demands of a ne3 age$ !hat 3e &an1

do is stand pat)a &ut against &onser%ati%es using the phrase earlyprogressi%es &oined against their &riti&s 3ho 3anted to Astand pat

rather than 2oin the liberal surge$ Today 3e must &hange to eep up 3it

&hange$

President Obama said se%eral times that 3e must A3in the future$ =ine

+oes anyone 3ant to lose the futureM But)and here he betrays his

progressi%e prin&iples and re&onfirms that liberalism is the philosophy

of go%ernment)it turns out that the ey is more go%ernmentAin%estment in inno%ation, edu&ation and infrastru&ture$ *nd more

progressi%e go%ernment' A!e &annot 3in the future 3ith a go%ernment

of the past$ !e no3 3hat that means$

So' &onsolidate, meet the demands for &hange and 3in the future$

There1s still hope' A!e are poised for progress$

1 att Spa!dn3

Still >o Choi&e in 6du&ation

!e agree 3ith the president' >o Child 8eft Behind is broen$

Unfortunately, the similarities end there$ although both sides of the aisle

agree that >o Child 8eft Behind is broen, the Obama administration

does not belie%e the federal role in edu&ation is fundamentally fla3ed$

They1re still holding onto the hope that after @/ years of failed federal

inter%entions, this time, !ashington 3ill get it right$

"n his address tonight, President Obama lauded his Ra&e to the Top

Program and &ontinued to promote national standards$ He also taled


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e7tensi%ely about Ain%esting more in edu&ation, a &lear indi&ation that

he plans to &ontinue !ashington1s edu&ation spending spree$

But &onser%ati%es ha%e a better plan for impro%ing edu&ation' The

*&ademi& Partnerships 8ead Us to Su&&ess (*P8US# plan$ *P8US

3ould allo3 states to opt out of onerous federal programs su&h as those

found 3ithin >C8B, and 3ould allo3 state and lo&al leaders to ha%e

more &ontrol o%er edu&ation dollars and de&isionmaing$

The president1s spee&h also la&ed any serious dis&ussion of s&hool

&hoi&e, despite the fa&t that the highly effe&ti%e +$C$ Opportunity

S&holarship Program is on life support in his ba& yard$ By &ontrast,Speaer ohn Boehner had parents and &hildren from the +$C$

Opportunity S&holarship Program as guests in the Speaer1s Bo7 durin

the SOTU tonight ) a sure sign that he plans to mae s&hool &hoi&e in

the +istri&t a priority$

1 'ndsey Bur4e

Obama&are is Still Un&onstitutional

Tonight, the President, defending his health &are plan, stated A"f you

ha%e ideas about ho3 to impro%e this la3 by maing &are better or mor

affordable, " am eager to 3or 3ith you$ Unfortunately, he did not

e7press any &on&ern regarding the &onstitutionality of the bill$ *s

Heritage has des&ribed here, the health &are mandate is both

unpre&edented, and un&onstitutional$ * federal &ourt in irginia has

already agreed, de&laring the mandate un&onstitutional, and a ma2ority

of states are &hallenging the mandate in &ourt in =lorida$

The mandate1s &onstitutional defe&t is a ma2or problem for Obama1s

offer to 2ust modify the e7isting, ill&on&ei%ed bill, be&ause as President

Obama1s o3n usti&e +epartment has argued in &ourt, the mandate is s
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essential gi%en the other reuirements in the la3 that its elimination

3ould Aine7orably dri%e the health insuran&eQ maret into e7tin&tion$

Tinering around the edges 3ill not fi7 the problems 3ith this bill$ * du

respe&t for the Constitution and publi& opinion reuires that theunpre&edented o%errea&hing of the mandate be &orre&ted)and this 3ill

reuire &omplete repeal$

1 Robert (!t

So&ial Se&urity

The good ne3s 3as that the spee&h in&luded a referen&e to fi7ing So&ial

Se&urity$ Unfortunately, President Obama1s laudable goal of finding aAbipartisan solution to strengthen So&ial Se&urity for future

generations 3as either empty rhetori& or sho3ed a serious

misunderstanding of 3hat &auses that program1s underfunding$ His ne7

senten&e e7empted e%erything that might impro%e future generations1

retirement se&urity e7&ept raising ta7es$

>ot only does that mae a bipartisan solution almost impossible, but the

ta7 in&reases that he has dis&ussed in the past don1t fi7 the problem$ =orinstan&e, So&ial Se&urity1s nonpartisan a&tuaries say that maing e%ery

dollar or earnings sub2e&t to the payroll ta7 only delays the start of

permanent defi&its by < years from -/0: until -/-@$ =uture retirees &an

still e7pe&t a more than -/ per&ent &ut in their benefits$ *nd those 3ho

3ould pay those higher ta7es 3ill see the huge in&rease in their margina

ta7 rates drain a3ay dollars that &ould other3ise ha%e been used to star

small businesses$

The President1s approa&h ignores the re&ommendations of his o3n

bipartisan &ommission$ "t also fails to re&ogni4e that *meri&ans are

li%ing longer than e%er, and that o%er


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they &an a%oid the -/ per&ent benefit &uts that 3ill &ome other3ise$ "f he

really 3ants a bipartisan solution to So&ial Se&urity1s problems, this

spee&h didn1t sho3 it$

1 Da#d *ohn

Repeal

Throughout the health &are debate, the Heritage =oundation offered

numerous ideasfor ho3 to impro%e the health &are system, in&luding fo

those 3ho are most in need$

*meri&ans 3ant health &are reform, but not the ind ena&ted under thene3 health &are la3$ They do not 3ant to turn more po3er o%er their

health &are dollars or personal health &are de&isions to !ashington

bureau&rats$ *nd, Congress &annot fi7 a health &are la3 that is founded

on a fundamentally fla3ed foundation$

Real health &are reformis based on &onsumerfo&used, maretbased

reforms that empo3er indi%iduals by fi7ing the ta7 treatment of health

insuran&e, transforming health &are entitlement programs, and lettingthe states de%elop reforms that best meet the uniue needs of their

