Daniels, who considered a run for president last year, said Obama is to blame for the divisions on Capitol Hill.
“No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others,” the governor said.
Daniels took a bleaker view of the country’s current state than did Obama.
“When President Obama claims that the state of our union is anything but grave, he must know in his heart that this is not true,” he said.
Still, Daniels seemed to acknowledge that Republicans have to put concrete policy prescriptions on the table in order to defeat Obama in November.
“An opposition that would earn its way back to leadership must offer not just criticism of failures that anyone can see, but a positive and credible plan to make life better,” he said. He noted that Republicans would push tax reform and changes to entitlements.
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