GOP congressmen push Obama to address nation’s “dire financial straits” in the SOTU
In a letter delivered the to White House Friday, two Republican Congressmen requested that President Barack Obama “be open and honest with the American people” about the nation’s financial situation during his upcoming State of the Union address.
“It seems to me in order for us to address our big fiscal problems — debt, deficit, and entitlement reform — we are going to have to have the American people on the same page,” one of the letter’s authors Arkansas Republican Rep. Tim Griffin explained to The Daily Caller in a Friday interview.
In their letter to Obama, Griffin and Colorado Republican Rep. Cory Gardner demanded that the president specifically lay out data regarding the increase in the national debt, the per-person share of the debt, as well as Social Security and Medicare solvency.
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Cloward Piven working exactly as planned.
Grunt on January 12, 2013 at 8:15 AM
Who’s doing the GOP response?
I suggest a jeremiad in which the speaker thanks Obama for all his obligatory blather, but then turns on Obama by focusing in on three to five of Obama’s biggest financial fiascos. Explain what Obama has done or is doing. Explain how it will screw us over. And explain an alternative way to go.
Then end by saying, “Elections have consequences. Regretably, we Republicans believe that Americans will soon be suffering the consequences of their choices in the 2012 election.”
BuckeyeSam on January 12, 2013 at 8:21 AM
Now, you know that Frances Piven is just a harmless little old widow, who means us no harm, and simply misses her husband/co-author…/s
Clink on January 12, 2013 at 8:28 AM
The State of the Union, another Washington dog an pony show. If the congressional GOP had any sense they would they would tell him to put it in an email and stay home.
lowandslow on January 12, 2013 at 8:31 AM
Jugears needs the forum so he can slam Republicans and talk about about how cool and preezy and stuff he is.
SagebrushPuppet on January 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM
Obama: “I favor a balanced approach to deficit reduction”
MSM: “Sounds great! the Republicans need to stop blocking the balanced approach to deficit reduction”
forest on January 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM