Daniels’ response was the first to be delivered from a building surrounded by dozens of police cars and chanting activists, protesting his latest anti-union move.
There was a media squabble that Republican luminaries were competing to go after Obama's speech, but the message was the same, and the Tea Party barons are smiling.
Obama is failing with a capital "F" for tripling the number of troops in Afghanistan and waffling on cutting the military budget despite the economic crisis.
