{"id":519,"date":"2011-01-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-06-14T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:34:56","slug":"state-of-the-union-tweets-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"State Of The Union Tweets 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obviously Michele Bachmann wasn&#8217;t there when the Republicans read the Constitution at the beginning of the year. #TCOT #TeaParty <span style=\"color: #888888;\">8:40 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Wow, what a leader. That&#8217;ll kick off my #SOTU and absence from tweeting. <span style=\"color: #888888;\">8:42 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>No one&#8217;s talking about Joe Wilson? Will he be gagged?\u00c2\u00a0#HeresHoping <span style=\"color: #888888;\">8:50 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s the entire #SOTU, Obama shaking everyone&#8217;s hands. <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:09 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State Of The Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Maher said it best. The common ground seems to always be where the Republican is standing. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:15 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>New jobs will come from China&#8230; and be there too. Where are those cars and computers made? China. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:24 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>So we&#8217;re supposed to stroke research and development by not spending? Got it. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:25 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>But when parents have to work 12 hour days just to make ends meet, it&#8217;s kinda hard to teach those good principles. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:31 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Wasn&#8217;t there a hiring freeze for teachers in most states? #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:34 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Yes there are many illegal immigrants in our schools, but the DREAM act killed their chances of being citizens. #ThanksRepublicans #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:37 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>These other countries actually invest in their infrastructures. We should take a lesson from them. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:39 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Obama hasn&#8217;t even mentioned NAFTA or lack of terrifs which hurt jobs in this country. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:45 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Debt began a decade ago? Try three decades ago with the Republican hero, Reagan. #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">9:48 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We knew he&#8217;d say it. &#8220;The state of our Union is strong.&#8221; When is it not strong? Why is it always sugar coated? #SOTU <span style=\"color: #888888;\">10:14 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Republican Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You didn&#8217;t cut spending a few years ago. Huge debts are due to Republican spending. <span style=\"color: #888888;\">10:28 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>And even more people would lose their coverage if #HCR wasn&#8217;t passed. And the health insurance mandate? A Republican idea. <span style=\"color: #888888;\">10:29 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<li>You thought endless borrowing was alright under Bush. <span style=\"color: #888888;\">10:33 PM EST<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tea Party Response<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barely worth mentioning, but I&#8217;ll make a few points that I didn&#8217;t on twitter since the Tea Party Express website was slow:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So the economic collapse had nothing to do with failed Bush policies or lack of government regulation which helped to ship jobs overseas?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The stimulus saved jobs that would have been lost. That&#8217;s a fact. And the stimulus would have done a lot more if 1\/3 of it wasn&#8217;t tax breaks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Did I miss something? I don&#8217;t hear anyone telling me what light bulbs to buy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nothing\u00c2\u00a0was stopping businesses from dropping health insurance before, so why didn&#8217;t they? It would have been a lot cheaper.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I remember gas being a lot more expensive under that oil man Bush.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ll pay $100 million in government regulations if I can drink clean water, eat clean food, and buy safe products. Thanks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We can start making things again when we reinforce tariffs and stop giving tax breaks to companies who ship jobs overseas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Obviously Michele Bachmann wasn&#8217;t there when the Republicans read the Constitution at the beginning of the year. #TCOT #TeaParty 8:40 PM EST Wow, what a leader. That&#8217;ll kick off my #SOTU and absence from tweeting. 8:42 PM EST No one&#8217;s talking about Joe Wilson? Will he be gagged?\u00c2\u00a0#HeresHoping 8:50 PM EST That&#8217;s the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-tweets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}