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Last year, Catholic adoption and foster care agencies were forced to close their doors because of an Illinois state mandate that they place children with same-sex couples against their convictions.

Now, on a nationwide scale, the Catholic church is being forced out of health care through abortion and birth control mandates, which violate their religious teachings.

Even a Democrat congressman recognizes the assault against religious liberty here is a serious threat.

Obama wants the government to take total control of healthcare and Catholic hospitals stand in their way. The mandate to require Catholic hospitals to provide abortion and birth control drugs is designed to force them to sell their hospitals to secular companies who will do whatever the government demands. Yet the media coverage has been practically nil.

Wake up, America!

Kathleen Gilbert reports at LifeSiteNews:

Two U.S. Congressmen, one Democrat and one Republican, have urged conservatives in strong terms to immediately fight the Obama mandate forcing religious institutions to provide free abortifacient birth control, calling it a “very, very real” threat to religious freedom. One of the congressmen call the mandate an attempt to push the church out of healthcare.

U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) told pro-life leaders this week not to underestimate the magnitude of the announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week that religious organizations like hospitals and universities have one year until they must comply with the order to provide the drugs free of copay.

Smith said that the order is in line with the Obama administration’s attack on conscience rights to pave way for a future where “abortion will be construed as preventive health care,” and “religious hospitals will be squeezed out.”

“We will have a situation where our faith-based hospitals will be on fire sale because they cannot participate,” said Smith. “They know that the Catholic Church and other churches are not going to capitulate. So they expect them to say, ‘Well, we’re out. We’re going to have to sell the hospitals.’ The threat is very, very real.”

“There’s a coerciveness about this administration unlike any I’ve seen before,” he added.

Lipinski said that immediate action must be taken against the mandate, and that the media’s deafening silence over the order was very troubling.

“I hope this doesn’t just become a rallying cry for the next election,” said Lipinski. “We need to immediately move on this. It did not receive enough attention whatsoever.”

“This is the first time I see a situation where we really are in danger of forcing people, essentially, to participate in a significant way in what they see as taking a life.”

Read more at LifeSiteNews

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If Romney honestly thinks Obamacare isn’t “worth getting angry about,” then he certainly isn’t the candidate worth turning out the vote for.

Jim Hoft reports at Gateway Pundit:

This will come back to haunt Mitt…
Mitt Romney told Rick Santorum this about Obamacare:
“It’s not worth getting angry about.”

Really?

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First Mitt told us he won’t back down on Romneycare. Tonight he told us not to get angry about it.

It gets worse.

Paul Scicchitano reports at Newsmax:

Norm Coleman, an adviser to presidential hopeful Mitt Romney whose advice was once described as “critical” by the candidate, believes that his boss — or any Republican — won’t be able to repeal Obamacare if they defeat Barack Obama.

“You will not repeal the act in its entirety, but you will see major changes, particularly if there is a Republican president,” Coleman told BioCentury This Week in an interview that aired Sunday, according to The Hill. “You can’t whole-cloth throw it out. But you can substantially change what’s been done.”

The Romney campaign put out a statement to counter the sting of the former Minnesota senator’s comments, which appear to contradict Romney’s public statements.

“With all due respect to Sen. Coleman, he’s wrong,” snapped campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul, reports The Hill. “Gov. Romney can and will repeal Obamacare and is committed to doing so.”

Proof once and for all that Romney is NOT the candidate we can count on in the fight to repeal Obamacare.

A candidate who can’t get his team on the same page regarding one the most electrifying issue galvanizing his party’s base has no business winning the nomination.

Erik Erickson observes at RedState:

We’ve had this dribble out at the Romney Fan Club over at National Review too — just fix it, don’t repeal it. There are practical reasons for doing so, but we should not lose our perspective. The base of the Republican party is energized by the prospects of complete repeal. All the candidates have said they would repeal it. Mitt Romney, within the past two years, flipped his position going from nibbling to full repeal.

In the South Carolina debate on CNN last week, Newt Gingrich said he did not trust the congressional staffs (plural) and would therefore insist on full repeal via reconciliation, which is how the Democrats passed it in the first place through the Senate. His was a wise point. The congressional staffs, both Democrat and Republican, have started functioning as an entrenched legislative branch bureaucracy both doing what they think best for the country even when the voters want otherwise.

In fact, the entrenched legislative bureaucracy has a great deal to do with congressional disapproval in the public. Republican staffers want to inch the ball down the field instead of fighting. Democrat staffers are far more aggressive.

If a Republican gets into the White House and does not sweat blood trying to repeal Obamacare in its entirety (regardless of success), I predict the end of the Republican Party legitimately. It won’t be worth fighting for if the party itself does not think it worth fighting for its voters. If the GOP takes back the White House, it’s voters will expect a real fight, not a half-hearted attempt.

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I don’t think Gingrich is the ideal candidate, but this is seriously out of control.

Mark Levin weighs in on the Alinsky-style GOP onslaught against Newt Gingrich:

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This is getting ugly.  The Romney campaign has pulled out all the stops to attack Gingrich in Florida, and many Republicans and conservative pundits have piled on with Alinsky-style tactics borrowed from the Left’s playbook.

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit calls it “Shock & Maul”:

In case you haven’t noticed – the Republican establishment and east coast Mittwits have declared war on torchbearer Newt Gingrich.
Dammit Republicans… Do what you’re told! Get in line and back the RINO!

