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A year into his presidency, Barack Obama has little to tout in his State Of The Union Address tonight. His stimulus was a failure, his agenda has been rejected by the American people, and his polarizing style has made the culture in Washington worse.  He made a lot of big promises, and RNC Chairman Michael Steele has an op-ed in Politico this morning about how he owes us an explanation about whether he still stands by them.

Taxpayers deserve to know why the president’s $787 billion stimulus package failed to keep unemployment below 8 percent. We deserve to know why his government takeover of health care stalled somewhere between the House and the Senate, if according to President Obama, the American people support it. And most of all, our country deserves to know why President Obama has wasted a year without working to find real solutions to create jobs and put Americans back to work. Tonight our nation deserves a genuine explanation, and we need to know how the president is planning to fix this mess his policies have made worse.

See this accompanying RNC Research Briefing “Explanation To The Nation” for a detailed look at what Obama needs to answer for. And don’t forget to join the RNC Research Department’s live blog of President Obama’s State of the Union, starting at 8:30 Eastern time on www.GOP.com/LiveResponse.