Reynolds notes that Republican governors faced the same Covid-19 virus that Democratic leaders did, but were able to honor Americans' freedom and “saw right away that lockdowns and school closures came with their own significant costs.”
Republicans “actually listened to the science, especially with kids in masks and kids in schools.”
Iowa was the first state in the country to require schools to reopen.
Reynolds calls out Democrats for repeatedly flouting their own Covid-19 restrictions:
“Elected leaders tell their citizens to stay home while they sneak off to Florida for sun and fun. Or they demand that your child wear a mask but they go maskless.”
Reynolds says “thankfully” Biden's Build Back Better agenda didn't pass because “even members of his own party said, 'Enough is enough.'”
“Well, the American people share that view. Enough is enough.”
“Democrats were warned that spending trillions would lead to soaring inflation,” Reynolds says. “They were told that their anti-energy policies would send gas prices to new heights but they plowed ahead anyway.”
She notes inflation recently reached a 40-year high.
“Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have moved us backward to the late ‘70s and early ‘80s,” Reynolds says in her rebuttal, citing runaway inflation, violent crime and the Soviet army’s attempts to “redraw the world map” during that time.
I assume that, after Biden concluded the State of the Union by telling our troops, “go get him!,” somebody will ask Jen Psaki whom exactly Biden is telling them to get.
One of the greatest things about America is that, despite the pomp and circumstance that attaches to the office, its presidents are often totally powerless. We saw that tonight.
Finally! If you’re an American president with lousy job approval rating, a 50-50 Senate that won’t pass your biggest agenda items, and you’re not a great orator, particularly late in the evening… and there’s a major brutal and bloody war going on in Europe… maybe you don’t need to deliver a State of the Union Address that is roughly an hour and ten minutes long.
What an utterly terrible speech.
Biden’s speech has ended. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds will deliver the GOP rebuttal.