GOP SOTU Rebuttal: Four Speakers, Three Platforms, Two Languages, One Party
Source: US News & World Report
Since around 1960, it’s been a modern tradition for State of the Union speeches: the president tells Congress what he thinks of the country and how he wants to improve it, then the political party out of power -- Republicans, lately -- does an equal-time rebuttal.
But in an era in which you can design your own sneakers and choose from 30 different brands of cereal at the supermarket, Republicans in the Obama Era apparently decided that we needed more options in our SOTU responses, starting around, say, 2009.
On Monday evening, after President Barack Obama lays out his vision for the next two years, the GOP will again triple down on its opposition to Obama’s proposals, offering political consumers four speech responses in two languages and on three different media platforms to choose from. They stretch from the party’s conservative wing to its Rand Paul wing, which tends to flap on its own.
Sen. Joni Ernst, a really, really conservative freshman from Iowa, will deliver the party’s official rebuttal to the SOTU speech. Then there’s the tea party response, delivered by Rep. Curt Clawson of Florida; his state colleague, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, will deliver the GOP response in Spanish. Finally, there’s Paul: the Kentucky senator and presidential hopeful, who announced he’ll rebut Obama’s speech, again, on his YouTube channel.
Read more: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2015/01/20/gop-sotu-rebuttal-four-speakers-three-platforms-two-languages-one-party
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This is Kshama Sawant:
And what she has to say is significant because she and her supporters in Seattle are largely responsible for getting the $15/hour minimum wage movement off of the ground on a regional and then national scale.
and Marco "Gulp" Rubio...I'm ready...
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Maybe she needs this.
