in three short years, an unprecedented explosion of spending with borrowed money had added trillions to an already unaffordable national debt, and yet the president has put us on a course to make it radically worse in the years ahead. the federal government now spends one of every $4 in the entire economy. it borrowed every one of $3 that it spends. no nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive or survive in tact with debts as huge as ours. the president s grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. he seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. in fact, it works the other way. a government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class, and those who hope to join it. those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years
tonight, as the state of the union is airing in indiana, local indiana stations are also airing an ad, a labor ad, against indiana excuse me, against governor daniels, reminding him of the fact that he used to say that he did not support making indiana a right-to-work state. of course, a lot of republicans witch mitch daniels was running for president this year. karen finney, in terms of the partisan, the partisanship in tonight s speech, how tough was the president on republicans? how brightly did he draw those lines? did you see this particularly combative in partisan terms? not so much combative, but i think to what reverend al was saying, he was very clear in kind of getting these guys in the corner. when he talked about things he calls their bluff, for example, on infrastructure. he said, you know, we can do these things, but you ve got to send me the bill now. clearly a reference to the argument that republicans have been using against him about keystone. so in very specifi
response from mitch daniels and it s pugnacious, we saw speaker boehner pre-butting the speech calling it pathetic, using very sharp terms, going after it. what are you thinking what are you seeing tonight in terms of the republican attitude toward the president at this point in the presidency and this speech? rachel, an objective statement since the day he was inaugurated they sought to stymy his program. what an ironic position they took, they wanted to display the fact he couldn t cross party lines, he couldn t cross the aisle to make deals, because they believe from the beginning if he was successful in making deals with them, whether to have a compromise stimulus package, compromise on health care even, then he would succeed historically. i believe and i know the president believes that from the beginning they ve sought to kill his place in history by refusing
i have been looking through some of the excerpts of not just the president s speech tonight but also the anticipated republican response from mitch daniels and it s pugnacious, we saw speaker boehner pre-butting the speech calling it pathetic, using very sharp terms, going after it. what are you thinking what are you seeing tonight in terms of the republican attitude toward the president at this point in the presidency and this speech? rachel, an objective statement since the day he was inaugurated they sought to stymy his program. what an ironic position they took, they wanted to display the fact he couldn t cross party lines, he couldn t cross the aisle to make deals, because they believe from the beginning if he was successful in making deals with them, whether to have a compromise stimulus package, compromise on health care even, then he would succeed historically. i believe and i know the president believes that from the
also the anticipated republican response from mitch daniels and it s pugnacious, we saw speaker boehner pre-butting the speech calling it pathetic, using very sharp terms, going after it. what are you thinking what are you seeing tonight in terms of the republican attitude toward the president at this point in the presidency and this speech? rachel, an objective statement since the day he was inaugurated they sought to stymy his program. what an ironic position they took, they wanted to display the fact he couldn t cross party lines, he couldn t cross the aisle to make deals, because they believe from the beginning if he was successful in making deals with them, whether to have a compromise stimulus package, compromise on health care even, then he would succeed historically. i believe and i know the president believes that from the beginning they ve sought to kill