On the post SOTU analysis just after Ernst's response Michael Steele tried to defend her by saying that while she didn't have much detail, so was Obama. That was just an absurd claim.
The President had a comprehensive plan of action on how to raise the wages and standard of living for the middle class: he argues for a rise in the minimum wage. an increase in overtime, paid sick leave, equal pay for women and many other proposals.
What did Ernst have? She had some touching folksiness-this is a woman who castrates pigs-but her jobs proposal that is supposed to counter the President's? It amounts to one thing: the Keystone pipeline which will maybe create 42,000 temporary jobs and 34 permanet ones-that's 34.
The rest of her speech was about ISIS. The GOP clearly wants lots of table pounding on ISIS and she spoke a lot more about this than she spoke about the GOP economic agenda-which comes down to one thing: Keystone.
The one thing nobody can ever call today's GOP is being in too much unity and harmony as they had no less than 5 GOP responses. There was also the Spanish language version of Ernst-which is legitimate. However, besides that we had a Tea Party response as well as both a Rand Paul and Ted Cruz response.
No doubt, though, that Ernst is the official Republican party establishment response and it is as usual very low on policy. Those who want to claim that being a conservative is about more than being a reactionary need to explain why all today's GOP ever wants to do is overturn what the President already did: ie, just react to him with very little meat on their own policy bone.
The President had a comprehensive plan of action on how to raise the wages and standard of living for the middle class: he argues for a rise in the minimum wage. an increase in overtime, paid sick leave, equal pay for women and many other proposals.
What did Ernst have? She had some touching folksiness-this is a woman who castrates pigs-but her jobs proposal that is supposed to counter the President's? It amounts to one thing: the Keystone pipeline which will maybe create 42,000 temporary jobs and 34 permanet ones-that's 34.
The rest of her speech was about ISIS. The GOP clearly wants lots of table pounding on ISIS and she spoke a lot more about this than she spoke about the GOP economic agenda-which comes down to one thing: Keystone.
The one thing nobody can ever call today's GOP is being in too much unity and harmony as they had no less than 5 GOP responses. There was also the Spanish language version of Ernst-which is legitimate. However, besides that we had a Tea Party response as well as both a Rand Paul and Ted Cruz response.
No doubt, though, that Ernst is the official Republican party establishment response and it is as usual very low on policy. Those who want to claim that being a conservative is about more than being a reactionary need to explain why all today's GOP ever wants to do is overturn what the President already did: ie, just react to him with very little meat on their own policy bone.
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