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Related: About this forumObama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts
In what some critics are calling the most radial tactic ever employed in a State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama risked alienating congressional Republicans last night by repeatedly using facts.
Mr. Obama stirred controversy throughout the speech with his relentless references to facts, data, and things that have actually happened, all long considered the third rail of American politics.
As the President made reference to tax rates and unemployment numbers, as well as sixteen separate mentions of Osama bin Laden, congressional Republicans blood began to boil.
After the speech, a furious Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, Its been a longstanding tradition in our politics not to use facts in a State of the Union Address, a tradition the President chose to ignore in an outrageous way tonight. I wont stand for it and the American people wont stand for it.
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/01/25/obama-risks-alienating-republicans-by-using-facts/
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(60,300 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Because the truth feels like hell to modern Republicans.
The supposed McConnell and Boehner quotes are hilarious. I could actually picture those two douche bags saying that.
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(106,886 posts)- Speaker Boehner