Ann Coulter loses her conservative street cred by pushing Reagan-basher Mitt Romney, ofRomneycare fame, as the true conservative in the GOP race while bombing Newt.
Really Ann?… Really?

The Politico is tracking the war on Newt.

Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the “elite media” and liberals don’t read the Drudge Report this morning.

Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. Or Ann Coulter.

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If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.

It’s as if the conservative media over the past 24 hours decided Gingrich is for real, and they need to come clean about the man they really know before it’s too late. This is just a sampling of what’s hitting Newt:

• The overnight Drudge Report banner: “Insider: Gingrich repeatedly Insulted Reagan.” The headline linked to a devastating takedown by Elliott Abrams in the National Review, who wrote, among other things, that Gingrich had a long record of criticizing and undermining Reagan’s most transformative policies.

Read more at Gateway Pundit

Michael Reagan and Rush Limbaugh both hit back against the smear campaign:

Ronald Reagan’s eldest son Mike Reagan has issued a statement lambasting Mitt Romney and his supporters for claims that Romney’s Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich was a strong critic of President Reagan.

Reagan says such claims are false.

Even Rush Limbaugh, shocked by the Romney claims, chimed on his Thursday radio broadcast to say “This is obviously a coordinated attack to take Newt out here in Florida.”

Rush slammed the Romney-backed smear campaign against Newt.

“That kind of stuff is why people hate Romney so much,” Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh added that Newt has always been a conservative from his early days in national talk radio in the 1980s.

“He was perhaps the premier defender of Ronald Reagan,” Limbaugh said.

“I am deeply disturbed that supporters of Mitt Romney are claiming that Newt Gingrich is not a true Reaganite and are even claiming that Newt was a strong critic of my father.

“Recently I endorsed Newt Gingrich for president because I believe that Newt is the only Republican candidate who has both consistently backed the conservative policies that my father championed and the only Republican that will continue to implement his vision.

“It surprises me that Mitt Romney and his supporters would raise this issue — when Mitt by his own admission said he opposed my father in the 1980s claiming he was an ‘independent,’ and later supported liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas for president.

Read more at Newsmax

Sarah Palin, in a statement on Facebook, referred to the perpetrators as “Cannibals in GOP Establishment“:

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant. Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary.

Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008. The left seeks to single someone out and destroy his or her record and reputation and family using the media as a channel to dump handpicked and half-baked campaign opposition research on the public. The difference in 2008 was that I was largely unknown to the American public, so they had no way of differentiating between the lies and the truth. All of it came at them at once as “facts” about me. But Newt Gingrich is known to us – both the good and the bad.

We know that Newt fought in the trenches during the Reagan Revolution. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out, Newt was among a handful of Republican Congressman who would regularly take to the House floor to defend Reagan at a time when conservatives didn’t have Fox News or talk radio or conservative blogs to give any balance to the liberal mainstream media. Newt actually came at Reagan’s administration “from the right” to remind Americans that freer markets and tougher national defense would win our future. But this week a few handpicked and selectively edited comments which Newt made during his 40-year career were used to claim that Newt was somehow anti-Reagan and isn’t conservative enough to go against the accepted moderate in the primary race. (I know, it makes no sense, and the GOP establishment hopes you won’t stop and think about this nonsense. Mark Levin and others have shown the ridiculousness of this.)

To add insult to injury, this “anti-Reagan” claim was made by a candidate who admitted to not even supporting or voting for Reagan. He actually was against the Reagan movement, donated to liberal candidates, and said he didn’t want to go back to the Reagan days. You can’t change history. We know that Newt Gingrich brought the Reagan Revolution into the 1990s. We know it because none other than Nancy Reagan herself announced this when she presented Newt with an award, telling us, “The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century.  Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.” As Rush and others pointed out, if Nancy Reagan had ever thought that Newt was in any way an opponent of her beloved husband, she would never have even appeared on a stage with him, let alone presented him with an award and said such kind things about him. Nor would Reagan’s son, Michael Reagan, have chosen to endorse Newt in this primary race. There are no two greater keepers of the Reagan legacy than Nancy and Michael Reagan. What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque re-writing of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.

But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 that didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.

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Obama is deliberately implementing the Cloward-Piven strategy he learned as a “community organizer” for ACORN: hasten the fall of capitalism by recruiting so many people into government entitlement programs that the overloaded welfare state collapses under a flood of impossible demands, thus creating a societal crisis which opens the door for a socialist revolution. The agenda echos historical predecessors who enticed citizens into more dependency on a benevolent dictator.

John Merline writes at Investors Business Daily:

If the Republican primaries are any indication, one big debate in the upcoming election will be whether President Obama is pushing the country toward a European-style welfare culture.

Mitt Romney, for example, argues that “over the past three years, Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an entitlement society.”

Newt Gingrich has taken to calling Obama “the best food-stamp president in American history.”

Obama, in contrast, says the government must play an increasing role — what he likes to call “shared responsibility” — to ensure a society that is fairer.

So is Obama turning the country into a welfare society and away from one focused on opportunity?

While it’s true that the country has been headed in this direction for many years — with the explosion in entitlements since the 1960s and the aging of the population — Obama has, in fact, greatly accelerated the trend.

