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The curse of the pre-sponse

BY Dave Ross  on February 13, 2013 @ 6:08 am (Updated: 6:21 am - 2/13/13 )

There is a danger in having to write a response to the State of the Union address before you've heard the speech you're responding to.

Senator Marco Rubio discovered that last night.

His speech was not really a RE-sponse. It's a PRE-sponse. You could tell, because he said stuff like, "Instead of playing politics with Medicare, when is the president going to offer his detailed plan to save it? Tonight would have been a good time to do it."

But wait - the President just finished agreeing with you!

"On Medicare, I'm prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of healthcare savings by the beginning of the next decade, as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Simpson Bowles commision," Obama said during the State of the Union.

The Simpson Bowles report is the budget deal considered the holy grail by many Republicans including Lindsey Graham.

And then Obama said, "We'll bring down costs by changing the way our government pays for medicare because our medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital. It should be based on the quality of care our seniors receive."

For a guy who has no plan, that sounds like a pretty serious plan.

So - may I offer a suggestion?

If you have to write your response before the speech you're responding to, you should also be allowed to deliver it before the speech you're responding to. Like during those tedious 15 minutes when everybody is meandering around - and the anchors are yammering about Michelle's arms - I would much rather have watched Senator Rubio's pre-sponse.

Then, when it turned out the President actually agreed with many of his points, the Senator could have said see? I changed his mind.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
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  • don over taxed wrote...
    Response
    February 13, 2013 9:52 am
    Dave....do you believe anything oblamo says.....he had the same message 4 years ago.
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Funniest part is
    February 13, 2013 11:15 am
    This guy is the best they've got.
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Will, Marco Rubio, the GOP guy that's so knew that he is still likable.
    February 13, 2013 4:07 pm
    Not a single other republican worthy enough?
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Knew new, lolz
    February 13, 2013 4:07 pm
    sheesh!
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Be quiet, don over taxed,
    February 13, 2013 4:05 pm
    are you a cheerleader or just a puppet?
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Maybe he's suggesting we go for a do-over, and this time only the folks that *he* personally considers "real Americans" would get to vote?
    February 13, 2013 11:40 am
    No Chuck. Not a bit confusing. Yes! I would love a "Do over" as you say. I would bet that your Dear Leader as I call Obama most likely would lose. He was not doing this before re immaculation.

    Not confusing at all Chuck as you can plainly see by the actions or inaction of this regime and the Americans who voted for real hope and change.

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Based on YOUR track record, Fireman
    February 13, 2013 12:03 pm
    He'd win in a landslide.

    Read it and weep, fireman http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history

    56% approval.

    Funny

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    ch
    February 13, 2013 11:42 am
    get off of the couch and out of momies basement and ask the first paid firefighter of just how many jobs Obama has saved? How much money we firefighters have lost due to this ObamaEconomy. Or how much more we pay for retirement or how much more we will pay for ObamaCare?
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    This guy is the best they've got.
    February 13, 2013 11:45 am
    This guy believes in America and we Americans. What does your Dear Leader believe in?
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  • Roark wrote...
    So what?
    February 13, 2013 11:45 am
    Dave, Obama has spent the last 4 years, and just said this week, that he wouldn't allow any cuts to Medicare or Social Security or allow increasing the eligibility age. Is the GOP supposed to read his mind? They wrote the response based on Obama's known positions. If he suddenly and inexplicably decides to change and agree with the GOP, GREAT! What about the last 4 years and every other speech he's ever given on the subject? Americans have lost the ability to judge people on what they've done, not on what they say they're going to do. Obama's a great one for saying a lot of things he never intends to do. And thanks to the lamestream media and apologists like YOU, the gets away with it every time.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    sustain your corps for 30 days...
    February 13, 2013 12:31 pm
    Is that "corpse" like a dead body or "corps" like the idiot, imbcile Owebama read from his telepromtor?
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    The true problem with the "pre-sponse..."
    February 13, 2013 12:32 pm
    Has very, very little to do with anything in the political world, or at least the political ramifications of what was said. No, the problem here is that once again, one party has to come out swinging at the other while completely ignoring the greater good of the crubling society to which it's supposed to serve. Our bi-partisan politcal system is indeed its own inherient flaw. Red versus Blue rather than a government by the people and for the people. Frankly, as much as anyone would like to blame any individual in the governement, its their constituants that are ruining the USA. This pre-sponse was designed to placate a party hellbent on nothing more than petty bickering and other playground antics. The fact that it was written ahead of the speech proves that the sentiment behind the statement was far less about the speach than bashing the president, as seems to be the entire Republican agenda. Granted, both parties are equally to blame for the extreme divide between the two... But if MyNW's comment sections prove nothing, it's that the right is far more intent on destroying the integrity of the opposing party even at the sake of destroying it's own. Many of you, using incindiary terminology such as "Dear Leader" or "Parrots" simply prove the point I'm making with every single post. It's not the politicians as much as the constituatnts that are the problem here. YOU people, with your inability to leave your point fingers and call names tact on the playground where it belongs are the very thing dragging our country down. The more you chastise, the more you aimlessly repeat the same few insults endlessly... Is the further away we get from saving this country from the tailspin it's in. Next time you feel the need to spew bile on your keyboard to "point out the flaws," remind yourself that destructive rhetoric is merely that; destructive. If your efforts really are to make anything better for yourself, and generations to come... Grow up, put on your big boy pants, and make a positive change. Bashing someone for something they haven't even said yet? That belongs in elementary school, not the White House.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    Boehner and Obama...
    February 13, 2013 3:58 pm
    ...had a grand budget compromise worked out in 2011, but Obama let his ego get in the way and killed it with a childish tantrum.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bob-woodward-book-debt-deal-collapse-led-pure/story?id=17104635

    Maybe you can write to El Presidente and tell him to "grown up" and put his big boy pants on.

    And while you're at it, contact Harry Reid and let him know you want the Senate to pass a (bleeping) budget.

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  • CH wrote...
    Grow up, put on your big boy pants, and make a positive change.
    February 13, 2013 2:13 pm
    good advice for the Republicans.
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  • CH wrote...
    It's me! Ha ha! did you miss the question?
    February 13, 2013 2:18 pm
    what do you do at the fire station? watch fox news? Republicans are trying to cut your federal job not King Obama.
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