Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Speaker of the House John Boehner has released a few excerpts from the rebuttal Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will give tonight following the President's State of the Union address:
“As Republicans our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life’s ladder. We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves.”
“The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy. It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach that breaks all ties and calls all close ones in favor of private sector jobs that restore opportunity for all and generate the public revenues to pay our bills.
“That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates. A pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise could be used to hire somebody. It means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy has gotten in years.”
“It’s not fair and it’s not true for the President to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions. They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down nearly time and again by the President and his Democrat Senate allies."
“No feature of the Obama Presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed, over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category. If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.”
“2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong. The year we strike out boldly not merely to avert national bankruptcy but to say to a new generation that America is still the world’s premier land of opportunity. Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen; who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them; who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in, and to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.”
Daniels is a great choice to offer the rebuttal.
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Jul '11
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Daniels is a great choice for something else too!
Jul '11
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oops
Edited on Jan 24 at 4:20pmMay '10
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
I love the line about serving the people rather than supervising them.
Dec '10
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Sorry, Mollie. Selected excerpts won't impress me as, by definition, there is more. How much backtracking and pandering will be in this rebuttal? I'll wager that anything coming will have quite a bit of both.
We won't know if Daniels was a good choice until we hear the whole thing, after it got filtered through the D.C. crowd.
Nov '11
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Me too.
Dec '11
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
I hate to say this, but the whole thing strikes me as bland pudding.
Dec '10
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My hope is that there's not a single line of agreement between the SOTU and the response except "God bless the United States of America." We need sharp contrast not flaccid agreement followed by whimpered platitudes about how much nicer we are.
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Sounds good. Perhaps we should draft him.
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
My quarrel with Daniels has always been that he is an uninspiring candidate, the PBJ on Wonderbread of presidential aspirants.
Having said that, the PBJ is looking pretty darn good right about now.
Nov '11
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves.
Good stuff. And I'm glad he calls the President out on his strategy of running against the Republicans in Congress.
What if he did get in? What if everyone from Jeb Bush to Jim DeMint came out for him and swung donors behind him? What if Romney realized the game was up and for the good of the country instructed his delegates to support him, and let his name on the ballot be a vehicle for the Daniels campaign in states that have passed their deadlines?
OK, not going to happen, I know. But I'm at the point where I'd go for it.
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Ben Domenech
My quarrel with Daniels has always been that he is an uninspiring candidate, the PBJ on Wonderbread of presidential aspirants.
Having said that, the PBJ is looking pretty darn good right about now. · 16 minutes ago
The year of the accountant!
Sep '10
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Ben Domenech
My quarrel with Daniels has always been that he is an uninspiring candidate, the PBJ on Wonderbread of presidential aspirants.
Having said that, the PBJ is looking pretty darn good right about now. · 16 minutes ago
The year of the accountant! · 1 minute ago
You didn't say the Year of the Accountant, did you? For a moment, I thought you said lion tamer.
Jul '10
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Ben Domenech
My quarrel with Daniels has always been that he is an uninspiring candidate, the PBJ on Wonderbread of presidential aspirants.
Having said that, the PBJ is looking pretty darn good right about now. · 16 minutes ago
The year of the accountant! · 1 minute ago
PBJ on Wonderbread always looks better when you can't have it.
In a completely unrelated vein... Mollie you're from CO, whatever happened to Bill Owens?
Dec '10
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I was lucky enough to be able to vote for Daniels twice for Governor of Indiana. While I'm now happily back home in Missouri, I do miss him. He is not to be underestimated. He may seem dull, but he can connect with voters. He is also willing to take on issues that would have sunk many political careers. He leased a state highway to a foreign company! He put Indiana on daylight savings time! He closed DMV offices and forced some people to drive an extra ten miles down the road to renew their license! I thought he was toast, but he coasted to re-election as Obama won Indiana.
And public employees (except me and a handful of others) hated him. He made all the right enemies.
Re: Mitch Daniels: Obama's Pro-Poverty Policy Is Extreme
Palaeologus
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Ben Domenech
My quarrel with Daniels has always been that he is an uninspiring candidate, the PBJ on Wonderbread of presidential aspirants.
Having said that, the PBJ is looking pretty darn good right about now. · 16 minutes ago
The year of the accountant! · 1 minute ago
PBJ on Wonderbread always looks better when you can't have it.
In a completely unrelated vein... Mollie you're from CO, whatever happened to Bill Owens? · 41 minutes ago
I think he had some personal issues. He's either divorcing right now or recently divorced.
May '11
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Click...next channel.
Reading that and listening with my mind's ear this is what I heard, "Blah, blah, Republicans, blah, blah, taxes, loopholes, blah, blah, Obama, debt, blah blah."
STORIES! It needs stories. Why is the debt bad? Tell a story that shows it. Why is it bad that Harry Reid's Senate has blocked every bill the House has passed? Tell a story to show it. Tell how an INDIVIDUAL could have been better off if only...
Peter! Please, re-write this for them. Stop them before they "pablum" again.
Nov '10
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Daniels makes good points, but his writing and his reading are too academic for the mainstream. I listened to the response, it sounded like a university lecture -- long compound sentences, lots of adjectives, lots of qualifying phrases. And ... listen to it again ... he has a tendency to a bit too much unmarked alliteration. By "unmarked" I mean it's inserted into his sentences and not highlighted. When Cain uses alliteration to make a point, it's explicit and he emphasizes it, which helps sear an outline of his argument in people's brains. But in this speech it just sounds like Daniels is trying to be clever. It's subliminal, and as an academic I enjoy it, but I doubt the common citizen's ear responds as positively. I think this reflects what Ben means by "uninspiring"; it's a presentation thing.
Nov '10
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I'm with Pilli. How about Peter and James mothball whatever current projects they've got going and do some general consulting on speech writing and delivery at this critical time for these folks?? Or Mark Steyn? You out there Mark? Or Andy Klavan.
This will segue nicely into the presidential race. Assuming Newt gets the nod, your job will be easy enough ... just bring some whiteout. And maybe a remote buzzer to send a signal to a device in his pocket for when he's heading in an unhelpful direction.