&iti4ens through portability, &hoi&e and &ompetition$

"f the President is serious about *meri&an1s fis&al future, he 3ould begin

by repealing a health &are la3 that adds a trillion dollars in ne3 health

&are spending, stifles e&onomi& gro3th through a half a trillion in ne3

ta7es, burdens future generations 3ith unno3n &osts, and undermines

indi%idual freedom through go%ernment mandates and regulations$1 Nna O5charen4o

Subsidies +on1t Create obs
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"n his state of the union address, President Obama dragged out a ./

yearold, &old3ar poster &hild to paper o%er his proposal for a tried

andfailed energyL2obs poli&y$ The rhetori& for his poli&y alludes to the

Sputni spa&e ra&e$ Unfortunately, the reality promises a sputteringe&onomy$ Go%ernment bureau&rats and federal mandates are not the

moti%ating for&e for inno%ation and 2ob &reation$

8ast year1s poster &hildren for &leanenergy 2obs, Solyndra and

6%ergreen Solar, are this year1s ob2e&t lessons in the futility of trying to

subsidi4e our 3ay to good, permanent 2ob &reation$

Jere months after re&ei%ing a E.F. million go%ernment loan (and aftera 3ellpubli&i4ed presidential photo op#, Solyndra 3ithdre3 its initial

publi& offering be&ause it got a subpar re%ie3 from an independent

auditor$ *nd a year after getting their halfbillion dollars, Solyndra

&losed a fa&tory and got rid of nearly -// 2obs$

*fter mu&h hyped state subsidies of up to E;: million and after millions

of dollars of federal subsidies 6%ergreen Solar is no3 shutting its fa&tor

in Jassa&husetts, laying off ;// 3orers, and mo%ing produ&tion toChina$

"f a &ompany needs a subsidy to hire a 3orer, that 3orer 3ill be out

on the street 3hen the subsidy e7pires$ Pri%ate enterprise pro%ides

energy, &reates 2obs, and de%elops inno%ati%e te&hnology$ "t does so

be&ause pri%ate enterprise only su&&eeds 3hen the energy, 2obs, and

te&hnology pro%ide %alue that e7&eeds the &ost$ That1s ho3 3e get good,

durable 2obs$1 Da#d 6reut7er

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This e%ening1s State of the Union address 3as notably de%oid of

dis&ussion of one of the issues that &ould be fairly &hara&teri4ed as

Ade&ades in the maing, the phrase President Obama used to introdu&

a litany of problems fa&ing the &ountry$ 6%iden&e &ontinues toa&&umulatethat the persisten&e of problems lie po%erty and 3elfare

dependen&y is strongly asso&iated 3ith the rise in the number of &hildre

born out of 3edlo&$

To a striing degree, the &hallenges of the federal budget are lined to

and aggra%ated by the fra&turing in family budgets brought on by the

failure of families to formand go%ernment poli&ies that negle&t the best

adhesi%e to repair that fra&turing ) the bonds of marriage$ The state of*meri&an families 3ent unmentioned tonight but it is %ital that this

&on%ersation, and itsimpli&ationsfor the State of the Union, happen

3ith a ne3 urgen&y at the national le%el$

1 8huc4 Dono#an

Preser%ing Pea&e

The President said tonight that the nation must al3ays remember thatthe *meri&ans 3ho ha%e borne the greatest burden in this struggle to be

free are the men and 3omen in uniform$ President Obama 3as right to

say that the &ountry is united in support of those 3ho ser%e and their

families$ *s a result, he also rightly said that 3e must pro%ide them the

euipment that they need, &are and benefits they1%e earned, and more$

The &hallenge in meeting this tas of pro%iding our all%olunteer for&e

all the tools they need to su&&eed no3 and for the ne7t -/ years is that

the U$S$ is slipping in this area, as 3ell$ The traditional margins of U$S$

te&hnologi&al military superiority are de&lining a&ross the board$ These

longheld Amargins are ingredients in U$S$ military suprema&y that

ha%e ensured that our for&es are ne%er in a fair fight$ "ndeed, during a
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re&ent trip to China, the Se&retary of +efense saidthat the Chinese

