USA Today: "Dark Brandon shows up at State of the
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USA Today: "Dark Brandon shows up at State of the Union, mops the floor with lost Republicans"
Biden went off script regularly, parrying GOP lawmakers who heckled him, at one point backing the party into a corner and getting them to swear to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits.
Rex Huppke
USA TODAY
President Joe Biden, at the ripe age of 80, came out with ample vim and vigor in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address and proceeded to mop the House floor with the howling, discombobulated remains of the Republican Party.
Preaching populism and leaning hard on his noted skill as the empathizer-in-chief, Biden bounded through a speech that acknowledged the nation’s struggles while remaining unerringly optimistic. He went off script regularly, parrying Republican lawmakers who heckled him, at one point backing the whole party into a corner and getting them to swear to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits.
I’ve never seen anything like it in a State of the Union speech – they ran at him like a pack of lemmings and, with a wink and a grin, he politely directed them to the cliff.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/column...202538002/
Playbook notes President Biden had a few goals last night:
Remind his audience of his accomplishments over the last two years.
Reiterate his positions in the spending debate (no negotiations over the debt ceiling and no touching Social Security and Medicare).
Detail the most popular highlights of his 2023 agenda.
Expose his congressional GOP opposition as unreasonable and chaotic.
“The speech accomplished the first three goals if you listened or read it carefully. But it will be best remembered for the dramatic clashes with jeering members of the GOP which may have done more than Biden ever could have hoped to accomplish goal No. 4.”
John Harris: “With boos, taunts, groans, and sarcastic chortles, the opposition party effectively turned themselves into prime-time props for President Joseph Biden."
Heather Gardner
@heathergtv
Brilliant move by Biden during SOTU.
He called out Republicans’ unbelievable plan to sunset Medicare and social security (I’ll name him: Rick Scott) and used the heckling to his advantage.
Now Republicans will be liars if they follow through.
Biden went off script regularly, parrying GOP lawmakers who heckled him, at one point backing the party into a corner and getting them to swear to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits.
Rex Huppke
USA TODAY
President Joe Biden, at the ripe age of 80, came out with ample vim and vigor in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address and proceeded to mop the House floor with the howling, discombobulated remains of the Republican Party.
Preaching populism and leaning hard on his noted skill as the empathizer-in-chief, Biden bounded through a speech that acknowledged the nation’s struggles while remaining unerringly optimistic. He went off script regularly, parrying Republican lawmakers who heckled him, at one point backing the whole party into a corner and getting them to swear to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits.
I’ve never seen anything like it in a State of the Union speech – they ran at him like a pack of lemmings and, with a wink and a grin, he politely directed them to the cliff.
...................
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/column...202538002/
Playbook notes President Biden had a few goals last night:
Remind his audience of his accomplishments over the last two years.
Reiterate his positions in the spending debate (no negotiations over the debt ceiling and no touching Social Security and Medicare).
Detail the most popular highlights of his 2023 agenda.
Expose his congressional GOP opposition as unreasonable and chaotic.
“The speech accomplished the first three goals if you listened or read it carefully. But it will be best remembered for the dramatic clashes with jeering members of the GOP which may have done more than Biden ever could have hoped to accomplish goal No. 4.”
John Harris: “With boos, taunts, groans, and sarcastic chortles, the opposition party effectively turned themselves into prime-time props for President Joseph Biden."
Heather Gardner
@heathergtv
Brilliant move by Biden during SOTU.
He called out Republicans’ unbelievable plan to sunset Medicare and social security (I’ll name him: Rick Scott) and used the heckling to his advantage.
Now Republicans will be liars if they follow through.
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