And that hilarity was the absolute, unabashed hypocrisy of the GOP members of Congress.
Did you notice it at all? Did you?
As much as I liked Obama's speech (and damn you, Mr. President, for making me cry with the story of the little girl from South Carolina), I was actually laughing through the whole thing.
And that was watching the GOP Congresscritters give standing Os to nearly everything the President said.
Here in a nutshell is how I think it went down:
The beginning of the speech concentrated on the passage of the stimulus plan, so you saw the Republicans essentially sit on their hands in terms of applause.
But as the President continued his speech, you could see Boehner and McConnell visibly panic. "Damn," they thought, "this guy is really good."
Cue the vibrations of Blackberrys going off in the chamber. A text message to the Republican caucus:
"Guys, if we don't clap at what the President has to say, we are going to look like real assholes. Get up outta your seats."
So what did we get?
Republicans giving a standing ovation to more banking regulations.(!)
Republicans giving a standing ovation to health care reform.(!!)
Republicans giving a standing ovation to the end of torture.(!!!)
Um, hello? Seriously? Forget Obama triangulating the right. These guys just essentially wholeheartedly applauded the repudiation of their rule from the past eight years.
If I'm Rahm Emanuel, I'm writing down all their names and keeping it in a black book for later use.
Seriously, the "me-tooism" of these hypocrites was delicious to watch. As big as Bobby Jindal's fail was, the massive fail of the Goopers in the House Chamber to latch on to the Obama agenda was the biggest fail of all.
And it made me laugh out loud the whole time.