GOV. DANIELS HITS ONE OUTTA THE PARK….

While couldn't I just couldn't manage to make it all the way through Barry's campaign speech disguised as his State of the Union address last night, I was damn glad I was able to catch Gov. Mitch Daniel's as he presented the formal Republican response to it. Gov. Daniels was spot on as he made point after point how it is that Barry has resorted to “extremism” with stifling, anti-growth policies and continually tries dividing Americans. Just eight months after having decided not to pursue a bid for his party’s presidential nomination, Gov. Daniels used his nationally televised speech to lash out at Barry and cast the GOP as compassionate and eager to unchain the country’s economic potential. “No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant effort to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others,” Gov. Daniels said. Adding, “As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat."



Barry’s address, and Daniels’ speech, come at the dawn of a presidential and congressional election year in which the defining issues are the faltering economy and weak job market. Barry was ready to describe his vision of attaining “an economy built to last” and an emphasis on fairness, which includes protecting the middle class and making sure the rich pay an equitable share of taxes. Led by Daniels, Republicans were firing back that it was their party, not Barry’s, that understood the best way to trigger economic growth was to get the government out of the way. “The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly sane 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,” Gov. Daniels said. Gov. Daniels painted the perfect picture of what it is that Barry has created and wishes to expand upon.


He made the point, and I think very effectively, that Republicans prefer “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.” He went about the demonstrating the fact that, yes, there is, as Barry likes to continually reference, a very stark difference between what the two parties see as being the solution to our current economic and fiscal problems. And even a blind man should be able to readily see that what Barry is proposing has no more of a chance at success than has any of the other attempts he has made over the course of the last three years. It is time for a new approach, an approach that will encourage growth not stifle it and that will create an environment where those with the desire are willing to take the necessary risk. For without those people doing what it is that they do we have no chance whatsoever of being able to crawl out of this Barry created chasm.