Read more at Investors Business Daily

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“… we try to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic, religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own…we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.”  ~ University Professor Richard Rorty

Santorum is right on target with this one.

Daniel Strauss reports at The Hill:

Rick Santorum accused President Obama of wanting Americans to go to colleges and universities that will indoctrinate them to be liberals.

“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college,” Santorum said Wednesday in Florida, according to CBS News. “The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?”

In Obama’s State of the Union speech a day earlier, he called on higher-education institutions to become more affordable or face funding cuts from the federal government.

“Higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said in his speech.

Santorum said that if higher-education institutions “taught Judeo-Christian principles,” “they would be stripped of every dollar.”

“If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them,” Santorum continued. “Because, you know, 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it.”

Read more at The Hill

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We hate you. Now give us your kids so that we can turn them against you.

Brainwashing U: Colleges’ sick ‘orientation’ game

Wish I could say I’m surprised.

Becket Adams reports at The Blaze:

“For more than two years, the Michigan Education Association [MEA] has had a manual that urges its members to use students as propaganda in contract negotiations and also lays out how to organize strikes,” writes Tome Gantert of Michigan Capitol Confidential.

Considering the fact that teacher strikes are illegal in Michigan, some may find it odd that the MEA has been encouraging this sort of behavior. In fact, the MEA has done a lot more than just “encourage” potentially illegal activity. As Gantert reports, the organization produced an anonymously written 28-page manual titled, “Building Full Capacity Locals — Crisis Planning, It’s Never Too Early To Start!”

While much of the rhetoric in this “crisis planning” handbook is unsettling (”The worst time to plan for a crisis is when you are in the middle of one, so crisis planning should commence at the same time that planning for actual bargaining begins”), perhaps the most disturbing moment occurs when one section appears to quote almost verbatim Saul Alinksy’s “Rules For Radicals.”

Alinsky instructs his followers to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Likewise, the MEA manual instructs teachers to “Pick a target—personalize—and polarize the opposition [pg. 17].” And those are just the verbatim quotes; the entire manual is a handbook for creating, managing, and profiting from crises.

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And of course, what union protest would be complete without the exploitation of children in the bargaining process?

“In terms of a bargaining message, the public responds most positively when we talk about children, quality in the classroom and the future,” the MEA manual states. “There may come a time when it’s appropriate to talk about money and benefits, but lay the groundwork first.”

The manual even suggests one slogan that it claims has worked for other locals: “It’s not about dollars and cents; it’s about our children.”

Read more at The Blaze

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• Unions’ new strategy: Intimidation for dummies
• NEA Foundation Gives Grant To Create Activists…Out Of 1st & 2nd Graders
• Teachers Union Recommends its Members Read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”
• Fantastic Resource for Conservative and Christian Teachers

If there’s one thing the Narcissist-in-Chief can’t stand, it’s being exposed for the fool that he is.  From Netanyahu schooling him to his face on foreign policy, to Paul Ryan standing up to him in budget talks, Obama doesn’t take it well when the people he tries to bully refuse to be intimidated.

He’s so condescending and presumptuous, and has done so much damage to Gov. Brewer’s state, it must have taken every ounce of self restraint for her to keep from wiping that smug smirk off his face!

Countless drug cartel victims all across Arizona are DEAD because of him!

Kimberly Schwandt reports at Fox News:

President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer had what was described as an intense encounter on the tarmac after the president arrived in the Grand Canyon state on Wednesday.

Brewer greeted the president as he arrived off Air Force One, as governors often do when the president visits a state, and handed him a letter that she described as a “welcome” note to the state, and an invitation to talk about a comeback for her state.

“He immediately took umbrage, if you will with my book, ‘Scorpions for Breakfast,’ and was somewhat disgruntled, if you will, by the way he was portrayed,” Brewer later told Fox News in an interview with Greta Van Susteren. “He’s very thin-skinned.”

Read more at Fox News

Governor Brewer posted this statement on her Facebook page:

I greeted President Obama today in Arizona with the intention of talking to him about jobs and the economy.

However, after I greeted him, the President immediately turned the conversation to my book, Scorpions for Breakfast (www.scorpionsforbreakfast.com), criticized it and then walked away. He let me know that he didn’t like the way I recounted our meeting in the Oval Office after I signed SB 1070 in 2010.

The bottom line is our border is not secure and I again invited him to visit the Arizona border.

I believe America wants a secure border before addressing “comprehensive immigration reform” and granting amnesty to illegal aliens. On this issue, we’ll have to continue to disagree on what’s best for America.

I’ll keep fighting for Arizona and the rest of America who want a secure border.

The group “Stand With Arizona Against Illegal Immigration” observes:

A few hours after she was bizarrely confronted by Barack Obama on the airport tarmac, Gov. Jan Brewer went on KFYI’s Mike Broomhead Show to give us the details on what happened as the President faced off with the Arizona governor – generating national headlines and derailing his post-State of the Union message.

Brewer was stunned as Obama dispensed with the pleasantries and immediately scolded Brewer for her portrayal of their frosty, July 2010 Oval Office meeting in her memoir, Scorpions for Breakfast.

Brewer said Obama was “uh, a little tense”. She said she tried to show respect but that Obama acted “thin-skinned”, and complained about how she described their earlier meeting, in which Brewer made clear how little time she was given to speak, and how Obama condescendingly lectured her about immigration reform, and did not want to hear about border violence and the costs of illegal aliens to Arizona.

