Caustic Speech News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It was out in force today. senator minority leader mitch mcconnell said the speech was full of recycled liberal talking points. let's listen to the senator. >> an opportunity to bring together the country instead became another retread of lip service and liberalism. for a democratic president entering his second term, it was simply unequal to the moment. following four years of this president's unwillingness to challenge liberal dogma, we got more of the same. >> well, speaker john boehner dismissed the president's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9 on hour. let's listen to the speaker. ...

Back to "hardball." now to the sideshow. did you see texas democrat jackson greeting president obama when he entered the chamber? it's not the first time she's staked out an aisle position. and she's got company. some members of congress are known to arrive up to 12 hours before the speech to get one of those seats. where they can be seen on camera with the president. and you've got to wait in person, by the way. the rule is no leaving a book or coat on that seat to claim your seat for the event later. sheila jackson says it's all for her constituents. quote, they are seeing me work on their b...

Move forward as a nation. >> politico called last night an aggressive speech. quote were for all the talk about bipartisan cooperation, obama couldn't have been clearer. he's confident his agenda will have popular support. now going around the country pressing his case. he was in north carolina today where he pushed his manufacturing policies and he made sure to call out congress on that point. let's watch him in asheville today. >> i'm doing what i can just through administrative action. but i need congress to help. i need congress to do their part. i need congress to do their part. i need co...

>> let's have a $9 minimum wage, real comprehensive immigration reform. basically he was moving the ball maybe one foot to the left of the midfield. >> it was either a home run or go home. >> what's the left wing part? was there a left wing piece to this speech last night? i didn't see it. >> if you believe the ideology is divided between government getting more involved in your lives and government getting less, then of course the party that believes that government needs to be less involved is going to think well government mandating a minimum wage and doing these things with the universal p...

The short time i've been here in washington, nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. >> well, welcome back to "hardball." by any measure marco rubio's water gate moment was an awkward one for him and many who see him as the gop's savior. a greater consequence may be something more awkward. the effort to reposition itself as a kinder, gentler republican party. let's start with the content of rubio's speech. it was more or less a throwback last night. i called it a yafer speech from the old days. the youth speech which we heard back in the 1...