{"id":652357,"date":"2010-02-02T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/mcconnell-obama-federal-government-trying-to-do-too-much\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:01:47","slug":"mcconnell-obama-federal-government-trying-to-do-too%c2%a0much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652357","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Obama, Federal Government Trying To Do Too\u00a0Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Barack%2BObama_1961_19588320_0_0_7045621_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"McConnell: Obama, federal government trying to do too much\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">The Republican Party response to President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address, given by Virginia Governor Bob McConnell last week criticized the current administration&#8217;s policies regarding the economy, healthcare reform and unemployment. <\/p>\n<p>McConnell, a rising star in the GOP, applauded Obama on his government spending freeze proposal, but condemned the president&#8217;s response to the rising deficit and high unemployment rate. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Good government policy should spur economic growth, and strengthen the private sector&#8217;s ability to create new jobs,&quot; said the Virginia Governor. &quot;What government should not do is pile on more taxation, regulation and litigation that kill jobs and hurt the middle class.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell also said that Americans want an affordable, high-quality healthcare system, but &quot;do not want to turn over the best medical care system in the world to the federal government.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In his address, in front of a crowd of supporters in Richmond, Va., McConnell agreed with several of the president&#8217;s initiatives, including education reform and the decision to deploy more than 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. The governor&#8217;s oldest daughter was an Army platoon leader in Iraq, according to <i>Fox News<\/i>. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19588320-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party response to President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address, given by Virginia Governor Bob McConnell last week criticized the current administration&#8217;s policies regarding the economy, healthcare reform and unemployment. McConnell, a rising star in the GOP, applauded Obama on his government spending freeze proposal, but condemned the president&#8217;s response to the rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JHT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}