Symone D. Sanders-Townsend: During the State of the Union address, Speaker McCarthy was so disturbed by his peers’ behavior that he audibly shushed them. McCarthy is not the Republican conference’s mother. He is their elected leader.
that the president was a liar. Again, refusing to lose his cool, Biden encouraged the lawmakers to contact his office for proof. And then he rallied the entire chamber to give Social Security and Medicare a standing ovation, since apparently no one wanted to cut it.
It was quite the moment. But there were plenty of others, like when Biden said he told the Republicans who did not vote his infrastructure bill, but still asked him to fund projects in their districts, that he would “see them at the groundbreaking.”Lesson No. 2: Many Republican members of Congress lack respect for the speaker they struggled to elect.
Growing up, my mother sometimes would issue a warning to us before we went into a store with her. It would be some version of, “We better not have any problems in here.” Basically, she was telling us to be on our best behavior. And we would usually comply, because we respected her.Spoiler alert: They did not.
Lesson No. 3: When Biden is talking about working class people and good-paying union jobs, he is not only speaking about white folks in America. Before Tuesday’s address, I told my colleagues Joy Reid, Jen Psaki and Michael Steele that Black and brown people are working-class people too. In other words, the economic message the president delivers has to speak to them — not just white workers. Smartly, Biden wrapped his economic accomplishments in story and prose. To highlight the impact of his bipartisan infrastructure bill, he lifted upfrom Kentucky.
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