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YouTube video of the addressI haven’t found a complete transcript, yet. Here are a few highlights: ”The message has been loud and it has been clear, they (the American People) don’t like the direction this health care debate is headed in.”About the Finance Committee bill, “If you have insurance, you get taxed. If you don’t have insurance, you get taxed. If you’re an employer who can not afford to provide health insurance to your employees, you get taxed. ....”Democrat plan only includes non-binding “Sense of the Senate” about medical liability.Democrats have demonized regular citizens for asking questions about their plans,...

Rep. Myrick: “These so-called health care reform bills have different names: a public option, a co-op, a trigger. Make no mistake, these are all gateways to government-run health care.” Washington, Sep 18 - WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) today delivered the weekly Republican address on the need for fiscally responsible health care reform that makes health care more affordable and accessible for every American. Rep. Myrick, a breast cancer survivor and former small business owner, talks about her experiences and calls on Democrats in Washington to seek bipartisan solutions to our nation’s health care challenges. Audio of the...

Below is the full text (as prepared) of tonights Republican address on health care, delivered by Dr. Charles Boustany (R-LA) following President Obamas speech to a Joint Session of Congress

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Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming delivers the weekly Republican address on the loss of Senator Kennedy and the importance of getting health care reform done right. Sen. Enzi discusses how the Democrats are rushing a health reform bill through congress that will ultimately "raid Medicare", raise costs and increase the deficit. Sen. Enzi urges lawmakers to listen to what the American people are saying and scrap the Democrats' current plan in order to "enact common sense reform that will actually cut costs."

EMBARGOED UNTIL SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 AT 6AMCONTACT: Michael Steel, Kevin Smith - (202) 225-4000 Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) Delivers Weekly Republican Address Dr. Price: Americans Need Patient-Centered Reform, Not Democrats’ Costly Government Takeover of Health Care WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) today delivered the weekly Republican address on the need for real health care reform that makes coverage more affordable and accessible for middle-class families and small businesses. In the address, Price – who served Atlanta-area patients as a physician for more than two decades – fact-checks a number of myths about the Democrats’ government takeover of...

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell will deliver Saturday's weekly Republican radio address, the Republican National Committee confirmed Tuesday. The address — usually delivered by a Republican member of Congress or sitting governor — will cap off a week that has thrust the Virginia race in the national spotlight.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's weekly radio address this Saturday. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio designated McDonnell as the responder yesterday. McDonnell, a former state attorney general, said he will focus his remarks on the need for new jobs and opportunities in Virginia and the nation. The designation brings a national focus to the McDonnell campaign in the same week that Obama is coming to Virginia to stump for state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds of Bath County, the Democratic candidate for governor. The president will be the headliner at...

Published: August 5, 2009 Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's weekly radio address Saturday. break McDonnell said he will focus on the new for new jobs and more opportunities in Virginia and nationwide. break The choice of McDonnell gives him national visibility in the same week that Obama is coming to Virginia to stump for McDonnell's Democratic opponent, Creigh Deeds. Obama will appear with Deeds at a rally in McLean tomorrow evening.

CNN's Larry King talked with Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal in a prime-time exclusive interview Monday night. Jindal gave the Republican response after President Obama's address to Congress last week. Jindal received negative reviews after the speech, and Larry asked him how he felt about that. They also talked about the war of words in the Republican Party centered around Rush Limbaugh. The following transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity: Larry King: Governor, you took a lot of flak for that speech. Were you surprised that you did? Gov. Bobby Jindal: Let's be clear, the president is a great...

After watching President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress and Governor Bobby Jindal’s Republican reply, it’s clear that Americans have two very different definitions of what it means to be “responsible.” President Obama and his Democratic friends are spending like they’re playing with Monopoly money. His lofty rhetoric and reassuring phrases have no resemblance to the reality he’s creating. He challenges Americans to “take responsibility for our future once more….our job is to govern with a sense of responsibility…there’s no bailout for dishonest lenders who acted irresponsibly or for folks who bought homes they knew from the beginning...

