Congressman Blumenauer, D- OR, takes hard pass on SOTU

[Leghorn21]

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Wonder if he’s the first member of Congress to take a powder here...well, hope he’s not the last to say

NOPE

Thank you, Rep. Blumenauer!!

[gratuitous]

1. Thanks to my representative

May he lead a parade of his fellow representatives out of the Capitol.

[Aristus]

2. Well, more room in the chamber and the galleries for Trump's target audience.

Cocaine-crazed chimpanzees, I'm guessing...

[Siwsan]

3. I'm half expecting trump* to wander off script and become FULLY unhinged.

Especially when/if Democrats stay seated and hold their applause. I'm hoping that if he goes off on a delusional, self-aggrandizing spree, people start to walk out.

[jayschool2013]

4. I hope Drumpf goes full "El Presidente"

[LeftInTX]

9. Would be funny, if he grabbed that speech!

[FSogol]

5. I wish he had said, "Rather than listening to another destructive, divisive speech by Trump, I will

not attend this year’s annual address to Congress. Instead, like I did during his inauguration, I'll be at home organizing my sock drawer."

[madinmaryland]

7. You know, I think instead of watching tRump blather on for an hours, I will

empty and clean the cat litter boxes and pick up all the dog shit in the yard.

[csziggy]

17. Similar aroma but more productive! nt

[Permanut]

6. He's my Rep..

We're fortunate to have him.

[Ken Burch]

8. Towards the end of the Nixon era, a lot of the Congress skipped his joint session speeches.

You'd see half the chamber empty.

I remember the camera picking out George McGovern, who only two years earlier had been the victim of the worst of Nixon's "dirty tricks" campaign, sitting there as one of the few Democratic senators who had shown up...a touching moment of magananimity and strength of character on McGovern's part.

[CTyankee]

10. I hope those Dems who attend the SOTU will all turn their backs to Trump...

it would be so stirring to see a pic of that. And what's Trump gonna do about it?

It would make a great photo of resistance, IMO...

[TNNurse]

15. He would have people start investigating them for something.

That seems to be his current deflection from his own issues.

[jalan48]

11. He won't have to pump his own gas when he's here either.

[Libloom]

12. If 45 really has dementia, how nervous are his handlers

About seeing him up there giving the sotu?

[BigmanPigman]

13. I hope the female members of Congress wear white again

and refuse to stand up! I will skip it as I usually do. It is best for my health. I haven't watched since 2010 when the GOP sneered at Obama so much I almost had a coronary. Now I boycott all of the daily pressers with Fuckubee Sanders and I would boycott the Fucking Moron's too but he hasn't had one in about 10 months for some reason (could it be due to his mental instability and crisis management?).

[leftinalabama]

14. I hope someone gets up and

Yells. YOU LIE !!!!

[Mr.Bill]

16. About 600 times. n/t