A&learly ha%e potential to put some of our &apabilities at ris$

8et us truly re&all the lessons of history in re%ersing the trendof trying

to see a pea&e di%idend 3hen none e7ists$ * de&ade of &onfli&t and t3o

de&ades of underin%estment ha%e left the U$S$ military too small and

inadeuately euipped to do e%erything being ased of these men and

3omen$ "n uly -/0/, a bipartisan &ommission 3arned of a &oming

Atrain 3re& if Congress does not a&t ui&ly to rebuild and moderni4

the U$S$ military$ There is no ui& or easy fi7$ Jeeting the military1s

full moderni4ation reuirements

*meri&an =ounders understoodthat Athe surest means of a%oiding 3ar

is to be prepared for it in pea&e$ *s Thomas Paine 3arned, it 3ould no

be enough to Ae7pe&t to reap the blessings of freedom$ *meri&ans

3ould ha%e to Aundergo the fatigues of supporting it$ Supporting

freedom and defending the nation still reuires publi& spending on the

nation1s defense for&es in both times of 3ar and pea&e$ *s President

George !ashington asserted in his =irst *nnual Jessage, deli%ered in

0;D/, the Amost effe&tual means of preser%ing pea&e is Ato be preparedfor 3ar$ Congress and the President should re&ommit tonight to

rebuilding *meri&a1s military and gi%ing the best to those 3ho ser%e$

1 ac4en7e Ea3!en

Ta7 *genda =alls Short

President Obama a&no3ledged the t3o biggest ta7 issues holding ba&

the e&onomy and hampering our &ompetiti%eness' our ineffi&ient

indi%idual in&ome ta7 &ode and our high &orporate ta7 rate$ His desired

remedies, ho3e%er, fall short of 3hat is needed$
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The indi%idual in&ome ta7 &ode needs fundamental reform$ "t has

be&ome &luttered 3ith too many &redits, dedu&tions, and e7emptions

that slo3 e&onomi& gro3th$ The president did not lay out his %ision for

ta7 reform$ =or ta7 reform to be&ome a reality leadership at thepresidential le%el is %ital$ President Obama1s la& of thorough attention

to the issue does not bold 3ell for su&&ess in the near future$

The president re%isited his old hobby horse' eliminating ta7 &uts for the

top - per&ent of in&ome earners$ This 3as an odd in&lusion in the spee&h

sin&e 2ust a fe3 3ees ago he signed a - year e7tension of those %ery ta7

&uts$ *nd if ta7 reform does be&ome a reality, the -//0L-//F ta7 &uts

3ould be a nonissue$

On the &orporate ta7 front the president 3as better but far from perfe&t

He rightly &alled for the rate to &ome do3n but only if Congress &loses

Aloopholes to offset the &ost$ Jany of the pro%isions that are &ommonly

referred to as loopholes are in fa&t 2ustifiable dedu&tions that help lessen

the blo3 of the &orporate ta7 systems1 other short&omings lie the

ta7ation of in&ome earned in foreign &ountries and the la& of ability for

&ompanies to immediately dedu&t the &ost of &apital in%estment$ Gettingrid of them 3ill temper any benefit deri%ed from a lo3er rate$ The fe3

loopholes that do e7ist 3ould fall 3ell short of maing up the re%enue

from a rate &ut$ Spending should be &ut to mae sure the rate redu&tion

does not add to the defi&it$

The best ta7 re&ommendation the president made 3as the elimination o

0/DD reporting reuirements that are part of the health&are la3$ These

reuirements 3ill &ripple small businesses should they e%er go into

effe&t$

The 3orst ta7 idea 3as the elimination of so&alled subsidies for oil

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the huge upfront &osts they in&ur for de%eloping ne3 oil sour&es$ The

spe&ifi& pro%isions 3ould not be ne&essary if the ta7 &ode rightly allo3ed

all businesses to e7pense their &apital in%estments$ Taing them a3ay

from oil &ompanies 3ill in&rease the &ost of oil for all *meri&ans and bea step in the 3rong dire&tion for the ta7 &ode$

18urts Dubay

+enial on +efi&its

On one %ital point the nation has almost 3ithout e7&eption rea&hed a

&onsensus 3hen it &omes to entitlement spending &urrent poli&y is

unaffordable and unsustainable$ President Obama a&no3ledged this&learly 3hen he announ&ed the &reation of the >ational Commission on

=is&al Responsibility and Reform and again 3hen he re&ei%ed the

Commission1s final report$ The preamble to the report &on&luded'

*fter all the tal about debt and defi&its, it is long past time for

*meri&a1s leaders to put up or shut up$ The era of debt denial is o%er,

and there &an be no turning ba&$

To the e7isting &onsensus regarding the need to a&t, the need for

A*meri&a1s leaders to put up or shut up, as the Commission put it, &an

no3 be added a se&ond point of broad agreement ) the President1s

poli&ies as outlined in his State of the Union *ddress regarding So&ial

Se&urity, Jedi&are, and Jedi&aid, the programs that ha%e the nation on

&ourse to a A&rushing debt burden, &ontinue the era of debt denial

unabated, unabashedly, e%en proudly$

The President in short has turned his ba& on his o3n Commission, on

his %o3s of leadership, and on future generations$ On these issues it 3ill

no3 be up to the Congress to tae up the mantle of leadership the
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President has found too hea%y to bear$

1*D 9oster

*meri&an 8eadership"n the opening se&tion of his address, the President referred to the need

to Asustain the leadership that has made *meri&a not 2ust a pla&e on a

map, but a light to the 3orld$ Those are &ertainly 3ords that

&onser%ati%es &an endorse and respe&t, 2ust as they 3ill agree 3ith his

statement that *meri&a is Athe first nation that 3as founded for the sa

of an idea$ *s Jatthe3 Spalding has stated, the *meri&an &reedAis set

forth most &learly in the +e&laration of "ndependen&e, a timelessstatement of inherent rights, the proper purposes of go%ernment, and

the limits on politi&al authority$

Unfortunately, this 3as not the &reed that the President pro&laimed in

his spee&h$ "nstead of re&ogni4ing that the =ounders 3anted to limit the

role of the federal go%ernment, the President &ontinued on in the %ein

that has mared *meri&an politi&s for too many years' arguing that the

needs of tomorro3 demand more spending the President no3 &allsthem Ain%estments on programs that ha%e already failed$

