MemberDark Brandon showed up at the SOTU and mops the floor with the lost and helpless Republicans. Biden bounded through a speech that acknowledged the nation's struggles while remaining unerringly optimistic. He went off script regularly, parrying Republican lawmakers who heckled him, at one point backing the whole party into a corner and getting them to swear to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits. What a win!
Ol' Joe, at the ripe age of 80, came out with plenty vim and vigor and proceeded to mop the House floor with the howling, discombobulated remains of the Republican Party. They ran at him like a pack of lemmings and, with a wink and a grin, he politely directed them to the cliff.
Biden talked about a boom in infrastructure projects and his 300+ pieces of bipartisan legislation signed. Republicans kept quiet. Biden quipped, "I'll see you at the groundbreaking." Biden said the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in decades. Some offered tepid applause while others kept quiet. If you don't cheer for democracy, improved infrastructure and a low unemployment rate, people are going to wonder whose team you're on.
The Republican lawmakers' unwillingness to applaud popular accomplishments that help people, coupled with repeated acts of childish heckling that Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, seated behind Biden, tried and failed to shush, showed how weak and devoid of ideas their party has become.
When the president was speaking about a man who lost his child to a fentanyl overdose, Republicans began shouting him down, one yelling, "It's your fault!" Biden responded by asking them to join him and launch "a major surge" to stop fentanyl production and provide border agents with "more drug detection machines to inspect cargo."
That, of course, shut the Republicans up, because they don't want to consider a solution, they just want to have something to holler and complain about.
The midterm elections showed clearly that the American people are not buying the kind of performative outrage Republicans are selling. But on Tuesday night, while the older guy they routinely describe as "senile" was energetically promoting hope and ideas that might make the country a better place, performative outrage was, again, all GOP lawmakers had.
Ol' Joe, at the ripe age of 80, came out with plenty vim and vigor and proceeded to mop the House floor with the howling, discombobulated remains of the Republican Party. They ran at him like a pack of lemmings and, with a wink and a grin, he politely directed them to the cliff.
Biden talked about a boom in infrastructure projects and his 300+ pieces of bipartisan legislation signed. Republicans kept quiet. Biden quipped, "I'll see you at the groundbreaking." Biden said the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in decades. Some offered tepid applause while others kept quiet. If you don't cheer for democracy, improved infrastructure and a low unemployment rate, people are going to wonder whose team you're on.
The Republican lawmakers' unwillingness to applaud popular accomplishments that help people, coupled with repeated acts of childish heckling that Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, seated behind Biden, tried and failed to shush, showed how weak and devoid of ideas their party has become.
When the president was speaking about a man who lost his child to a fentanyl overdose, Republicans began shouting him down, one yelling, "It's your fault!" Biden responded by asking them to join him and launch "a major surge" to stop fentanyl production and provide border agents with "more drug detection machines to inspect cargo."
That, of course, shut the Republicans up, because they don't want to consider a solution, they just want to have something to holler and complain about.
The midterm elections showed clearly that the American people are not buying the kind of performative outrage Republicans are selling. But on Tuesday night, while the older guy they routinely describe as "senile" was energetically promoting hope and ideas that might make the country a better place, performative outrage was, again, all GOP lawmakers had.
