Folks, Biden Gave a Hell of a Speech, Walking McCarthy and Crew into a Bind
Folks, Biden Gave a Hell of a Speech, Walking McCarthy and Crew into a Bind
Republican hecklers underestimated his appetite for bare-knuckle politics.
By Charles P. PiercePUBLISHED: FEB 8, 2023
...We saw it again Tuesday night when President Joe Biden freight-trained his whackadoo Republican opposition in his State of the Union address. He also flipped the very idea of the State of the Union address on its head by turning it into an American equivalent of the prime minister's Question Time in the British Parliament. He wrapped them in a bear hug so warm that they didn't realize they were being smothered. He took on hecklers like a veteran of a Catskills resort. He smiled, he laughed, he bellowed when it was called for. He had the only microphone in the room, and he used it like a hammer.
Predictably—and laughably—the Republican opposition walked right into every clout. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, dressed (as a friend of mine said) like the White Witch of Narnia, howled from the backbenches. Speaker Kevin McCarthy was on camera as often as the president was, and we could all watch as the vice grips got progressively tighter. As for the rest of the Angry Children's Caucus, they hit all their marks and delivered their lines perfectly as the president led them merrily over the falls....
The real party piece came when he dared to mention that the Republicans want to gut Social Security and Medicare—which in the case of Social Security has been a Republican goal since “The Shadow” was on the radio. He baited them and baited them, and they went for it like starving carp....
[Howard Cosell voice:] "Down goes McCarthy! Down goes McCarthy!”
It was the best speech Joe Biden ever has given because it was the most Joe Biden speech anyone ever has given. It was all him, aimed right at all of us, addressed to all of us—you know, the folks.
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