“In three short years, an unprecedented explosion of spending, with borrowed money, has added trillions to an already unaffordable national debt. And yet, the president has put us on a course to make it radically worse in the years ahead. . . No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.”

— Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Tuesday, in the official Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address