Keith Koffler explains at White House Dossier:

In her book, titled ”Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border,” Brewer writes that Obama was “condescending” to her during an June 2010 Oval Office meeting they had to discuss border security.

The meeting occurred after she had signed SB 1070, a state law that toughened enforcement of immigration laws and required law enforcement officers to attempt to determine an individual’s status when there is “reasonable suspicion” they may be an illegal alien.

Brewer wrote that during the White House meeting she sought to explain the situation in Arizona to Obama, but got a lecture instead.

“It wasn’t long before I realized I was hearing the president’s stump speech,” she wrote. “Only I was supposed to listen without talking.”

Allahpundit remarks at Hot Air:

You would think the fact that he’s disliked by every Republican in the universe except, I guess, Jon Huntsman would have inured him to criticism from the right by now, but no. In fact, over at the Standard, Jonathan Last remembers that this isn’t the first angry confrontation he’s had with a GOP governor on the tarmac. He once surprised Bobby Jindal by whining about a letter Jindal had sent to Tom Vilsack regarding food stamps. O was in Louisiana that day for a visit related to the BP oil spill but turns out he was preoccupied with the idea that Jindal’s letter had made him look bad. Go figure.

Here’s a bit about the Obama passage in Brewer’s book that has The One so exercised. Our Barack, “condescending” and “patronizing”? Again, go figure:

“It was though President Obama thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee,” the governor wrote, calling his tone “patronizing.”

“He thinks he can humor me and then get rid of me,” Brewer wrote.

Questioned about the different description, the governor said she did not lie.

“I mean, we weren’t yelling at one another, screaming at one another,” she said.

“But it was a pretty one-sided conversation,” Brewer said. “He was, I believe, condescending. And he was lecturing me about what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.”

Audio: Jan Brewer on l’affaire tarmac

Judge Throws Out Arizona’s Lawsuit Against Obama Administration For Failing To Secure The Border

Brewer condemns State Dept. report citing AZ law as example of human rights violation

Gov. Brewer: Obama giving twice as much money to Mexico as Arizona

Obama to Arizona Governor: Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You

Obama discussed immigration with Mexico, but never Arizona

George Soros built his fortune by taking advantage of crisis situations all over the world, some of which he even manufactured himself.  When he makes a prediction, it’s because he’s essentially giving the green light to his minions, scaring his opponents and essentially telling the markets where to go. His comments after 9/11 helped send stocks into a tailspin a week after the fact.

He’s the force behind the Democrats’ “Shadow Party,” a network of Leftist organizations that do the dirty work behind the scenes to advance globalist socialism.  Obama and Hillary Clinton both came out of this shadow network of Marxist radicals.

Soros is also a primary funder of “Occupy Wall Street,” so there’s no question in my mind that he’s funneling the cash to the most radical factions that are pushing for a Marxist revolution.

Aaron Klein writes at World Net Daily:

Billionaire George Soros is predicting protests by Occupy Wall Street will turn violent, while warning the U.S. financial system may collapse.

In an interview with Newsweek writer John Arlidge, Soros reportedly said riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable.

“‘Yes, yes, yes,’ he says, almost gleefully,” when asked about the prospect of Occupy turning violent, writes Arlidge.

Soros claimed the riots will “be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”

“At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” Soros continued.

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros said.

“We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse,” he said.

“The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”

In the interview, Soros claimed the Occupy Wall Street movement “is an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest.”

However, WND has repeatedly documented the billionaire’s many ties to Occupy, including how the group’s reported nerve center is staffed by professional agitators deeply linked to organizations funded by Soros.

Those groups, most prominent among them being the Tides Center, have been involved with Occupy since the anti-Wall Street movement’s inception.

Read more at World Net Daily

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Many conservatives are having trouble understanding why Newt seems to be gaining the support of so many Tea Partiers.  I don’t blame them.  I’ve wondered the same thing myself.  The problem is that ALL the front runners are “progressive” when it comes to Big Government. The question now is, who can beat Obama and most easily be pressured and held accountable by the Tea Party and Legislative branch once in office? It appears that many Tea Partiers have decided that Newt fits that bill.

In addition, Tea Partiers love hearing him fearlessly attack Obama’s Alinsky roots, the socialist Occupiers, and the destructive Marxist agenda of the Left, which so far neither of the other front runners have been willing to do.

Ann Coulter made the point that calling Obama a “socialist” and going after his radicalism, while galvanizing Tea Partiers, would probably scare off independent and undecided voters.  But I’m not convinced independents consider that kind of rhetoric “scary.” Obama and his team are out there smearing conservatives as evil robber barons who beat their wives and kick puppies. The undecided voters don’t get turned off by his tactics – they end up believing the accusations because the GOP never hits back and exposes the lies for what they are. If we don’t hit back, we not only look weak, we look guilty.

Newt knows history. He knows that Reagan won in a landslide by unabashedly exposing Leftism for the evil that it was and MAKING THE ARGUMENT for conservative principles (though Newt certainly doesn’t have the personal conviction Reagan did).  Making the argument doesn’t alienate independents or undecided voters, as the “moderates” constantly warn. Rather, it inspires people to think of the world differently than the Left has always told them to.