8audably, the President &alled on Congress to pass the free trade area

3ith South Iorea5 regrettably, he a&&ompanied it 3ith a reiteration of

his promise to Aonly sign deals that eep faith 3ith *meri&an 3orers,

and promote *meri&an 2obs, a pledge that, in the &ase of the agreemen

3ith South Iorea, meant months of delay and spe&ial fa%ors to

organi4ed labor in the U$S$ automoti%e se&tor$

8audably, the President t3i&e noted the need for *meri&an leadership in

the 3orld$ He e%en 3ent so far as to &laim that A*meri&an leadership

has been rene3ed and *meri&a1s standing has been restored$
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The sour&e of this restoration, though, remained mysterious$ "n "ra, th

President noted, the 3ar is ending thans to the surge strategy that

the President opposed$ *meri&a &ontinues to disrupt "slamist plots

made by an enemy the President 3as un3illing e%en to name, in a 3arthat, as the stillopen Guantanamo prison testifies, has reuired him to

rethin his presumptions$

"n *fghanistan, the President reiterated the U$S$ determination to 3in

and &oupled it 3ith a promise that A3e 3ill begin to bring our troops

home in uly -/00$ The >e3 ST*RT treaty and the Areset 3ith Russia

made predi&table appearan&es but nothing 3as heard about the fa&t

that Russia is an auto&ra&y that atta&s, threatens, and sub%erts itsneighbors, 3hile at the same time it murders and imprisons opponents

at home$

"n the realm of foreign affairs, the only surprises &ame at the end of the

President1s remars, 3hen he e7pressed solidarity 3ith Southern Sudan

and e7pli&itly said that Athe United States of *meri&a stands 3ith the

people of Tunisia, and supports the demo&rati& aspirations of all

people$ !here is that support in RussiaM "n "ranM "n ChinaM

*s Jarion Smith 3rote in his essayon *meri&an leadership, AGeorge

!ashington re&ommended a foreign poli&y of independen&e and

strength, a poli&y that 3ould allo3 *meri&a to &hoose pea&e or 3ar, as

our interest, guided by 2usti&e, shall &ounsel$1 !hat 3as missing from

the President1s address 3as any sense that both U$S$ interests and our

sense of 2usti&e ought not to be engaged only in the Tunisias of the 3orld

The President1s emphasis on the %alue of *meri&an1s allian&es 3as

3el&ome$ Too bad it 3as not balan&ed by a re&ognition that the U$S$ also

fa&es hostile regimes$
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"n an e&ho of President George !$ Bush1s &all in -//- for Aa balan&e of

po3er that fa%ors freedom a phrase mu&h mo&ed at the time

President Obama &alled for Aa 3orld that fa%ors pea&e and prosperity$

Until the President a&&epts that prosperity flo3s from freedom, and tha

3e 3ill not ad%an&e the &ause of pea&e by speaing only in abstra&tions

about oppression in Asome &ountries and ignoring the fla3s in the

3orld1s multilateral institutions, all of us are not liely to mo%e &loser to

that goal$

1 "ed Bromund

President1s Budget Proposals +on1t Jat&h theRhetori&

President Obama asserted that Aa &riti&al step in 3inning the future is t

mae sure 3e aren1t buried under a mountain of debt$ et he failed to

offer any proposals that 3ould signifi&antly rein in es&alating spending

and defi&its$

The President1s proposed free4e of nonse&urity dis&retionary spending3ould essentially lo& in the -. per&ent e7pansion these programs ha%e

re&ei%ed sin&e -//;$ et paring ba& defi&its reuires a&tually redu&ing

runa3ay spending, starting 3ith the House Republi&an plan to &ut this

spending ba& to -//< or e%en -//:le%els$

=urthermore, only 0- per&ent of the federal budget 3ould be affe&ted by

the President1s free4e proposal$ So&ial Se&urity, Jedi&are, and Jedi&aid

&osts are truly dri%ing longterm defi&itsup3ard$ et the President

ignored nearly all entitlement reforms proposed by his o3n &ommission

and e%en stated opposition to any &hange in future So&ial Se&urity

benefits$ *dditionally, the President again defended his budgetbusting

trilliondollar health &are program$
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=inally, President Obama sought to rehabilitate the reputation of

runa3ay spending by renaming it Ain%estment$ !hile in%estment

indeed dri%es e&onomi& gro3th, politi&ians ha%e pro%en to be poor

in%estors$ =ederal I0- edu&ation spending has gro3n -0D per&entfastethan inflation o%er the past de&ade, yet student test s&ores ha%e

stagnated$ Thirty years of federal energy spending has failed to

signifi&antly impro%e the alternati%e energy maret$ *nd massi%e

in&reases in federal transportation spending ha%e been di%ertedinto

earmars, bie paths, and museums, or allo&ated to budgetbusting

transitprograms that go%ernors do not 3ant$ "f President Obama truly

3ants to en&ourage in%estment, he should fo&us on redu&ing the budget

defi&it ) 3hi&h is &ro3ding out pri%ate in%estment ) and should redu&ebarriers to produ&ti%e pri%ate se&tor in%estments$

1Bran Red!

