Republican governors took to the airwaves over the weekend to?take jabs at the president?s and Washington?s efforts to create jobs and boost the economy.
In the weekly Republican address, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin again denounced the president for blocking a pipeline that would transport oil to the United States from Canada. ?Millions of Americans remain out of work, but President Obama continues to propose job-killing tax hikes and obstruct the basic energy infrastructure projects that would lead to the creation of thousands of new jobs, not to mention more revenue in state budgets,? she said.
As Stateline has reported, the TransCanada Corporation?s $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline expansion, designed to transport Canadian oil to Texas, has not been without controversy. President Obama earlier this year rejected a quick approval of the pipeline, saying a deadline that Congress imposed wouldn?t allow enough time review the impact the project would have on the environmental.?
?Let?s be clear," Fallin said. "The energy crisis we are facing today isn't a lack of energy resources; it's a lack of leadership. That starts at the top, with our president."
Meanwhile on NBC?s Meet the Press on Sunday (April 8), Ohio Governor John Kasich lamented about the uncertainty he sees from Washington. ?Are they gonna raise taxes? How many more regulations are gonna be piled on?? he asked. ?Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.?
Kasich, a former U.S. congressman, also urged Washington to reform entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security or risk seeing the same upheaval seen in parts of Europe. ?We don't want to be Greece. We don't want to be places where people are rioting because we waited so long to get things fixed,? the Republican governor said.
The comments came after disappointing economic news on Friday that showed employers added only 120,000 jobs in March, half the number of February, and the unemployment rate fell, but only slightly, to 8.2 percent from 8.3 percent. The jobs growth was less than the most pessimistic estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of economists, Bloomberg reported.
?Today?s Take? provides a quick analysis of the day?s top news in state government.
? Contact Pamela M. Prah at pprah@stateline.org
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