7:28 PM PT: The official GOP response has yet to begin. The unofficial GOP response was to sit on their hands for just about every single good idea pushed by President Obama during his State of the Union speech.
7:32 PM PT: And here is Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. "A girl who worked at the McDonald's drive thru to help pay her way through college," she describes herself.
7:34 PM PT: Of course, the minimum wage was worth 25% more in real terms when Rep. McMorris Rogers was born, which probably helped her just a little bit in paying for college.
7:35 PM PT: McMorris Rodgers message seems basically to be: If you work hard and save your money, you can go to college, and get elected to Congress, just like me.
7:38 PM PT: Wow, this a bunch of hot air fluffy nonsense. Seriously. I have yet to heard a single policy idea here, except, reading through the lines, the notion that abortion should be illegal.
7:39 PM PT: Here we go: First policy idea—repeal Obamacare.