Our friends over at Radio Equalizer caught liberal radio talker Mike Malloy in a bit of hypocrisy. Malloy obviously thought his wife was a scream as she pretended to be Governor Bobby Jindal portraying him as an outsourced computer tech from India replete with cutsey faux Indian accent. Malloy's wife acted as if Jindal was the Simpson's character Apu, or something. Now, one cannot help but realize that if a conservative had indulged in such an outrageous parody of an ethnic politician, Mike Malloy would have eviscerated that action presenting it as a high crime. Yet, when he and his...

Jindal saved the best part for the latter half of his talk. It’s as if, wandering through the mulberry bushes of his own biography, he remembered the circumstances of the party. “You elected Republicans to champion limited government, fiscal discipline, and personal responsibility. Instead, Republicans went along with earmarks and big government spending in Washington,” Jindal said. “Republicans lost your trust — and rightly so.” Had he opened his remarks with that note, the credibility of his criticisms of the stimulus bill would have been enhanced.

"Hello, my name is Bobby. How may I give you excellent customer service today? I hear you are having problems with hard drive. I am so very sorry this is happening to you, ma'am."

“Oh, God,” why did he have to use that word? According to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the GOP “outsourced” the Republican response to a young, successful Indian-American governor who “had nothing to do with Congress.” They had to outsource the response tonight, the Republican party. They had to outsource to someone who had nothing to do with Congress because the Republicans in Congress had nothing to do with the programs he was talking about tonight or the record he referred to. First of all, one might point out that Piyush “Bobby” Jindal was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives...

It is the overwhelming consensus that Bobby Jindal's delivery of the response to the President's address last night was not good. It is truly too bad that Jindal didn't shine last night, but it was not his last chance to do so. There seems to be a panicky vibe to the panning of Jindal's speech, both on the left and right today. Perhaps that's understandable. Conservatives, frustrated by years of Bush's inexpert speeches, McCain's evaporating charisma at the podium, and Palin's uncertainty under questioning, were looking for deliverance in Bobby Jindal on all fronts. They didn't get it. Liberals are...

After President Obama's speech on the economy last night, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal criticized government spending in the stimulus bill, citing examples including "$140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.'" The $140 million to which Jindal referred is actually for a number of projects conducted by the United States Geological Survey, including volcano monitoring. This monitoring is aimed at helping geologists understand the inner workings of volcanoes as well as providing warnings of impending eruptions, in the United States and in active areas around the world where U.S. military bases are located. Most of the money from the stimulus bill...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews tonight sought to explain away his "Oh God" comment last night as Gov. Bobby Jindal emerged to give his GOP Response to Barack Obama's speech. Matthews seems to be saying his comment was directed at the "staging" of the speech, not at Jindal himself. But I think Matthews was deliberately trying to diss Jindal and took a cheap shot at him even before he had spoken a single word last night. But that's the kind of class, or lack thereof, we have come to expect from his ilk. . . . . .(Watch Video)

FEBRUARY 25, 2009 Good For Rush!... Limbaugh Lashes Out at Conservative Jindal-Bashers (Video) Good For Rush! Limbaugh Lashes Out at Jindal-Bashers! "Style is not going to take this country back." Think Progress posted the video: LIMBAUGH: [T]he people on our side are really making a mistake if they go after Bobby Jindal on the basis of style. Because if you think — people on our side I’m talking to you — those of you who think Jindal was horrible, you think — in fact, I don’t ever want to hear from you ever again. … I’ve spoken to him numerous...

"[T]he people on our side are really making a mistake if they go after Bobby Jindal on the basis of style. Because if you think — people on our side I’m talking to you — those of you who think Jindal was horrible, you think — in fact, I don’t ever want to hear from you ever again. … I’ve spoken to him numerous times, he’s brilliant. He’s the real deal." --Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today. Sean Hannity was equally impressed with Gov. Jindal. With all do respect, Rush and Sean, I politiely disagree. In my unscientific analysis...