GOP ’12 Reax to Obama Speech

In web video, Romney says Obama's plan is 960 days late.

Perry: “Like the president’s earlier $800 billion stimulus program, this proposal offers little hope for millions of Americans who have lost jobs on his watch, and taxpayers who are rightly concerned that their children will inherit a mountain of debt."

Huntsman: "Tonight's list of regurgitated half-measures demonstrates that President Obama fundamentally doesn't understand how to turn our economy around."

Bachmann: "[Obama] called 535 members back to hear what I believe was nothing more than a political speech."

Santorum: "The President's speech tonight was more of the same failed policies and empty rhetoric that got him elected and got us in this mess."

Cain tweets President should've asked him how to create jobs.

Statement by Texas Gov. Rick Perry on President Obama’s Speech
Posted on September 8th, 2011
Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress:

“President Obama’s call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

“Like the president’s earlier $800 billion stimulus program, this proposal offers little hope for millions of Americans who have lost jobs on his watch, and taxpayers who are rightly concerned that their children will inherit a mountain of debt.

“America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.”

JON HUNTSMAN STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S JOBS SPEECH
Orlando, FL - Governor Jon Huntsman issued the following statement regarding President Obama's speech to Congress on jobs:

"The American people are tired of President Obama’s empty rhetoric and failed policies; they're desperately searching for leadership and, above all, results. Tonight's list of regurgitated half-measures demonstrates that President Obama fundamentally doesn't understand how to turn our economy around.

"Last week, I detailed specific and comprehensive solutions to create jobs and revive our flailing economy – a plan immediately endorsed by the Wall Street Journal and described as 'the most pro-growth proposal ever offered by a US presidential candidate.'

"Rather than tinker with a broken and outdated tax system, I propose bold reform which eliminates loopholes, special interest carve-outs and subsidies, while lowering rates across the board to make our tax code flatter, fairer, simpler and more conducive to growth. My plan also eliminates burdensome regulations like Obamacare, promotes energy independence, and opens more global markets for American products by expanding free trade.

"In stark contrast to my fellow candidates, my economic plan is built upon a proven record of success. It draws heavily from my experience as governor of Utah, where we enacted similar reforms which made our state number one in job-creation and our economy grow at triple the national rate.

"President Obama has failed. It's time for America to compete again. We did it in Utah and we can do it for America."

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Senator Santorum: "Many say the President is a failure, but I disagree - he'd have to improve a whole lot to even be considered a failure."
September 8, 2011
For Immediate Release

Verona, PA - Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) made the following statement in response to President Obama's jobs speech before a joint session of Congress this evening.

Senator Santorum said, "Many say the President is a failure, but I disagree - he'd have to improve a whole lot to even be considered a failure. The President's speech tonight was more of the same failed policies and empty rhetoric that got him elected and got us in this mess. Sadly, the President seems to have forgotten his own charge that our country should come before party or his own even re-election. Instead President Obama kicked off his campaign for reelection in the most disingenuous way possible - by using the Congress as a his political toy. His failed plan to spend over $400 billion more that we do not have, create further tax instability for workers and employers alike, and use federal tax dollars to prop up government is only made worse by the political theater we saw tonight. Regardless of what he says, the President is guilty of political malfeasance that was no clearer seen than by his campaign's email fundraising appeal sent shortly before his address this evening."

President Obama and the national Democrats used tonight's address to raise money through an email solicitation just over an hour before the President entered the House Chamber. In his email to supporters, President Obama says that he is "about to head to the Capitol to ask Congress to ask on [his] plan to put Americans back to work" and that it is up to his supporters to "pressure Congress to act - or hold them accountable if they do not." This was not a policy speech to the nation, but a political speech using the Chamber of the House of Representatives as the backdrop.