Republican presidential candidates trotted out their favorite lines of attack against President Barack Obama in response to his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Though the GOP rivals don?t agree on much of anything these days, the chorus from the campaign trail could be heard loud and clear following Obama?s address: the president?s agenda won?t work.
Continue ReadingThough he wasn?t specifically named in the speech, Mitt Romney provided the perfect real-life example for the president as he proposed raising taxes on millionaires. Whether or not the timing was accidental, Romney released his tax record on Tuesday morning showing an annual income of $20 million and a tax rate of 15 percent.
But instead of hitting back, Romney outlined his own economic plan in post-speech interview with NBC.
Romney evoked Florida, the next state to vote in the primary season, and citied its 9.9 percent unemployment figure, which is higher than the national average.
?The idea that we?re on the right track is something which is very foreign to the people here,? he said.
Romney suggested that Obama had co-opted some of his own ideas. Earlier in the day, Romney delivered a more extensive ?prebuttal? of the Obama speech.
?A whole series of ideas that I?ve been speaking about, if you want the economy going. Lower corporate tax rates, of course he?s raised them,? Romney said. ?Lower the level of regulation, of course he?s added regulation at three times of his predecessor. Take advantage of all of our energy resources. He?s really held off on coal, on oil, on gas, on nuclear. Crackdown on China, those are things I?ve been saying.
?What he?s been doing is the exact opposite of that and that?s why it?s been so hard on this economy to recover,? Romney said.
Newt Gingrich dinged the president for proposing a tax increase on the wealthy. Gingrich, who frequently refers to Obama as the ?food stamp president,? continued that line of attack.
?Bigger government and higher taxes will instead lead to more people on food stamps, a situation which the President and his party defend as a fair outcome,? Gingrich said in a statement. ?Here we have to confront the truth about President Obama. Economic growth and prosperity is not really at the top of his agenda.?
Gingrich pointed to the Keystone Pipeline as an example of a failed Obama policy.
?Only recently, the president canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline that would have created countless new jobs and helped America on the way to energy independence because he wanted to appease the far left of his party,? he said. ?And yet not a single word on the Keystone XL pipeline tonight.?
Rick Santorum pushed the argument that Obama is engaging in class warfare, calling him the ?Divider-in-Chief? in a statement.
?Tonight Barack Obama transformed the President?s annual State of the Union address into the kick-off of his re-election campaign,? he said in a statement. ?From beginning to end, the American people heard more of the same ? empty promises and grand platitudes that will do nothing to help the millions of Americans who are unemployed or under-employed find a good paying job.?
And Ron Paul decried the fact that Obama didn?t mention the Federal Reserve and its role in denying Americans a ?fair shot,? as well as Paul?s efforts to bring transparency to the financial entity.
And Paul chastised Obama for failing to support his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul?s, recent run-in with the Transportation Security Administration.
?In the area of foreign policy and civil liberties, President Obama?s rhetoric may be different, but the substance of his polices - as shown by his administration?s defense of the TSA?s treatment of my son, Senator Rand Paul, is hardly ?change we can believe in,?? Paul said.
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