The Fifth State of the Union for President Barack Obama is in the can, and boy was it a dozy. President Obama took the GOP for a ride Tuesday night. He did everything you but slap the GOP in the face and challenge them to a duel. He mocked them. He harried their flanks forcing them to either stand and applaud or own their obstruction. He pushed them and eventually backed them into a corner.
The President drew a bright line between his party, his vision, and that of the Regressive Right. He talked about everything from income inequality to people’s lives being saved by ObamaCare; everything from ending the longest war in the history of this country to the demanding the US corporations begin to act in the best interest of the nation – and that includes hiring vets and the long time unemployed, paying their fair share of taxes, and stopping their cynical amoral attempt to undermine the electoral process.
Years ago the chamber changed, and Rs and Ds decided to sit amongst each other rather than having the chamber starkly divided. The President used this mishmash of Ds sitting with Rs to force applause, to push people to their feet, and to draw the stark contrast of a Party attempting to govern a divided nation and a Party content to just say no.
The GOP is delusional. Their hashtags on Twitter last night were filled with barely contained rage and hate. They offered no real arguments against what the President said, simply that he lied or was a liar. They had not one concrete idea for helping anyone. They aren’t just a party of Regression and hate, they are increasingly becoming a party of stupidity and clownish devotion to idiocracy.
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