Roy Blunt Offers SOTU Prebuttal in GOP Address

[The Straight Story]

House GOP Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is presenting the official response to next week’s State of the Union address, but a top Senate Republican offered a prebuttal Saturday morning.

“When he delivers his State of the Union address this week, the President has a lot of explaining to do,” Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairman Roy Blunt said in the weekly GOP address.

“If all he has to offer is more of the same, or if he refuses to acknowledge that his own policies have failed to work — the President is simply doing what many failed leaders have done before him: trying to set one group of Americans against another group of Americans,” the Missourian said. “We don’t need more class warfare, and we don’t need more interference from Washington. No government program can replace what a good job means for the future of a family.”

In his remarks, Blunt continued GOP criticism of the health care law and again called for approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/roy-blunt-offers-sotu-prebuttal-in-gop-address/

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1. Hello, Roy

My dad retired at age 55 in 1988 from the good job that he got in 1956.

His employer - the US Government.

"No government program can replace what a good job means for the future of a family."

My current job is not the worst, it pays about 180% of the average Wal-mart wage.

My employer - a city Government.

Failed policies, sir? Are we, the people supposed to have forgotten WHOSE policies were in place when this "great recession" started? When did it start again? Was it in the 2nd half of 2008 when the US economy LOST 3.5 MILLION jobs?

I believe it was, Senator Blunt.

And who was President in 2008?

I believe it was George W. Bush.

If anybody, if any political party needs to acknowledge that their own policies "have failed to work" - it is yours, Senator Blunt.

Here, once again, are the facts on this http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021566043

And government programs? Let me quote myself reciting some facts -

"If not for the cutbacks in government spending that Republicans have been demanding, the economy would have added another 187,000 jobs over the last year (on top of the 1.76 million that it added, almost 200,000 more would have put us over 2 million as well as further stimulating consumer spending)."

Class warfare, Mr. Senator? It is YOU who are a shill and a foot soldier for that. It is YOU who continues to promote and pass failed policies which put money in the pockets of the rich at the expense of the majority of Missourians that you are supposed to be representing. It is YOU who votes for TRILLIONS of dollars in tax cuts for the richest 5% of Americans and then claim "the country is broke." So broke that we cannot help those "wounded travellers" that we cannot do anything for those living in poverty.

Are we supposed to have forgotten what George W. Bush said in his very first inaugural address?

"Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty. But we can listen to those who do. And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june01/speech_01-20.html

That's a noble goal, unfortunately the trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the well off, didn't trickle down this time either.

Again, Senator Blunt, if you want to find somebody who needs to admit that his policies have failed, I suggest you find yourself a mirror.

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2. Next during the SOTU they need to have a designated heckler.