For many who don’t remember Reagan, conservative ideas are new and inspiring concepts.  So is the idea that there ARE legitimate arguments against – and successfully proven alternatives to – Leftist policies.   No national Republican figure since Reagan has been the argument so unabashedly and forcefully.   Instead, they’ve either tucked their heads low and glossed over conservative positions for fear of media backlash, or they’ve watered them down with compromised positions to placate the Left.  Americans are looking for conservatives who aren’t ashamed to make the argument for what we know is right.

J. Robert Smith writes at American Thinker:

On Monday’s broadcast, Rush Limbaugh pegged the reason why Newt Gingrich is gaining so much traction in the GOP presidential sweepstakes:  Newt’s articulating conservatism.  Newt is a “vessel” for grassroots conservatives who want a GOP nominee who actually makes the case for conservatives confidently, persuasively, and without any hedging or apologies.

Think about Rush’s point, ye who are quick to disparage the grassroots for cheerleading Newt.

After all, where’s the passion for Newt Gingrich?  That’s Newt the man – the personally flawed man whose political path hasn’t exactly been a straight line.

Speaker Gingrich helped balance budgets; consultant Newt shilled for the profligate Freddie Mac.  American Solutions Newt called for a fundamental overhaul of the EPA; Newt the DC insider cut a commercial with Nancy Pelosi doing a green song and dance.  Historian Newt speaks admiringly of FDR; presidential candidate Newt never fails to call himself a Reagan Republican (when did Romney last do that?).

Grassroots conservatives are hungering for candidates who aren’t going to triangulate; they don’t want a candidate like Romney, who’s top-heavy with hired guns trying to concoct a formula just to win.  Of course, GOP candidates need to win.  Wrapping the flag around oneself and jumping off a cliff, as Ronald Reagan was wont to say, doesn’t advance the cause.

What grassroots conservatives are saying, via the Gingrich rise, is that GOP candidates can win carrying the arguments for conservatism to voters.  The Republican establishment lacks the confidence (perhaps, the conviction) to go to the voters as unapologetic conservatives. 

Read more at American Thinker

Still, this race is far from over. It’s anybody’s guess how this will pan out. The Tea Party really needs to focus on the Senate and Congressional races, because unless we have strong majorities in both, the White House will have no accountability.

Poll watcher: Newt Gingrich surges in national polls

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For the first two years of his presidency, Obama and his party controlled congress and a filibuster-proof majority in the senate.  That’s how they rammed through Obamacare, a multi-billion dollar stimulus, the Chris-Dodd takeover of the financial industry, cash-for-clunkers, and several other Big Government agenda items.   His party in the Senate has refused to pass a budget for over 1000 days, despite the constitutional mandate that they do so.

Obama didn’t have anybody with the power to stand in his way until the new Republican majority was sworn into congress in Jan 2011.  Now, he wants to blame his three years of failed policies on the so-called “do-nothing” congress, smearing them as “obstructionist.”   He fails to mention that although congress has passed 30 bills focused on job creation, ALL OF THEM have been deliberately tabled by Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled senate.  They’re more concerned with creating a crisis to blame on Republicans than with helping unemployed Americans find work.

Obama can’t run on his failed policies and hugely unpopular “accomplishments.”   Smear campaigns are all he has left to run on.

From the Wall Street Journal:

President Obama delivered a State of the Union address Tuesday night that by the account of his own advisers is more campaign document than a plan for governing. He’s running against Republicans in Congress, Reaganomics, wealthy bankers and inequality.

Normally a President at the start of his fourth year would be running on his record, accentuating the legislation he’s passed. Mr. Obama can’t do that with any specificity because the economic recovery has been so weak and the legislation he has passed is so unpopular. So last night he took credit for the shale gas revolution he had nothing to do with and proposed new policies to “spread the wealth around,” as he famously told Joe the Plumber in 2008 before he took the words back. We thought he meant it then, and now he’s admitting it.

Perhaps this will work if Republicans nominate a standard-bearer who is damaged, or too cautious or guilty to challenge this politics of envy. Mr. Obama clearly has Mitt Romney and his 14% effective tax rate in his sights (see the editorial nearby). The President will try to portray Mr. Romney as Mr. 1%, and if the Republican settles for defending the current tax code, he will lose. He needs a tax reform proposal of his own, as well as the self-confidence to argue for it in the same moral terms that Mr. Obama will attack him.

Meantime, as Mr. Obama begins his fourth year in power it’s a good moment to recount the economic record that he’d rather not talk about. The President inherited a deep recession, but in political terms that should have been a blessing. History shows that the deeper the recession, the sharper the recovery, and Mr. Obama was poised to take credit for the economy’s natural recuperative powers. Instead, we’ve had the weakest recovery since the Great Depression and stubbornly high joblessness.

The nearby chart compares rates of quarterly growth during the Reagan and Obama economic recoveries. The comparison is apt because both recoveries followed deep recessions in which the jobless rate reached more than 10%. Once the Reagan recovery got cooking, in 1983, growth stayed above 5% for 18 months and never fell below 3.3% for 13 consecutive quarters.

In the Obama recovery, growth has never exceeded 4% in any quarter and fell off markedly in mid-2010 through the third quarter of 2011. For the first nine months of 2011, growth averaged less than 1.2%. The economy finally picked up again in the fourth quarter, but still at a rate that is subpar for a recovery that long ago should have become robust and durable.

