Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week President Obama came over to Congress to deliver his annual State of the Union Address. His speech focused heavily on something Republicans have been talking about for the last 6 years: helping the middle class. Occasionally the President even sounded as if he had stolen a line from Republicans, which I can assure you Republicans were happy to provide. Seriously, Republicans were glad to hear the President pivoting back to the middle class. Providing relief for the middle class is the Republican priority in the new Congress and we are eager to work with the President to get things done for American families. Unfortunately the President's speech didn't show the same willingness to work together. In fact, Wolf Blitzer from CNN said: ``I don't remember a State of the Union Address where I heard a President issue so many veto threats to the opposite party in the United States Congress.'' While it was good to hear the President focus on the middle class, his actual proposals for helping them left much to be desired, because unfortunately they were more of the same top-down, big government policies that have failed to help Americans over the past 6 years. For example, the President proposed a new tax on middle-class families' college savings accounts--the last thing families need when they want to save for their children to go to college.…”