0 Jillion 6le&tri& Cars Should Rea&h the Jaret

!hen They1re Ready

"n his address President Obama emphasi4ed thatA!ith more resear&hand in&enti%es, 3e &an brea our dependen&e on oil 3ith biofuels, and

be&ome the first &ountry to ha%e 0 million ele&tri& %ehi&les on the road

by -/0.$

Ho3 mu&h more resear&h and in&enti%es do ele&tri& &ards needM!e

ta7payers ha%e handed out billions for ad%an&ed battery %ehi&le

manufa&turing$ !e ta7payers foot the bill (from E-,.//)E;,.//,

depending on the battery &apa&ity# for e%ery ele&tri& %ehi&le pur&hase$*nd 3e ta7payers help pay for the tens of millions of dollars the

+epartment of 6nergy spends to study in&reased battery storage$ 6%en

so, the demand for ele&tri& %ehi&les is lo3 be&ause ele&tri& &ars are

prohibiti%ely &ostly e%en 3ith the la%ish handouts$
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One sur%eyfound that the number of &onsumers interested in buying a

hybrid %ehi&le dropped from :0 per&ent to F/ per&ent 3hen they learned

they 3ould pay an additional E.,/// &ompared to a &omparable %ehi&le

3ith a traditional internal &ombustion engine ("C6# Only 0; per&ent ofthose sur%eyed sho3ed interest in buying a battery ele&tri& %ehi&le

(B6#, and that number de&reased to . per&ent 3hen told a B6 3ould

&ost an additional E0.,/// &ompared to the &losest "C6po3ered %ehi&le

6%en after &ounting the gasoline sa%ings you 3ould reap from buying an

ele&tri& %ehi&le, ele&tri& &ars are still a bad in%estment$ * good sign for

the %iability of ele&tri& %ehi&les is 3hen they 3on1t need the handouts

from ta7payers$

President Obama also said in his address, A>one of us &an predi&t 3ith

&ertainty 3hat the ne7t big industry 3ill be, or 3here the ne3 2obs 3ill

&ome from$ Thirty years ago, 3e &ouldn1t no3 that something &alled

the "nternet 3ould lead to an e&onomi& re%olution$

The same is true 3ith our %ehi&le fleet in the U$S$ >o one 3ill no3 3ha

it 3ill loo lie F/ years from no3, or e%en @ years from no3$ So 3hy is

the go%ernment trying to di&tate that maret 3hen it no3s it &an1tM1Nc4 'ors

=ree 6nterprise %s Big Go%ernment

President Obama, in his spee&h tonight, rightfully identified the issue of

&ompetiti%eness as a ey for re%i%ing the e&onomy, and inno%ation as a

%ital ingredient in a&hie%ing that &ompetiti%eness$ *meri&a &an, as he

said, out inno%ate the rest of the 3orld$ But his pres&ription for sparin

that inno%ation and maing *meri&a again a 3orld leader is badly off

target$ His model is Sputni, and he pres&ribes e&onomi& >*S*s as the

solution$ !ashington 3ould set the rules, define the parameters of the

&hallenge$ This is not the 3ay the today1s e&onomy 3ors$
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*meri&an entrepreneurs do not need grants from !ashington in order

to &ompete, they don1t need in&enti%es from bureau&rats in order to

&ompete$ The Ste%e obs1 of the future are not applying for federal

grants, or federal A&hallenges$ !hat they need is for !ashington to getout of their 3ay to ta7 them less, regulate them less, and lea%e them

alone$ et, there 3as nothing in his remars that pro%ided hope that

these burdens 3ould be lifted anytime soon, sa%e for a short referen&e to

regulatory reform, and e%en that 3as hedged 3ith defense of regulation

Until the need to free enterprise rather than guide it is addressed

the entrepreneurial spirit of *meri&ans 3ill remain leashed, and all

the >*S*s in the 3orld 3ill not impro%e our &ompetiti%eness

1*ames :attuso

6nergy A"n%estment

"n his State of the Union spee&h, President Obama pointed to the

go%ernment in%estments that led to su&h &ommer&ial su&&esses as the

"nternet, &omputer &hips, and GPS (interestingly, he left out Tang#$ The

impli&ation is that more ta7 payer support 3ould bring the same sort ofinno%ation to the energy se&tor$ This supposition is misleading$

The go%ernment programs that led to the "nternet, &omputer &hips, and

GPS 3ere not programs to de%elop te&hnologies to meet a &ommer&ial

demand$ They 3ere ea&h the result of defenserelated programs that

3ere &reated to meet national se&urity reuirements$ People lie former

Se&retary of 6nergy and +efense, +r$ ames S&hlesinger argued

tirelessly for in%estment in GPS not be&ause it 3ould help him to findthe nearest burrito bar but be&ause he (and not many others at the time

understood the national se&urity %alue of su&h a system$ "t 3as not until

after the first Gulf !ar (3hen *meri&ans 3itnessed the a&&ura&y 3ith

3hi&h GPS &ould guide a %ehi&le to its destination# that entrepreneurs


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gained a&&ess to GPS signals$ "t 3as they that that &ommer&iali4ed that

te&hnology, not the federal go%ernment$ "n essen&e, the federal

go%ernment in%ested to de%elop &apabilities that did not e7ist and 3ere

needed for spe&ifi& go%ernment a&ti%ities$ 6ntrepreneurs gained a&&essto that basi& 3or and &ommer&iali4ed it$

