Showing posts with label #SOTUresponse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #SOTUresponse. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Can you feel that State of the Union Address excitement?



Who's performing at halftime of this year's State of the Union Address?



















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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Rep. Kennedy to deliver Democrats' State of the Union response

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The State Of Our Union Is Less Safe

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Full Text And Video Of @NikkiHaley's #GOPResponse to Obama's Final #SOTU





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Saturday, January 24, 2015

FACT: The Obama administration has suppressed energy production on federal lands, while Republicans have consistently pressed for a true all-of-the-above energy policy to help create jobs and address costs for working families.


◼ Speaker Boehner's Press Office: CLAIM: “Today, America is number one in oil and gas. ... And thanks to lower gas prices and higher fuel standards, the typical family this year should save $750 at the pump.” (President Obama, State of the Union Address, January 20, 2015)

FACT: The Obama administration has suppressed energy production on federal lands, while Republicans have consistently pressed for a true all-of-the-above energy policy to help create jobs and address costs for working families.

  • Republicans have consistently supported increasing American energy production as a way to lower gas prices, while President Obama is on record supporting increasing gas prices in order to reduce Americans’ dependence on oil. And when the foundations for today’s lower prices were being laid a few years ago by the private sector in states like North Dakota and Texas, President Obama was insisting that increased production would never result in lower prices.
  • President Obama’s pick for Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” At the time, that meant $7-9 per gallon.
  • From 2009 to 2013, oil production on non-federal lands increased 61 percent while falling six percent on federal lands. Similarly, natural gas production has seen a 33 percent increase on non-federal lands, but a 28 percent drop on federal lands, according to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service.
  • According to the Institute for Energy Research, “In 2013, even though the federal government is the largest landowner in the country, federal lands produced 25 percent of the fossil fuels produced in America, down from 36 percent a decade ago.”
  • Factcheck.org challenged a similar claim made by the president in last year’s State of the Union Address, determining that “the remarkable boom in U.S. oil production is chiefly the result of new drilling technology…and not of any government policy.”
  • President Obama’s five-year leasing plan bans energy development on 85 percent of America’s offshore areas and provides for the fewest number of new lease sales ever offered in a plan since the process began in 1980, says the House Natural Resources Committee. The committee also notes that “onshore, the Obama Administration has had the four lowest years of federal acres leased for energy production – going back to 1988.”
  • Speaker Boehner’s five-point vision for resetting America’s economic foundation calls for a true-all-of-the-above energy policy, as Republicans have advocated for for years. As Boehner notes, America’s energy boom is “driving real growth” in areas that have embraced increased oil and gas production, like Youngstown, Ohio, resulting in lower unemployment rates and higher wages for middle-class workers.
◼ While the United States is the world's biggest producer of oil and gas, the American people have accomplished this feat despite Obama's policies, not because of them. - Conn Carroll/Washington Examiner

Only because Republicans stayed unified, and rejected Obama's cap and trade carbon tax, was the shale oil and natural gas boom able to produce the astounding results we are all enjoying today.

◼ President Obama was not shy about taking credit for low gasoline prices, touting the booming oil and natural gas production that has occurred under his administration. - Daily Caller

Since 2009, domestic oil production has gone from only 5 million barrels a day to more than 9 million barrels per day thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling. The U.S. is now set to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer — the country has already beaten out Russia as the world’s top natural gas producer.

But virtually all of the increased oil and natural gas production has come from private and state lands, where Obama has no jurisdiction over approving drilling permits. Meanwhile, oil production on federal lands has floundered under Obama. From 2009 to 2013 oil production on federal lands fell by 11 percent and natural gas production fell by 28 percent.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Focus Group Does Not Beleive Obama That SOTU is Strong



A FOX News focus group does not believe Obama. At all. - Jim Hoft
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

State of the Union Address 2015 (#SOTU)



◼ You can watch the address here: - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion

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RAND PAUL’S RESPONSE TO OBAMA’S 2015 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS



◼ at Breitbart

I think we should put limits on the terms of Congress and infuse our government with fresh ideas....

Not only do we need new blood in Washington, we need a new way of thinking in Washington.

As a physician, I was taught first to do no harm:

To think before you act,

To analyze the unintended consequences of your actions.

I think America would be better off if all our politicians took that same approach: “First, do no harm.”

It is self-evident that the President and Congress are unable to do what every family in America must do—balance the budget.

