President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address Tuesday was "one hell of a speech" — but "don't come back crying to us about partisanship," political analyst Dick Morris told
Newsmax TV.
"He said too there was too partisanship," Morris told host Ed Berliner in a Newsmax analysis of the president's speech. "You’re the guy who reformed the laws in the Senate that laws pass with 60 votes — and you jammed through Obamacare on Christmas Eve with a solid, straight-line partisan vote."
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Morris said Obama's speech harkened back to "a style that he had hoped to bring to Washington and did not.
"This is the first time I've seen him, as president, be the same character that he was when he ran as president: someone who rises above political divisions and has an honest conversation with us," he said.
But Morris slammed Obama's speech on several points, including:
- "He talked about the great job growth. The fact is the matter is that the hours Americans are working are precisely the same as when he took office. All those new jobs are simply dividing one job into two others."
- "He said he cut the deficit. The only reason he did that was the sequester that Republicans jammed through over his dead body."
- "He said that we should recruit great teachers. Well, not if the union gets them fired under a last-in, first-fired rule that they have had in his presidency."
- "He said that we need two years of free community college. We have two free years of community college. [President] Bill Clinton passed it. The only reason why it’s not free is that the state legislatures have cut back their funding so much that now they have to impose tuition. Talk to your fellow Democrats in the state legislatures."
- "He talked about 10 million people covered by health insurance. That should be 5 million. The rest are on welfare, Medicaid — the same old program, just expanding the dole."
- "He said immigrants aren't the reason wages don't rise. Baloney. Foreign-born Americans have had their wages rise significantly more — like four times faster that native-born Americans have."
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