via The Right Scoop
Pence: Let’s be honest, let’s be honest. Three years ago Republicans in Congress didn’t just lose their majority, they lost their way.
When I opposed No Child Left Behind, when I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, when I opposed the Wall Street bailout, I knew if we kept acting like big government liberals the American people are eventually going to go with the professionals.
And that’s just what they did.
Truth is our party walked away from the principals that minted our national governing majority and the American people walked away from us.
But after a year that saw every single House Republican vote against that failed stimulus bill, every single House Republican vote against that budget busting budget, and every single House Republican vote against that government takeover of health care let me tell you here in the South, Republicans are back in the fight and they’re back in the fight on the right.
Especially where it comes to ObamaCare
I know Democrats think that’s over.
They passed their bill and its time to move on.
Well, let me clear about one thing.
Democrats may have had their way on the third Sunday in March but the American people are gonna have their say on the first Tuesday in November
Despite the political gains of the last year, America is changing, and she is not changing for the better.
A nation conceived in liberty has come of age in bondage to big government.
We’ve lost respect in the world.
We’re going broke.
And our social and culture fabric is unraveling.
You know I’m told that officials in this Administration will actually admit in private that they see their job as “managing American decline.” Well let me say this from my heart. As a student of history of this great land, the job of the American President is not to manage American decline the job of the American President is to reverse it.
You know the recent controversy over Israel’s construction of apartment in Jerusalem was appalling. I never thought I would live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the Jewish state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
Let the world know this, if knows nothing else.
America stands with Israel!
…and while we must end this era of runaway spending, fiscal discipline alone will not be enough. We also need to renew incentives in America. The incentive to create, to build, to achieve, to excel. Permitting people to enjoy the fruits of their labor, built our cities, conquered our frontiers, and is what made America the most powerful economy in the history of the world. We must renew incentive in our American policy.
But you know thats not the President’s approach.
I was with him in Baltimore on a stage just like this at the Republican retreat.
I had to ask him twice whether he would support across the board tax cuts. The way John F. Kennedy did. The way Ronald Reagan did.
As near as I can tell the President pretty much said he would support across the board tax cuts, as long as they weren’t across the board.
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