This is an entirely different model from 3hat the President is suggesting

the United States tae to de%elop ne3 energy te&hnologies$ >ot only doe

he 3ant the federal go%ernment to &hoose 3hi&h energy sour&es

*meri&ans &an a&&ess, but he belie%es that the go%ernment is best

prepared to o%ersee the entire business de%elopment pro&ess$ He does

not 3ant to support resear&h and de%elopment, but he 3ants to dri%e&ommer&iali4ation, and to define the maret$

That is not the right approa&h for the United States$ !e are a &ountry

abundant 3ith natural resour&es and as the President &orre&tly pointed

out, AOur free enterprise system is 3hat dri%es inno%ations$ Jr$

President, you had me at Ainno%ation$ Too bad you lost me after that$

1*ac4 Spencer

Obama1a Sputni Joment

AThis is our generation1s Sputni moment, de&lared President Obama

in the State of the Union address$ "f he belie%es that, he probably should

ha%e studied his history and ho3 President 6isenho3er responded to

Russia1s satellite laun&hbe&ause "e 3ould not ha%e endorsed

anything lie Obama1s pres&ription$ "n the 3ae of sputni hysteria the

Gaither &ommission arguedfor an astronomi&al in&rease in spending to

A&at&hup 3ith the So%iets$ 6isenho3er ne3 that 3riting &he&s that

the nation &an1t &ash is no 3ay to mae *meri&a more inno%ati%e$ "e

de&lared you do not 3in a &ompetition by Aby banrupting yourself
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President 6isenho3er1s relu&tan&e to thro3 go%ernment and money at

e%ery problem 3as rooted in his distrust of Big Go%ernment$

A6isenho3er 3as deeply &on&erned about the gro3th of the federal

go%ernment and the systemati& loss of state and lo&al autonomy, 3ritesJartin Jedhurst, an e7pert on "e1s rhetori&$ AHe 3as &on&erned abou

a go%ernment that spent more than it too in$

6isenho3er also understood that getting spending under &ontrol 3as

about getting !ashington1s priorities right$ "e did not 3ant to

needlessly thro3 money at anything, e%en defense(AGQood managemen

di&tates that 3e resist o%erspending as resolutely as 3e oppose under

spending, "e de&lared#, but he &learly understood that soundly fundingdefense had to be his first priority$ Obama1s &all of simply &alling for

not&utting se&urity spending is not enough ) defense moderni4ation is

already underfunded and defense spending too ineffi&ient) Obama

needs to bu& up defensee%en as he needs to do mu&h, mu&h more to

reign in other go%ernment spending$

!e did not hear that ind of &ommitment during the State of the Union

address$ >or did 3e hear a president 3ho is 3illing to get tough 3ith allof *meri&a1s &ompetitors in the same 3ay "e 3ould$ "nstead, the

Obama +o&trineis still ali%e and 3ell$

The State of the Union address 3as a pale shado3 of 3hat the nation

should e7pe&tfrom presidents 3ho are responsible for pro%iding for the

&ommon defense$

1*ames 8ara;ano

Tags' state of the union

*uthor' Conn Carroll
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im +eJint 2ust t3eeted this'

Obama shaes hands 3ith the Supreme Court *fter atta&ing them last year$

Speaer Boehner 2ust introdu&ed Obama$

*fter ramming through Obama&are last year on a stri&tly partisan %ote ) Obama 3ants to

usher in a ne3 era of &ooperation 6spe&ially sin&e the GOP 3on big in >o%ember$

Obama tries to gi%e uplifting spee&h) "t1s not 3oring *=ter all he is the 3orst 2obs

president sin&e the Great +epression$

*fter bashing pri%ate industry for t3o years Obama no3 3ants inno%ation$

Here 3e go Obama proposes ne3 spending on inno%ation$ *fter all, only go%ernment &an

&reate 2obs

COJR*+6S, TH"S "S OUR G6>6R*T"O>1s SPUT>"I JOJ6>TX
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Good lu& ABy -/F. O !* OB*J* PUSH6S +R6*J *CT$ 8et1s allo3 people to &ontinue to brea the

la3$

=*"8 Obama pushes high speed rail money pit and internet &onne&tion$ "t1s a human rightX

Here 3e go So&ialist Obama ass for *meri&a to le%el the playing field$

Obama appears uptight$ The applause is 3ea$

On Obama&are A*nything &an be impro%ed >ot 3illing to go ba& to preObama&are days

He1s still pushing his unpopular and illegal Obama&are la3$ +idn1t 3e hear this &rap last

yearM ) !here1s oe !ilsonM

BO OU SUR6 C*> >OT"C6 a la& of olume this year &oming from the left$ Too bad

about that last ele&tion, huhM

OB*J* B6*TS UP O> TH6 R"CH +rinX

!o3X "t looed lie . libs 2ust stood up to applauseX That -/0/ ele&tion really 3as histori&$

Obama still &an1t say A%i&tory and A"ra in the same senten&e$ Ho3 sad$

=igures$ Obama taes &redit for Bush1s Sudan plan$

Obama 2ust said the US supported demo&ra&y in Tunisia Until the guns start bla4ing$

Obama 2ust told a story about a mira&le that happened in Chili 3hen go%ernment got out of

