Solano County Congressman pleased with Obama's speech

Posted: 01/25/2012 01:04:18 AM PST

In an attempt to meet a fractured economy head-on and make the needed adjustments to get it back on track, President Barack Obama on Tuesday emphasized in his State of the Union address the importance seeing beyond political differences and challenged Congress to take the steps necessary to bridge the gap.

Area representatives are taking a stance firmly behind him.

"President Obama gave a very strong and optimistic speech about our country, but made equally strong challenge to Congress to stop blocking efforts to rebuild the middle class and move America forward," said U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Solano, regarding the president's third address on the country's state of affairs since being elected in 2008. "I give this speech and its message to all Americans very high marks."

Moments after the completion of the speech, Miller held a telephone town hall meeting with constituents in the 7th District of California, in which callers were asked to weigh in on the president's speech -- approximately 70 percent siding with Miller in believing Obama was spot-on.

"The president has done a lot to help the economy," Miller said before adding that, "If Congress wants to stop the president from doing anything, it makes it very hard to be successful."

"This country can't afford to not come together and take advantage of all the strengths America has to offer," Miller emphasized, calling the recession "the worst economic downturn since the (Great) Depression."

Fellow Congressman John Garamendi, D-Solano, was in agreement when reached by phone following the address, calling it "excellent."

He credited Obama's emphasis on job creation and rebuilding the middle class through maintaining and strengthening infrastructure, renewable energy, pushing for fairness in tax policy and maintaining the country's military strength.

Garamendi said he was "pleasantly surprised" with the way Obama ended his address, reminding his audience of the country's greatness as a nation.

"The destiny of America is ahead of us if we can work together," he said.

Garamendi added that the changes Obama called for are within our reach as a country if partisanism can be put aside and "If Republicans can work with Democrats and vice versa."

Yes, Obama is an eloquent, powerful orator. We all grant him that.

Did I miss something?

No suprise that his own party hacks would agree with him. With the way he was talking about how bad everything is and now is the time to start fixing things, one would think that he was in his first year and not the guy who has been making things worse with every move.

Since he feels so strongly that the evil rich people should be paying at least 30% in federal income tax, then I wonder why he has only been paying about 20%.

Enyo Barbi wrote:

Yes, Obama is an eloquent, powerful orator. We all grant him that.

That he is. The only thing is that 99% of what he said were complete lies. The sad fact is that a lot of the dumbed down people do not reallize that everytime his lips are moving there is a pretty good chance that he is lying.

I didn't hear any "State of the Union" speech last night. What I did hear was a pretty good campaign stump speech.

Vote Gingrich in November!

Tea Party Patriot wrote:

I didn't hear any "State of the Union" speech last night. What I did hear was a pretty good campaign stump speech.
Vote Gingrich in November!

You and I heard the same thing. If he really wanted to give us the state of the union, he could have done that with one word, SUCKS.

So if you all dislike what you heard so much and knew in advance what the tone of the speech was going to be, why did you bother wasting your time watching and listening to it? Jesus, do you all enjoy torturing yourselves?

Get out and do something else.

Max wrote:

So if you all dislike what you heard so much and knew in advance what the tone of the speech was going to be, why did you bother wasting your time watching and listening to it? Jesus, do you all enjoy torturing yourselves?
Get out and do something else.

He will (probably) better understand once he grows up to become an adult.

I didn't bother to watch it. I've seen all the lies I need to see from Obama. He's a crappy president and his agenda stinks.

4 years ago McCain and the repubs said the fundamentals of the economy were strong. They were wrong then and they are wrong today.
If the economy improves what the heck are the repubs going to run on?
Invading Iran........Cut taxes on the rich
Can anyone say brokered convention!

GDP wrote:

4 years ago McCain and the repubs said the fundamentals of the economy were strong. They were wrong then and they are wrong today.
If the economy improves what the heck are the repubs going to run on?
Invading Iran........Cut taxes on the rich
Can anyone say brokered convention!

Brokered convention my butt! Next year at about this time, the U.S. Supreme Court will do their duty and declare Newton Gingrich President of the United States regardless of who has the highest popular vote count. I'm counting on Dade County, Florida to, once again, screw up the vote count as they did in 2000.

Newt will lose and go back to Fox News. Collecting $100,000 speaking fees and writing books. He'll be just fine.
It's been great watching these clowns beat each other up. Thanks
Did you know newt married his high school sweetheart? His math teacher......very strange
The rest is history

GDP wrote:

Newt will lose and go back to Fox News. Collecting $100,000 speaking fees and writing books. He'll be just fine.
It's been great watching these clowns beat each other up. Thanks
Did you know newt married his high school sweetheart? His math teacher......very strange
The rest is history

No! Newton Gingrich is an extremely moral person and is the world's greatest historian and will be a great U.S. President.

Don't believe any of the false and evil rumors circulating from the main stream media. They are all lies generated by the Communist Party USA which controls all the print and broadcast mainstream media with the exception of the Fox News Network - God's network.

VOTE GINGRICH IN 2012!

GDP wrote:

4 years ago McCain and the repubs said the fundamentals of the economy were strong. They were wrong then and they are wrong today.
If the economy improves what the heck are the repubs going to run on?
Invading Iran........Cut taxes on the rich
Can anyone say brokered convention!

The fundamentals of the economy WERE strong, until Obozo and company got in a screwed everything up.

Birds Landing Bob wrote:

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That he is. The only thing is that 99% of what he said were complete lies. The sad fact is that a lot of the dumbed down people do not reallize that everytime his lips are moving there is a pretty good chance that he is lying.

The millineals are watching and will vote for him, like they did last time. That generation wants everything right now. Only a few are asking "uh, what happened?"

Birds Landing Bob wrote:

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The fundamentals of the economy WERE strong, until Obozo and company got in a screwed everything up.

The Bush tax cuts, 2 wars and the prescription D program were off the books. President Obama put those on the books. Now we know Bush and the repubs spent like drunken sailors. The economy was not strong in 2008 that's why Obama won!
Be honest if you can

GDP wrote:

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The Bush tax cuts, 2 wars and the prescription D program were off the books. President Obama put those on the books. Now we know Bush and the repubs spent like drunken sailors. The economy was not strong in 2008 that's why Obama won!
Be honest if you can

You're almoet too clueless to respond to, but I'll give it a shot. The government cannot spend money "off the books". It may not be in the budget, but it is still counted. Speaking of budgets, congress is responsible for submitting a budget to the president which it has not done for over three years now and all spending originates in congress. Do you know who has been in charge of congress since Jan. 2006? Rhetorical question, I'm sure your union leaders forget to include that when they feed you your talking points.

1. Right now there are no "books." We have no budget to keep track of on the "books."

2. Yes, money for super secret projects is spent off the "books." It does happen.

Max wrote:

1. Right now there are no "books." We have no budget to keep track of on the "books."
2. Yes, money for super secret projects is spent off the "books." It does happen.

You can bet that we won't get a budget this year either, not before the election.

GDP is waiting for a transmission to his tinfoil hat before he can respond.