If Congress cannot, or will not, balance the budget, then we should amend the Constitution to make it mandatory. President Obama is on course to add more to our national debt than all previous presidents combined. We borrow a million dollars a minute. Our $18 trillion dollar debt has become an anchor. Some economists argue that the burden of debt costs us a million jobs a year.... KEEP READING

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What You Need to Know About Joni Ernst, the Iowa Senator Giving the Republican Response to the State of the Union













◼ link - Daily Signal

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Friday, January 16, 2015

Joni Ernst to deliver the GOP’s State of the Union response

◼ arely a week into her congressional tenure, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has been tapped to deliver the GOP's rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union address next week. - Paul Kane/Washington Post

Her selection continues the Republican trend of looking to spotlight a younger minority or female official in its response to Obama. Ernst becomes the fourth woman or minority lawmaker to deliver the response -- following Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) in 2009, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in 2013 and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) in 2014 -- in the seven nationally televised SOTU addresses Obama will have delivered as of next Tuesday.

◼ Rethinking the big speech that isn't so big anymore - AP Downplays.
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Tim Scott: The Republican Party is the real party of diversity

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◼ Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., defended both the Republican Party and his own role as the first black senator from his home state since Reconstruction by saying the GOP is the real party of diversity in America. - Charles Hoskinson/Washington Examiner

"The GOP really has become the Great Opportunity Party," Scott told NBC's David Gregory on "Meet the Press" in an interview Sunday....

He also said the GOP's multiple responses to President Obama's State of the Union address were a sign of strength, not weakness.

"The reason why the party continues to grow is because we like the diversity of ideas, and when we've had that diversity of ideas, it helps us to build the best party for the future," he said. "At the end of the day, what America needs is a party that is as diverse as the Republican Party — that is why the great opportunity for our future comes out of the GOP."
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cato Scholars Respond to the State of the Union Address



◼ Last night was a busy one at the Cato Institute!

During President Obama’s fifth annual State of the Union (SOTU) address and the Republican response, Cato scholars live-blogged while simultaneously tweeting up a storm using #CatoSOTU. Then, as soon as the president’s speech was concluded, our A/V team whisked scholars into the green room to record their reactions on film.

The result? This fantastic video featuring twelve different scholars responding to different aspects of President Obama’s speech. The video is an annual tradition at Cato, but, so far, we like this one the best!
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Senator Rubio on FOX News' "The O'Reilly Factor"

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“[Inequality is] changing laws without congressional approval, and spying on American citizens without constitutional authority.”

◼ Six reasons why Mike Lee’s tea party response to the State of the Union was amazing - Patrick Howley/Daily Caller

Utah Sen. Mike Lee delivered a pretty amazing tea party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Lee’s speech was completely separate from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ official GOP response to the State of the Union.

Here are six reasons why Lee’s speech should be hand-delivered to every single Republican lawmaker and also broadcast most hours of the day on stadium Jumbo-trons and that big TV screen in the middle of Times Square... at the link.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Sen. Ted Cruz Reaction to the State of the Union Address

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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus - #SOTU Response

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Responses to the #SOTU

Bobby Jindal: In his State of the Union speech tonight, President Obama said he wants every child to have same chance this country gave him. Oh really? His Department of Justice is standing in the school house door in Louisiana.

The President’s rhetoric doesn’t match his action. His Department of Justice wants to keep low-income, minority children trapped in failing schools.

Tom Del Beccaro: #‎Obama‬ ‪#‎SOTU‬ lie: "The United States is more secure." America is not more secure with al Qaeda or Iran closer to a bomb/Middle East on fire

Darrell Issa Responds to State of the Union:



◼ ‘Highest approval in the building’: Politicians anxious to meet Willie Robertson at SOTU - Twitchy, Who Said What on Twitter

◼ A Small, Incoherent State of the Union Address - Stephen F. Hayes/Weekly Standard

The speech was long, more than an hour. At times it was defiant, at others it felt almost conciliatory. But mostly the speech was forgettable, disposable – a long list of modest policy proposals that will not be remembered for much longer than their echo in the House chamber.

◼ An Instantly Forgettable State of the Union Address - Guy Benson/Townhall
◼ Re-state of the Union - John Stossel/Townhall
◼ Republicans bash Obama for overstepping bounds - Politico

Marco Rubio: “I think it’s unfortunate, I think it’s divisive and quite frankly, borderline unconstitutional on many of those issues,” Rubio said. “I understand the [legislative] process takes long and can be frustrating, but I think it truly undermines the republic.”

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) said the president requested more controversial pieces of legislation — like immigration reform — than he did when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress.

“Suddenly he wants things that Republicans won’t give him that he didn’t ask Democrats to do — it seems like a lot of theatrics,” Huelskamp said. Huelskamp said he joked with fellow members that he’s going to file legislation that doesn’t require a presidential signature.
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Allen West: State of the Union response

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Paul Ryan: Conservative Reform Agenda Takes Shape



As we saw tonight, the President is intellectually exhausted. The Left is out of ideas. But I'm energized. Conservatives are leading an exciting debate. A reform agenda is taking shape. And I need your support to help take America in a new direction.
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