*****GOP RESPONSE OFFICIAL THREAD*****

[ellisonz]

Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana.

Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his first four-year term as governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. He was formerly Senior Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company, Indiana's largest corporation, where he was in charge of the corporation's business strategy. He is cited as a rising star in the Republican Party, and was widely speculated[1][2][3] to be a candidate for President of the United States in 2012 before choosing not to run.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Daniels

SOTU Threads:

Thread 1: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002215317
Thread 2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002215718
Thread 3: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002216128

[sakabatou]

1. I can already hear the talking points and BS.

[ellisonz]

3. "He cannot claim the last three years have made America anything but worse."

There you go.

[ellisonz]

2. Speaking from Indianapolis...

Lip service to Obama - "strong family commitment"

[Beaverhausen]

4. Blah blah blah. Liar

[Old and In the Way]

5. Mitch - the architect of George W. Bush's budgets.

You can't make this shit up.

[davekriss]

88. That's his MO, making stuff up

Remember, this is the man who told us the Iraq invasion would cost us $60 billion. He was only off by a f**kin' $trillion!

[Old and In the Way]

93. I remember Harold Natsios, another Bush spokesman in 2002, on Nightline.

He told us the invasion/occupation would cost $2BB, $3BB tops...the Iraqi people would be happily paying us for offing Hussein. They had no friggen' clue.

[ellisonz]

6. "The Presidents grand experiment in trickle down government"

"has held back rather than sped up recovery."

[rocktivity]

25. Trickle down goverment?

As in the kind that Gingrich and Reagan invented?


rocktivity

[lonestarnot]

7. Oh my gawd this obstructionist fucking liar! Blaming him for all their shit... We broke it but it's

your fault and you have fixed it yet meme. What bullshit.

[amuse bouche]

8. Blah..blah..blah

Duh and blah

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. Full of lies at the gate! LIES!!!

[El Supremo]

9. Fail!

Trickle-down government?

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. DOOM.....GLOOM.....DOOM.....GLOOM.....

And the pugs think that this kind of negativity will sell?

[Safetykitten]

12. "Bossy government"....hilarious!

[Moosepoop]

13. "A government as big and bossy as this one..." ??? n/t

[ellisonz]

14. "We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots."

"Our nation will aways be a nation of haves and soon to haves."

[NYC Liberal]

29. Is "soon to haves" the new right-wing euphemism for poverty?

[ellisonz]

40. Horatio Alger non-sense and what-not...

:

[NYC Liberal]

52. True, but at least he never denied there were poor people!

Seems like the Republicans are just going to start denying anyone is poor at all!

[ellisonz]

83. You're poor because you want to be poor...

...if only you worked harder you could be part of the "soon to haves."

[coalition_unwilling]

78. Mark Twain called them "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - n/t

[Spazito]

61. Geez, that sounds just like bush's appalling comment...

about his supporters "the haves and the have mores".

[barbtries]

97. he said that?

i sometimes wonder why they aren't struck by lightning right there, where they lie. and lie and lie and lie and lie.

[graywarrior]

15. Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z

[deutsey]

16. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz n/t

[graywarrior]

18. !

[deutsey]

44. Great minds snooze alike

[graywarrior]

58. This is a Snooze Fest

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Haves and Soon To Haves

That made coffee run out of my nose.

[npk]

30. The soon to haves

Are the children of the haves.

[Stinky The Clown]

45. Hahahaha

And if they're with child they're soon to have a soon to have.

[bullwinkle428]

19. Prediction : Freepers will find themselves falling in love with him by the end of the night!

[mindwalker_i]

80. With them bailing on Ann Coulter

What's a guy to believe about them?

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

20. Has there ever been a more charisma deprived politician?

Fucking hell...

[ellisonz]

31. "Scarred Face"

[Hepburn]

84. Boy, does that describe him to a "T"! n/t

[tblue37]

87. Yeah, there has--his name is Mitt Romney. nt

[Old and In the Way]

21. What a loser.

Sorry, he's reading this for the 1st time. It sucks, he has no sense of delivery. Perfect responder and response from the republicans.

[lonestarnot]

22. Just how many jobs have you created there motherfucker? We know we know ZERO!

ZERO JOBS! In fact, you have obstructed any idea of creation of even a single fucking job. NOT ONE FUCKING JOB CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO YOU OR YOUR IDJIT PARTY.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. He's the asshole who's trying to make Indiana a right to work state

[lonestarnot]

79. Yes one in the same union buster fuckwad.

[one_voice]

23. He sounds like one of those guys...

that try and sell commemorative coins on the telly. Yours for only $39.95...

[Hepburn]

86. Don't you mean...

..."3 easy payments of $39.95...but if you call RIGHT NOW, we will make that 2 easy payments..."

[ellisonz]

24. "Contrary to the President's constant disparagement of those in business"

Asshole.

[Terra Alta]

26. talking about how young people have a less brighter future than their parents

perhaps we do.. but it's because of DUMBYA and the Repukes you moron.. not Obama!

[Fuzz]

27. There hasn't been one this funny since Jindall.

[Moosepoop]

32. Crying about the XL pipline n/t

[HipChick]

33. yawn...trying to stay awake..

these guys are so boring

[Safetykitten]

34. What's the deal with that shirt and tie?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. Daniels is a human sleeping pill.

He makes Phil Graham sound exciting.

