Snyder and Obama: Two Leaders in a Pod

myFOXdetroit.com - Did anybody catch the similarities between the president’s State of the Union address and the State of the State message from Gov. Rick Snyder.

There were a boatload…nine if not more and remember they are not in the same party.

They are hardly soul-brothers but they are surprisingly on the same page on many issues.

Starting with the auto industry bounce back, President Obama joyously announced that “The American auto industry is back and General Motors is number one.”

Not all of the Republicans in the Congress got on their feet but when GOP Gov. Snyder said basically the same thing two weeks ago, the whole joint at the capitol, R’s and D’s, went bonkers.

The president talked about getting rid of lousy teachers. Governor Snyder? Been there, done that.

The president talked about keeping college tuition costs down. Governor Snyder’s on that, too.

Charter schools? Same page.

The president waxed on about how to spend the federal extra cash, now that the country is not spending it in the Middle East, and Gov. Snyder has a surplus question to answer as well.

And on and on it went as the two leaders paralleled each other all over the place.

Which brings us to the “relationship” they have. Far as we can tell, the governor has not broken bread with Mr. Obama, but the guys in the White House have noticed that Mr. Snyder is not a fire-brand, off the wall, anti-labor governor like the gov’s in Ohio and Wisconsin.

In fact this GOP governor has been down right friendly with the president’s transportation director who has funneled some federal goodies into the state as result.

And when the GOP candidates for president where bashing the president for helping the auto industry, there was GOP Gov. Snyder on the side lines refusing to join in. “I will not second guess the president” was his only comment while the Mitt Romneys of the world socked it to Mr. O.

Chances are Mr. Snyder will not bash the president. He is not the bashing type.

As a former GOP president was fond of saying, “Not gonna happen" much to the chagrin of other state Republicans who would like the governor to be somebody he is not.