As he runs for re-election, Mr. Obama is trying to campaign as an incumbent who is striving to help the economy but has been stymied at every turn by Congress. Not even MSNBC can believe this. For two years he had the largest Democratic majorities in Congress since the 1970s and achieved nearly everything he wanted.

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2012 State Of The Union Address: Obama Declares Himself King

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Lecturing Americans about “income equality” and how the rich aren’t paying their “fair share” as your wife applauds in her $2400 dress…priceless.

Now, the truth is, conservatives don’t care how wealthy people spend their money.  It’s their money, and none of our business.

Nobody would care what Michelle was wearing if she, her husband, and their ruling class cohorts weren’t being so hypocritical about demonizing people who earned the right to live the same lifestyle that they enjoy.  The difference is, those Americans do it with money they EARNED, not forcibly confiscated from others.

Marti Lotman reports at Newsmax:

Michelle Obama’s choice of a $2,400 designer dress for her husband’s State of the Union address Tuesday night drew catwalk catcalls today from talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

“When I saw her, when they introduced her walking down the aisle to her seat, I said, ‘Where is she? Does she think she’s in Davos? Is this a cocktail party?’” Limbaugh said caustically to a caller on his radio show as he lambasted the first lady’s wardrobe choice.

Limbaugh said his people had checked around and found that the dress retails at Barney’s for a cool $2,400.

“So she shows up at the class warfare rally last night in the House chamber wearing a $2,400 cocktail dress!”

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It’s amazing how much of Obama’s speech was recycled almost verbatim from his previous SOTU. He sounds like a broken record!

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Even more embarrassingly, he misquoted Abraham Lincoln and stole his punchline, “built to last,” from a Ford ad campaign.

Just goes to show, he really is out of ideas.  All he knows is how to do is rip off other people’s ideas or trumpet the same old, tired mantra of failed talking points.

2012 State Of The Union Address: Obama Declares Himself King

No, I’m not exaggerating.

Tonight’s speech was all about Obama.  How he’s the man with all the answers to our problems.  How innovation and job creation aren’t possible without government funding, mandates and centralized planning.   How our Constitutional Republic is “broken,” congress is “obstructionist,” the old-fashioned Executive branch hasn’t been granted enough power, and he will therefore rule by executive fiat from this point forward.

Obama gives government credit for all the achievements of free enterprise, and blames the free market for all the adverse consequences of misguided government policies.  It doesn’t get much more Orwellian than that.

National Journal has the full text of this 65-minute nightmare, but I’ll spare you and stick to the highlights:

Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.

Campaign speech begins with patting himself on the back for bringing the troops home prematurely so he could score political points for his re-election.

We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

More respected???  Apparently someone forgot to tell Iran, North Korea, Egypt, Pakistan…

The Taliban’s momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home.

That’s why you’re negotiating to surrender the country to them while they attack our embassy, torture women, murder innocent civilians, and train 5-year-olds in terror camps?

These achievements are a testament to the courage, selflessness, and teamwork of America’s Armed Forces. At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together. Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example.

Blame the other side for “not working together.” Check.  Clearly leave out the point that in the military, disobeying orders or allowing every foot soldier to have an opinion would get them killed.  In civilian life, however, dissent is not dangerous but “patriotic,” remember?  Or are you suggesting that all Americans should pretend we live under a military dictatorship and ”follow their example” of unquestioning obedience?

A future where we’re in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren’t so tied to unstable parts of the world…

If you’re interested in energy independence, stop blocking the Keystone pipeline!

An economy built to last…

…by the central planners.  Because Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler proved that command economies work sooo well.

We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by…

This is a “straw man,” based on the “Zero Sum Myth” that wealth can only grow among one group by making another group poorer.

‎Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

That’s what’s known as the FREE MARKET.  People are free to pursue success or fail, based on their skills, talents, work ethic, and wise or foolish choices.  The “fair share” argument isn’t necessary because people who are free to keep the fruits of their labor tend to work harder, while those are forced to surrender what they produce for the good of the “collective” lose their motivation and begin to slack off.   The “same set of rules” applies to the rule of law, where no man, woman, company, politician or government is above the law.

Let’s remember how we got here…In 2008, the house of cards collapsed. We learned that mortgages had been sold to people who couldn’t afford or understand them. Banks had made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money. Regulators had looked the other way, or didn’t have the authority to stop the bad behavior.

Revisionist history at its finest.  Government policies, such as the infamous “Community Reinvestment Act,” were responsible for the relaxing of lending standards.  In fact, banks were REQUIRED by regulators to make loans to low income families who couldn’t pay them back, or face penalties for “discrimination.”   The banks found a way to pass the risk on to investors rather than their depositors.   But the blame primarily lies with government meddling in the lending and financial industries, creating a bubble and bust that they then exploited to seize further control and blame on the “free market” (which, of course, hadn’t really be free at all).

I intend to fight obstruction with action…

Translation: if congress won’t roll over and play obedient serfs, I’ll flush the constitution and rule by executive fiat. I’m already well in practice.

Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last…

Blueprint: code for central planning. Only government-controlled, command economies require “blueprints” from elites who think they can design and control a marketplace that involves millions of people making millions of choices for their own self-interest. The arrogance of thinking you can centrally plan something like that without destroying the market – and all the people whose liberties you are trampling in the process – is mind boggling.

