Bi-Partisan tensions smoulder as Republicans release official rebuttal to Monday's SOTU address

ACC-SPAN Washington:On the steps of Austin Community College,(still, both the Executive and Legislative branches are being tight-lipped about the important role such an obscure and modest learning institution has been playing in the political happenings of late. We can only speculate.) Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell delivered rousing opposition to the Obama administration's plans for the coming year. The Republican leadership has a tough road ahead, as polls show favorable public opinion remains for the President and the Congressional majority, even following the passionate and eloquent speech given by Mr.McConnel:

"In my state of Kentucky, as well as in the rest of the U.S., we’re suffering from severe job shortages. In times like these the government should encourage job creation. Some of the legislation we have seen proposed recently not only inhibits jobs, but in some instances destroys jobs altogether. The Democrat’s have introduced 34% more bills than Republicans that impose more limitations than anything else. We should be working to help hard working Americans, not enacting laws that make things harder on them. I think my fellow Republicans and I can agree that exploring green, alternative energy is beneficial to America in the long run, but we can also agree that using our natural resources that we have here is imperative to loosening our dependence on foreign oil. If we have to wait for green energy to encompass the whole of the U.S. then we could be waiting for well over a decade for that goal to be realized. My opinion is why wait to be energy independent when we can mine for more coal and drill for oil off of our coast right now. Another issue that is of concern in America right now is health care. We all want every American to have health care coverage, but an approach should be taken that will not entrench America in more debt; debt that will be detrimental to our children. Our future generations will be indebted due to actions that we are taking right now, and that is an undue burden that the recent health care legislation is contributing to. The American people have spoken and what they want is to have the government stay out of their business. It’s not the federal government’s duty to sweep down and make individuals be responsible and healthy as per how they see fit. Americans don’t want to be told, and they especially don’t want to be mandated, on how to conduct their private affairs. This administration has encouraged the partisan bill passing machine that is taking place in today’s congress. We need to work towards bipartisan efforts to come to a consensus on all major legislation that will affect the entire country. More importantly, we need to revisit the principle of small government that this country was founded on."

Apologies for the poor audio.