Most of this segment covers whether the American public is “waking up” to the difference between Barack Obama’s rhetoric and his performance, but both Tim Pawlenty and Sean Hannity get to the details — especially on jobs and the economy. Pawlenty says that both Obama and Congress have stopped listening to the American people. Instead of pushing through big-spending, big-government programs, they should be “focused like a laser” on creating jobs and economic growth:
It has become obvious that the Tea Party movement tapped into a larger feeling among the majority that the Democrats had allowed their agenda to run off the rails. They voted for the Not-Bush in 2008, not a hard-Left progressive agenda of state control over vast swaths of the American economy. And while joblessness escalates, the Democrats seem to be dithering as much as Obama is on Afghanistan, afraid to admit that their $787 billion Porkulus has done nothing to foster job creation.
Pawlenty gets it right and offers a line of attack that the GOP should absorb quickly: the Democrats are far more interested in their own priorities than those of working (and increasingly non-working) Americans. They’re Nero to the economic Rome burning down all around them, fiddling with a health-care system that satisfies most Americans while watching more and more Americans lose their jobs.
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