Let’s face it: Tuesday night’s State of the Union address had some interesting and raucous moments. Some Congressional Republicans weren’t going to let Joe Biden get away with his mo.
Let’s face it: Tuesday night’s State of the Union address had some interesting and raucous moments. Some Congressional Republicans weren’t going to let Joe Biden get away with his most egregious lies, and they spoke out.
The behavior we saw from Republicans didn’t use to be what we were accustomed to during State of the Union speeches. This year’s State of the Union more resembled the British House of Commons than the U.S. House of Representatives, and it served as a way for viewers across the nation to see the GOP hold the president’s feet to the fire.
“This kind of thing is supposed to be a no-no at State of the Union addresses, which take our democratic institutions and submerge them in all the pageantry of the ancient Persian court,” points out Matt Purple at The Spectator World. “The president is supposed to be a sun-god in these moments, with everyone else his captive worshippers.”
Some critics have decried the “heckling” — or, as PJ Media’s own Rick Moran referred to it in a team Slack channel, “just speaking truth to power” — on the part of some GOP members, but one freshman member of the Republican delegation says that the president should have seen it coming.
