WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner yesterday panned President Obama’s 2012 agenda — which will be rolled out in tomorrow’s State of the Union Address — as “pathetic.”
Boehner (R-Ohio) said he already “read a lot about what the president is going to talk about Tuesday night, and it sounds to me like the same old policies we’ve been seeing: more spending, higher taxes, more regulations — the same policies that haven’t helped our economy. They’ve made it worse.
“If that’s what the president is going to talk about Tuesday night, I think it’s pathetic,” Boehner blasted on “Fox News Sunday.”
“It’s time to go in a new direction. We need to end the regulatory nightmare that’s coming out of Washington and serving as a wet blanket over our economy.”
In a preview of the speech, Obama said in an online message Saturday that he will lay out an economic blueprint that’s “built to last” for middle-class Americans.
The prime-time speech — in which Obama will begin making the argument for a second term — will focus on four themes: manufacturing, energy, education and what Obama calls “a return to American values.”