OK Kossians, HANDS UP if you're SICK & TIRED of the way we respond to State of the Union addresses.
Does anyone here think a couple congresscritters muttering in an otherwise empty room, pre-recorded so they aren't even responding to what the president said, comes up just a tiny bit LIMP compared to the pageantry of the House and one standing ovation after another?
We are, after all, the country that invented the laugh-track...Americans don't know how to react to something on TV unless they are prompted by the reaction of an audience.
CAN'T WE DO SOMETHING BETTER?
Let's figure out how:
I say we put forward credible CANDIDATES every year who are PRESIDENTIAL material. No use in exchanging a president for a career congresscritter: that is like a Chess Queen going up against a Castle. Sure, our candidates could come from congress, or they could be governors, or mayors, or whoever. But this is an opportunity to ADDRESS THE NATION and we can't fritter it away on tradition and seniority.
Let's find a friendly statehouse or other similarly regal space and fill it with rabid Democratic partisans. Let's write an Obama-grade speech that is concise enough for the networks to cover and uplifting enough to send the crowd wild and the TV Audience asking questions.
And most of all, LET'S SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF THE REPUBLICANS. To the point they start over-reaching in their speeches, as they did with "Weapons of Mass Distraction Program-Related Activities" and Bush's recreational snorting of Nigerian Yellowcake.
KICK ASS DEMS. NO QUARTER.