On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences.

“Help” = bailout.  ”Responsibility” = government strings attached.  Both of which were unconstitutional.  So was violating contracts and handing the auto industry over to his union cronies by executive fiat.

What’s happening in Detroit can happen in other industries.

Let’s hope not!

So we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back.

Manufacturing would never have left if it weren’t for all the oppressive regulations, taxes union demands, and Nanny State interference that makes them unable to compete.

We should start with our tax code. Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Meanwhile, companies that choose to stay in America get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. It makes no sense, and everyone knows it. So let’s change it.

Think he’s suggesting reducing those “highest tax rates in the world?”   Of course not!   Instead, special tax breaks and favors for government-approved industries and activities. THAT’S what he calls “everyone playing by the same set of rules?”

“…no American company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas.”

‎No company should be able to escape my oppressive policies by heading to more business-friendly countries. Punish them!

It’s time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in America.

In a free market, the customer “rewards” which companies they think are most worthy simply by voting with their dollars.  But Obama prefers that HE pick the winners and losers in the marketplace.  Because, you know, he knows so much better than you.

I set a goal…I signed…I will go anywhere…

I….I….I…. Was this supposed to be about the state of the UNION, or about HIM?

I’m announcing the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trade practices in countries like China.

Hold China accountable. Good luck with that, seeing as they pretty much own us thanks to your out-of-control borrowing and spending.

Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job.

I want to reorganize the entire education and job training system, even though my entire lifetime management experience consists of the last three years driving our country to the verge of bankruptcy.

‎But challenges remain. And we know how to solve them.

WE, THE ELITES. All you little people just need to do what you’re told.

‎Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them….

Another “straw man.”  Whose bashing them, you liar??

Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility…

More government-controlled education. Heaven forbid we open them up to competition and let parents choose for themselves!

Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. Extend the tuition tax credit we started that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars.

Fix prices and control the student loan market. Because we’d never admit that it’s government subsidies that caused tuition prices to skyrocket in the first place.

States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets.

Now he’s telling states how to spend their money. Hey Obama, maybe individual states know better than the federal government. Stay out of their business!

…hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another challenge: The fact that they aren’t yet American citizens.

Here comes amnesty…more Democrat voters just in time for 2012!

…my Administration has put more boots on the border than ever before.

You mean the ones you just withdrew and left the border exposed??

‎”…an economy built to last…”

If we build it, they will come…never mind that every experiment in centrally-designed command economies throughout history have been an abject failure.

Today, the discoveries taking place in our federally-financed labs and universities…

Government, government, and more government. Apparently there’s no such thing as innovation or job creation without their control, funding or permission.

Support the same kind of research and innovation that led to the computer chip and the Internet…

Earth to Obama: neither of these ideas came from government funding or support. BOTH were private sector innovations.

‎I’m directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources.

After killing Keystone? I’ll believe it when I see it!  Or were you planning on restricting the drilling permits to your Brazilian pals?

…last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years.

That’s because our economy came to a SCREECHING HALT!

And by the way, it was public research dollars…reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses…

Emphasis on PUBLIC research dollars. Because the evil gas companies would never develop a resource unless government “supported” them. Uh, Obama, ever heard of the PROFIT MOTIVE??

‎Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled.

And 6.5 BILLION of that taxpayer money was flushed into 12 bankrupt companies, never to be seen again.

‎I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.

As long as I have access to your money, I will continue to piss it away on whatever failed projects I want!

‎…spur energy innovation with new incentives.

Oh, goody, more SPENDING!!

But there’s no reason why Congress shouldn’t at least set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation.

Yes, there is: because onerous energy mandates put undue burden on industries and HURT the market.  They only thing they “create” is unemployment!

‎So far, you haven’t acted. Well tonight, I will.

I don’t care if the constitution gives me the power or not, I’m giving myself dictatorial powers because I WANT IT!

Help manufacturers eliminate energy waste in their factories…

And by “help,” we mean more EPA regulations to bankrupt your factory.

‎In the next few weeks, I will sign an Executive Order clearing away the red tape…

Who needs congress? I am KING!

‎I’m sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage…

Here it is, folks: bribing voters with mortgage relief! Vote for me, and you get to keep your house!

…we need smart regulations to prevent irresponsible behavior.

More regulations because you “little people” would act irresponsibly if we didn’t step in and save you from yourselves.  The ruling class will decide what the peasants can earn, what they can keep, what they can buy, from whom, and for what price.

‎I’ve ordered every federal agency to eliminate rules that don’t make sense.

Anything that doesn’t fit into my socialist utopian agenda. Because, you know, THAT makes sense!

I will not back down…I will not go back…

I am the Obamessiah! I am your savior!  I am smart enough to design our entire economy and run all your businesses!

…if you’re a big bank or financial institution, you are no longer allowed…You’re required…because the rest of us aren’t bailing you out ever again…

We used taxpayer money to bail you out so we could take you over.  We own you now.  You don’t sneeze without our say so.  Welcome to the Chicago way!

Today, American consumers finally have a watchdog in Richard Cordray…

Plugging his unconstitutional appointment…nah, nah, nah, nah, nah….

