RNC response to President Obama's speech

[steve2470]

link here if you wish to read it:

http://www.gop.com/index.php/news/comments/rnc_chairman_priebus_statement_on_president_obamas_latest_pivot_to_jobs_spe

[Ineeda]

1. Nothing there. Is this sarcasm? n/t

[gateley]

2. Here, I cut and pasted:

WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement in response to President Obama’s latest ‘pivot’ to jobs speech:

“In tonight’s address to Congress, President Obama yet again chose style over substance, leaving the 14 million unemployed Americans still waiting for reliable leadership that will get America working again.

“Instead of offering bold proposals to free job creators from excessive regulation and burdensome mandates, President Obama underwhelmed the country with empty rhetoric and calls for ineffective half-measures. Despite one failed stimulus, the President wants even more deficit spending.

“More of the same cannot achieve a different result. In the less than eight months, House Republicans have passed numerous bills to spur job creation, but the President has spent over two and a half years prioritizing the liberal agenda over the American worker. Tonight is no exception.

“This well-crafted speech peppered with catchy political slogans hardly merited a joint session of Congress. By breaking his latest promise of a ‘jobs plan,’ the President has once again failed the American people on his self-described ‘number one’ priority.”



Read more: http://www.gop.com/index.php/news/comments/rnc_chairman_priebus_statement_on_president_obamas_latest_pivot_to_jobs_spe#ixzz1XPOlEwes

[steve2470]

5. thanks, I was leery about posting this to DU lol nt

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. So I guess they won't be voting for it.

Next idea.

[sufrommich]

10. Assholes. All of them. nt

[gateley]

21. Well, we knew that.

:-)

This sounds almost as though the guy had this prepared and ready to go - saying the same old stuff they always say.

[steve2470]

3. no.. that link works for me, honest... I'll do a tinyurl now...

http://tinyurl.com/3g8zqbp

[DFab420]

6. I jsut think the GOP has run out of things to say....

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I couldn't get it to work, either. Maybe it's one of those faith-based websites.

:shrug:

[peacebird]

4. clearly written BEFORE they heard the speech....

but nonetheless that will be the meme spewing from repukes mouths for the next couple news cycles...

[notadmblnd]

7. Oh? They're not getting on TV to give it?

That's not normal. usually, there's five or six of them on the screen smirking and criticizing.

[steve2470]

8. I think Bachmann is doing the live tv "response" nt

[notadmblnd]

13. Where? So far I don't see anyone giving her any face time

[steve2470]

15. my bad apparently nt

[Raine]

12. No, they decided not to give a televised response. Anyway that's what they said on Morning Joke

a day or so ago. Also read a statement from Pelosi saying it was insulting that they weren't giving a TV response. :shrug:

[steve2470]

14. no televised response ? I am surprised nt

[steve2470]

16. Only Bachmann Gutsily Schedules Response to Obama's Jobs Speech

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/09/only-bachmann-gutsily-schedules-response-obamas-jobs-speech/42231/

reading the article more in depth now... a news conference scheduled by her.

[steve2470]

17. and here's a link confirming what you said:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/179783-no-formal-republican-response-planned-after-obamas-jobs-address

No formal Republican response planned after Obama’s jobs address

[Raine]

19. THANKS for the link, I didn't know for sure if I could believe Joe or not. nt

[notadmblnd]

20. That should be a post on it's own and then recced to the greatest page

just that sentence and just that link. I'd do it myself, but I'm not a paying member anymore. Not that I don't want to be....

[gateley]

22. Michael Steele is Boehner's spoksman? Huh? I didn't know that! nt

[Selatius]

11. Just toss the RNC response into the garbage. That's all there is.

They just call it advancing the liberal agenda over the working class, and then they insist they have passed major legislation in the House the past two years that spur job creation when all they've done is pass bills that play to their base but have no chance of passing in the Senate.