3ay , *>+ COJP86T68 J"SS TH6 =R6*I">G PO">TX

+*T6 >"GHT =*"8 +iluting the +emo&rats +ro3ned Out the *pplause$ !hat a +6*+

SP66CH$ Good grief$


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!espite Media "oopla# O$ama Set to

Rec%cle &ast Year's Themes (

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+espite all of the media hoopla, Obama is set to re&y&le stale

themes and broen promises from last year1s address$

Republi&an Senatorsreported'

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"he Unon (ddress

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* State Of The Union *ddress 8ie This$(The !ashington

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=ree4e Obama Called =or "n His *ddress1 8ast ear

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*ddress To The >ation 8ast ear *t This Time His

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ears *nd Ultimately "t Jay Ha%e 8ittle 6ffe&t$(AObama State Of The Union' Spending, But Restraint, "he

(ssocated Press, 0L-.L00#

TH6 !*88 STR66T OUR>*8' AThe =ree4e !on1t

Tou&h Some Of The Budget1s Biggest "tems , su&h as

Jedi&are, So&ial Se&urity and defense spending, nor

3ill it apply to homelandse&urity spending or foreign

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Street *ourna!, 0L-.L00#

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lie Jedi&are, Jedi&aid, So&ial Se&urity and national

se&urity, along 3ith interest payments on the nation1s

debt$(AObama To See Partial =ree4e "n Spending *s +efi&itJo%e, "he Ne5 Aor4 "mes, 0L-.L00#

R6UT6RS'A* =ree4e On That Type Of Spending

!ould >ot *pply To The Huge 6ntitlement Programs

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Themes *nd "deas He Has Offered Jany Times Before1

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*ppears Poised To Re&y&le Themes *nd "deas He Has Offered

Jany Times Before$ He 3ill address in%estments1 in edu&ation,

infrastru&ture and energy inno%ation in the spee&h ) three ideas

he first started dis&ussing as far ba& as his first address to

Congress in -//D$ That same year, he banned earmars from his

big e&onomi& stimulus bill5 Tuesday night, he 3ill &all for an

earmar ban budget3ide$ He 3ill tal about the need toemphasi4e &reating 2obs abo%e all else ) 2ust as he did last year,

3hen he said 2obs must be our number one fo&us in -/0/$1 *nd

3hen he raises a E;< billion defense sa%ings proposal, it 3ill be

one that has already been gi%en a full publi& airing by +efense
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Se&retary Robert Gates, administration offi&ials said$(AObama

To Propose =i%eear Spending =ree4e "n State Of The Union

*ddress, "he Washn3ton Post, 0L-.L00#

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=o&us' +efi&it Redu&tion1

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bipartisan defi&it &ommission first un%eiled a

blueprint for reining in the national debt, Obama has

yet to tae a position on it, and administration

offi&ials say he 3ill not do so in his address$(AObamaTo Propose =i%eear Spending =ree4e "n State Of The Union

*ddress, "he Washn3ton Post, 0L-.L00#

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But, he1s not finished yet$

Today the !hite House announ&ed that Obama 3ould free4e

spendingat &urrent le%els$

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spending through a transition to nonse&urity

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S;7< *O ? O$ama @ill Propose Spendin6FreeeC Toni6ht

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Bara& Obama tripledthe national defi&it in oneyear$ This last year the defi&it 3as E0$-D Trillion

dollars$

!The "aptain#s "omments$

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Today, *BC &elebrated the ne3s today Obama 3ill announ&e a

Afree4e on spending tonight$

*BCreported'

Pursun3 a path o; de;ct reducton and 3o#ernment re;orm,Presdent Obama 5!! ton3ht n hs State o; the Unon address ca!!

;or a ban on earmar4s and he 5!! propose an o#era!! bud3et;ree7e, (B8 Ne5s has !earned)

"he proposa!s come as the presdent prepares to tac4!e the de;ctand debt and as he ;aces a ?ouse o; Representat#es n Repub!can

hands, many o; 5hose members nc!ude those a;;!ated 5th the"ea Party 5ho may be 5!!n3 to embrace both mo#es)

"he presdent 5!! propose some ne5 spendn3 n certan areas thaaddress the speechs theme o;


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!e3s!aton 5thout ha#n3 them ;rst 3o throu3h the norma!

appropratons process, but 8on3ress has contnued to put b!!onso; do!!ars o; such proects n b!!s that arr#e at the presdents

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Popular Repu$lican Paul R%an Steps Ontothe Dational Sta6e Toni6ht

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%or many &meri'ans tonight (i)) be their first opportunity to see a rea) )eader in a'tion*

Rep$ Paul Ryan (R!"# 3ill deli%er the Republi&an response toObama1s State of the Union *ddress tonight$

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The !all Street ournalreported'

When Rep) Pau! Ryan de!#ers the Repub!can response to

Presdent Barac4 Obamas State o; the Unon address "uesday,many #e5ers 5!! 3et ther ;rst !oo4 at a man 5hom :OP !eadersare trustn3 to mana3e a centra! po!cy ssueho5 to cut the

;edera! bud3etthat cou!d shape the partys ma3e ;or years)

Wh!e un4no5n to most (mercans, r) Ryan, years o!d, has

estab!shed hmse!; as a !eadn3 conser#at#e thn4er on ;edera!

spendn3, shaped n part by hs ear!y 5or4 ;or supp!y1sde con*ac4 6emp)

No5, Repub!cans not on!y ha#e made r) Ryan charman o; the?ouse Bud3et 8ommttee, but on "uesday the ?ouse s epected to

#ote to 3#e hm unprecedented po5ers to ;orce spendn3 cuts ;orthe current ;sca! year) "hat authorty 5!! a!!o5 r) Ryan to act

un!atera!!y n settn3 an o#era!! spendn3 !e#e! ;or the rest o; theyear, a ob usua!!y hand!ed by hs ;u!! pane!)