[bullwinkle428]

36. Bring back Bobby Jindal - at least he was entertaining (in his own way).

[Rosa Luxemburg]

81. Who?

[one_voice]

37. This is the guy they want...

to draft to go against Obama?!?!?

[El Supremo]

38. Valor dollars?

Who is this dumbass?

[Saving Hawaii]

39. Why isn't this titled "The STFU Thread"? /nt

[smoochpooch]

41. "Pro-poverty" WTF?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. I don't know how much I can stand this. I'm fucking falling asleep!

[Cognitive_Resonance]

46. Ha Ha, he's terrible. Doom and gloom rambling...and boring. nt

[ellisonz]

51. Emperor Palpatine-esque. n/t

[Moosepoop]

47. We Democrats are the "mortal enemies" of SS and Medicare!

[ellisonz]

48. "No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us."

[barbtries]

98. he said THAT?!

omigawd! this is...saul alinsky? karl rove? gingrich? "accuse them of the crime you are committing."
fucking bastards. i'm really glad right now that i didn't watch it because i have high blood pressure already. thankful for DU so i can get the gist, but this shit. omigawd.

[highplainsdem]

49. The commentary on Twitter is brutal, and hilarious.

Shannyn Moore @shannynmoore
Oh, yep, Mitch. State of Delusion Address. Does he know there are fact checkers. #SOD #SOTU


David Corn @DavidCornDC
Did someone tell Daniels that his right side is his better side? #SOTU



David Corn @DavidCornDC
Mitch Daniels. I'm bored already. #SOTU



Andy Borowitz @BorowitzReport
Couldn't the GOP find someone to make their official response who doesn't seem exactly like a serial killer? #SOTU

[Hepburn]

90. That last comment...

...

[Safetykitten]

50. I am waiting for him to squeeze a roll of Charmin.

[Moosepoop]

57. LOL!!! n/t

[Honeycombe8]

53. Better than Jindal.

[Safetykitten]

54. Light bulb hating bossy government.

[jberryhill]

62. Light bulbs... Always with the freaking light bulbs

[Safetykitten]

73. Such an odd fetish symbol for the republicans. Must be their toilet training issues.

[ellisonz]

55. "We'll allow ourselves to be pitted, one against the other."

Even a cave man can do it...

[vercetti2021]

56. Hmm...

Anyone think he looks like a old Ed Grimley?

[Terra Alta]

59. what, no "God bless America" at the end of his speech?

interesting...

[ellisonz]

64. Oh noes...

He forgot God!!! Now God will be angry!!!

[npk]

72. It's only God Bless America when the Republicans are in charge of the country

When it's a Democrat God does not love us anymore.

[ellisonz]

60. Rachel Maddow: "The city on the hill did not shine."

[lonestarnot]

82. I know.

That was great. Took the tingly out of Mathew's leg.

[jberryhill]

96. Because it doesn't have incandescent light bulbs!

[Old and In the Way]

63. Short and boring.

No one will remember this in 15 minutes.

[ellisonz]

69. Agreed.

It was full of fail. Delivery sucked, rhetoric sucked, speaker sucked.

GOP = Party of the Ignorant Old and Fearful.

[npk]

65. So let me get this straight

The man responsible for spending this country into it's largest deficit EVER, is giving s speech attacking the President on how he has failed to fix the economy. This is why the GOP is so fucked up. They don't even see the irony in this response. WOW just wow.

[Old and In the Way]

75. Blew me away, too. This is the best and brightest to give the rebuttal?

He had to have drawn the short straw.

He should have been introduced as George W. Bush''s budget director. What a joke.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

66. REPUBLICAN RESPONSE = MITCH DANIELS = EPIC FAIL!!!!

[onethatcares]

67. I think they took all of *s

speeches, bundled them and made this guy pick out the high notes.

at the end he got * and his daddy mixed up with that city on a hill bullshit.

[tblue37]

95. No, that was Reagan. Daddy Bush was the thousand points of light. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

68. Yet Tweety's falling all over this guy.

Nutless wonder

[Moosepoop]

69. Tweety liked his speech??

Glad Rachel vehemently disagreed and told him why Daniels' speech was idiotic.

[highplainsdem]

71. Rachel's right -- this was a "Be afraid! Be afraid! Run to Republicans!" speech

[barbtries]

99. hell yeah

it's all they've got, and it's bullshit.

[Hatchling]

74. It's like that old cartoon of a man scolding his dog.

He says: Bad dog, Ginger!
I hear: Blah, blah, Ginger!

[arely staircase]

76. wow, that guy was riveting. nt

[highplainsdem]

77. Josh Marshall: Mitch Daniels speech is kind of like the Triptofan kicking in after the TG dinner.

http://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/162016972668813312

[LongTomH]

85. Oh, God! Do we have to look forward to listening to this guy's campaign speeches in 2016?

Hermann, come baaaack!

[craigmatic]

89. The rebuttal was boring, lifeless and a waste of time.

[Hepburn]

92. Yeah, and those where the good points about it. n/t

[DCBob]

91. it seemed he didnt actually respond to the things the President said.

It seemed disconnected.

[onethatcares]

94. he thought he was at the debates

where the other assholes stood around and said things that were disconnected to reality too.

[ecstatic]

100. THIS guy is their great hope?

I hate to say this, but there's no way an elf-sounding guy spouting right wing ideas while standing at 5'4 could beat Obama. He would fizzle just like Perry did.