By Donlyn Turnbull

President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address calling for an upcoming “year of action.” However, Sen. Mike Lee (R) of Utah, who offered the official Tea Party response, spoke of the President’s inability to find real solutions, stating the President is offering more empty words to very real issues.
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By Donlyn Turnbull

Tea Party Express enthusiastically announced Tuesday that Senator Mike Lee of Utah will be offering the 4th Annual Tea Party response to the President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address, immediately following the Republican response.
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Today is the one year anniversary of Ted Cruz’s historic Texas-sized Tea Party victory. Grassroots conservatives from across the country came together to take a stand with Ted against the Washington, D.C. establishment. Now, a year later, we are preparing to do it again in 2014 Midterm Elections.
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CALL TO ACTION: Iowa needs our help

As you are probably aware, Democrat Senator Tom Harkin has decided to retire, leaving his Iowa Senate seat up for grabs.  This gives us an excellent opportunity to win this Senate seat, and that is exactly what we have to do if we are going to take power away from Senate Leader Harry Reid.
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Senator Mike Lee used the occasion of a private Senate Tea Party Caucus meeting to outline his plan to defund Obamacare during the upcoming Continuing Resolution battle to keep the government operating. Tea Party Express participated in the first-ever Senate Tea Party Caucus, organized by the TheTeaParty.Net. We were joined by several other conservative groups, including Americans for Tax Reform, 60 Plus Association, Republican Jewish Coalition and National Tax Payers Union.
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We hardly ever expect the federal government to spend our money efficiently, but this is beyond pathetic. Today, America’s unemployment ticked up a point to 7.9% – hovering just below the 8.0% complete failure mark. When President Obama chose to spend $1.2 TRILLION DOLLARS of your money, he promised that the unemployment rate would be at 5.2% by now. Instead, the unemployment rate is currently 51.9% HIGHER than he said it would be, and Americans across the nation are suffering.
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President Obama threw down the big-government, progressive gauntlet in yesterday’s inaugural address. This President is trying to redefine America with a collectivist narrative that empowers the government and vilifies success, ingenuity, and free enterprise.
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