‎We will also establish a Financial Crimes Unit of highly trained investigators to crack down…

Do it our way, or we’ll break your knees. That’s the Chicago way.

‎…our most immediate priority is stopping a tax hike on 160 million working Americans…

We don’t want them to contribute to their own Social Security accounts. We want the rich to pick up the slack for other people’s retirement and turn it into a massive redistribution program.

..what was supposed to be a temporary tax break for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans.

Here comes the class warfare…eat the rich!

…because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households.

Can someone please explain ‘double taxation’ via capital gains to this idiot?

Do we want to keep these tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans? Or do we want to keep our investments in everything else…? Because if we’re serious about paying down our debt, we can’t do both.

False either-or choice from the man who pretends to be worried about debt after maxing out the debt ceiling four times in ONE YEAR.

If you make more than $1 million a year…if you make under $250,000 a year…

You’re no longer allowed to be more successful than $250,000 dollars a year, or we’re going to confiscate your “unfair” achievement.  Government should decide how much of your hard-earned earnings you can keep. The more you make, the fewer rights you have to your own property. We believe in forced “equality”, not equal property rights before the law!

…you can call this class warfare all you want…we don’t begrudge financial success in this country…it’s not because they envy the rich…

This is not class warfare.  It’s Marxism.  Don’t you feel better now?

‎That’s an America built to last.

We just have to tear down that old-fashioned constitutional republic, first.

‎Washington is broken.

NO, IT’S NOT. It’s working EXACTLY the way it was supposed to, with checks and balances to put a HALT to power grabs like YOURS!

Send me a bill that bans insider trading by Members of Congress.

Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

‎Some of what’s broken has to do with the way Congress does its business these days.

They’re not just giving me what I want! This must change!

I ask the Senate to pass a rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days.

Asking the Senate to change their rules so he can ram more radicals into office without being vetted.

‎The executive branch also needs to change. Too often, it’s inefficient, outdated and remote. That’s why I’ve asked this Congress to grant me the authority to consolidate….

CENTRALIZED POWER is crucial to centralized economic planning. Learned that lesson from Mussolini.

No joke. And he means it.

‎That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.

Name ONE thing you don’t believe government can do better than individuals, Obama. ONE THING.

‎…we should all want a smarter, more effective Government.

No, we want a Government that adheres to the constitution and STAYS OUT OF OUR LIVES!!

With or without this Congress, I will keep taking actions…

I’m declaring the constitution dead. I am KING!

…a wave of change has washed across the Middle East and North Africa, from Tunis to Cairo; from Sana’a to Tripoli…

Praising the “Arab Spring” radical Islamic uprisings. Muslim Brotherhood pals seen nodding in approval.

Look at Iran…The regime is more isolated than ever before.

Russia, China, Venezuela beg to differ.

‎The renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe.

What parallel universe is he living in??

Our oldest alliances in Europe and Asia are stronger than ever. Our ties to the Americas are deeper. Our iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history. We’ve made it clear that America is a Pacific power…

How many lies can you cram into one speech?  I lost count!

…anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Because Obama’s such an expert on foreign policy.  He knows there’s such a thing as an “English” embassy and they speak “Austrian” in Austria. You critics don’t know what you’re talking about!

I’m proposing a Veterans Job Corps…

How on earth did all those veterans after WWII get jobs and create a post-war economic boom without government holding their hands the whole way?

Which brings me back to where I began…

Geeze. Already more than an hour. Wrap it up, already!

One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the SEAL Team took with them on the mission to get bin Laden.

Knew he had to spike that football.

Some may be Democrats. Some may be Republicans. But that doesn’t matter. Just like it didn’t matter that day in the Situation Room, when I sat next to Bob Gates – a man who was George Bush’s defense secretary; and Hillary Clinton, a woman who ran against me for president. All that mattered that day was the mission. No one thought about politics. No one thought about themselves.

Painting himself as the man who doesn’t care about party or politics. Can I puke now?

When I was sitting in the situation room…

Patting himself on the back yet again for showing up for the photo op to watch our SEALS do the heavy lifting, after he’d dawdled about making the decision to send them in?

‎No one built this country on their own. This Nation is great because we built it together.

We’ve never stood for individual liberty. We’ve ALWAYS been a nation built on collectivism. Dontcha know?

Obama gives government credit for all the achievements of free enterprise, and blames the free market for all the adverse consequences of misguided government policies. It doesn’t get much more Orwellian than that.

Seriously.  I need some comic relief now:

Tim Hawkins – The Government Can

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Obama’s Coup to Overthrow the Constitution

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State of the Union 2012: Losing the future

The verdict is in: Obama’s State of the Union campaign speech was hyper-partisan and full of self-congratulation,  failed ideas, cheap shots, misplaced blame and outright lies.

Senator Rand Paul gave his own brief personal response:

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Herman Cain gave the “official” Tea Party response (which means that some of the larger Tea Party groups asked him to speak):

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Tea Party Patriots put out this prepared response:

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And Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels gave the official Republican response:

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Also, the RNC came out swinging with this new hard-hitting ad illustrating the TRUE “state of the union”:

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State of the Union 2012: Heritage Reaction Roundup

Ouch! Associated Press Fact Check gives Obama’s SOTU speech the smack-down

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Hilarious: Occupiers Giving “State Of The 99%” Response To SOTU via “human microphone”