?ours !ater, r) Ryan 5!! spea4 to the naton n a te!e#sedaddress ;o!!o5n3 r) Obamas remar4s to a ont sesson o;

8on3ress) ?e 5as chosen ;or the ro!e by ?ouse Spea4er *ohnBoehner and Senate :OP 'eader tch c8onne!!)

In e!e#atn3 r) Ryan, Repub!can !eaders are ta4n3 5hatDemocrats be!e#e s a po!tca! rs4) ?e has 5rtten an ant1de;ct

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taes n pr#ate accountsthat 3o beyond 5hat e#en many

Repub!cans are prepared to embrace)

But conser#at#es counter that the 2% e!ecton outcome sho5edhe s precse!y the 4nd o; po!tca! ;3ure to put ;orth as the ;ace o;the Repub!can Party)

sad Rep) Dan

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President Obama speas to both houses of Congress during his first State of the Union address at the U$S$

Capitol on anuary -;, -/0/$

President Obama deli%ered his se&ond State of the Union address onTuesday night$ Here is an analysis and the full te7t as prepared for

deli%ery'

>ational ournal *nalyses
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"on3ht I 5ant to be3n by con3ratu!atn3 the men and

5omen o; the %%2th 8on3ress, as 5e!! as your ne5 Spea4er,*ohn Boehner) (nd as 5e mar4 ths occason, 5e are a!somnd;u! o; the empty char n ths 8hamber, and pray ;or thehea!th o; our co!!ea3ue J and our ;rend J :abby :;;ords)

Its no secret that those o; us here ton3ht ha#e had ourd;;erences o#er the !ast t5o years) "he debates ha#e beencontentousC 5e ha#e ;ou3ht ;erce!y ;or our be!e;s) (ndthats a 3ood thn3) "hats 5hat a robust democracydemands) "hats 5hat he!ps set us apart as a naton)

But theres a reason the tra3edy n "ucson 3a#e us pause)(md a!! the nose and passons and rancor o; our pub!cdebate, "ucson remnded us that no matter 5ho 5e are or5here 5e come ;rom, each o; us s a part o; somethn33reater J somethn3 more conseFuenta! than party or

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We are part o; the (mercan ;am!y) We be!e#e that n acountry 5here e#ery race and ;ath and pont o; #e5 can be;ound, 5e are st!! bound to3ether as one peop!eC that 5eshare common hopes and a common creedC that the dreamso; a !tt!e 3r! n "ucson are not so d;;erent than those o; ouro5n ch!dren, and that they a!! deser#e the chance to be;u!;!!ed)

"hat, too, s 5hat sets us apart as a naton)

No5, by tse!;, ths smp!e reco3nton 5ont usher n a ne5era o; cooperaton) What comes o; ths moment s up to us)What comes o; ths moment 5!! be determned not by5hether 5e can st to3ether ton3ht, but 5hether 5e can5or4 to3ether tomorro5)

I be!e#e 5e can) I be!e#e 5e must) "hats 5hat the peop!e

5ho sent us here epect o; us) Wth ther #otes, they#edetermned that 3o#ernn3 5!! no5 be a sharedresponsb!ty bet5een partes) Ne5 !a5s 5!! on!y pass 5thsupport ;rom Democrats and Repub!cans) We 5!! mo#e


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;or5ard to3ether, or not at a!! J ;or the cha!!en3es 5e ;aceare b33er than party, and b33er than po!tcs)

(t sta4e r3ht no5 s not 5ho 5ns the net e!ecton J a;tera!!, 5e ust had an e!ecton) (t sta4e s 5hether ne5 obs andndustres ta4e root n ths country, or some5here e!se) Its5hether the hard 5or4 and ndustry o; our peop!e sre5arded) Its 5hether 5e sustan the !eadershp that hasmade (merca not ust a p!ace on a map, but a !3ht to the5or!d)

We are posed ;or pro3ress) "5o years a;ter the 5orstrecesson most o; us ha#e e#er 4no5n, the stoc4 mar4et hascome roarn3 bac4) 8orporate pro;ts are up) "he economy s3ro5n3 a3an)

But 5e ha#e ne#er measured pro3ress by these yardstc4s

a!one) We measure pro3ress by the success o; our peop!e) Bythe obs they can ;nd and the Fua!ty o; !;e those obs o;;er)By the prospects o; a sma!! busness o5ner 5ho dreams o;turnn3 a 3ood dea nto a thr#n3 enterprse) By theopportuntes ;or a better !;e that 5e pass on to our ch!dren)


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"hats the proect the (mercan peop!e 5ant us to 5or4 on)

"o3ether)

We dd that n December) "han4s to the ta cuts 5e passed,(mercans paychec4s are a !tt!e b33er today) E#erybusness can 5rte o;; the ;u!! cost o; the ne5 n#estments

they ma4e ths year) "hese steps, ta4en by Democrats andRepub!cans, 5!! 3ro5 the economy and add to the morethan one m!!on pr#ate sector obs created !ast year)

But 5e ha#e more 5or4 to do) "he steps 5e#e ta4en

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