The (Sorry) State of Our Union

State of the Union 2020

“Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving. America’s enemies are on the run, America’s fortunes are on the rise.” – President Donald Trump

State of the Union 2022

“Record high inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, a war on American energy, unprecedented border crisis, Americans abandoned in Afghanistan, parents labeled as terrorists, record high violent crime, never-ending covid.” – Mercedes Schlapp

BOEBERT’S FAMOUS LAST WORDS

The Republican response to Joe Biden’s (Sorry) State of the Union address was typically lame.  It was standard-issue, inside-the-beltway, talking-point pablum written by poli-sci grads. Didn’t exactly send a tingle up anyone’s leg.

The response SHOULD have been delivered by Donald Trump.  That would have been epic.  “Brandon” would have wet his Depends.

But absent that, my vote for the best person to deliver the response would have been for Rep. Lauren Boebert, Colorado Republican.  She could have just read the tweets she put out before, during and after the speech.  A sampling…

• “Alright everybody, here we go. LET’S GET READY TO MUMBLE!!!”
• “Joe Biden just mumbled a sentence about clarity…ironic.”
• “Joe, you weren’t prepared. Ukraine has been asking for weapons and ammo for months and just like always you were slow to answer the call.”
• “Nancy (Pelosi) looks a bit sad tonight. Have they already put sanctions on the Russian vodka?”
• “President Trump’s tax cuts put more money in all Americans’ pockets. Biden’s massive trillion-dollar spending sprees have led to the highest inflation in 40 years and hit all Americans’ pocketbooks.”
• “Letting people return to jobs that Democrats killed due to lockdowns is NOT job creation, Joe. You didn’t create a single job.  Allowing people to go back to work isn’t job creation.”
• “Is the entire Democrat Party going to act like they didn’t just defund and demonize the police for the last 2 years?”
• “Let’s get all Americans the mental healthcare they need… starting with Joe Biden.”
• “Joe Biden believes in recovery? Is that why he just tried to give $30,000,000 to funding crack pipes?”
• “Infrastructure bill? 9% of the money went to infrastructure.  Sure, that’s higher than his approval rating but still lower than the 10% cut for the big guy.”
• “Joe Biden is the one who raised the price of insulin after Trump lowered it.”
• “Biden’s poll numbers are at an all-time low. But don’t stress Joe, go have some margaritas and take a kickboxing class. I’m sure you’ll feel better.”
• “He can’t promise a new variant won’t come because he has to see how the polling shapes up for his re-election first.”
• “The unity agenda for our nation is to get you out of the White House.”
• “Here’s another way to fight inflation: Resign.”
• “1/3 of all inflation was because of car sales? No Joe, 100% of inflation is because of YOU!”
• “Secure our border?!?!? You’re the one who opened it!!!”
• “You can’t build a wall high enough to stop a vaccine? You CAN build a wall to stop the unvaccinated illegals, though.”
• “I’ll say it louder for the folks in the back: BUILD THE WALL!!!”
• “The best way to improve the State of the Union is for Biden to announce his resignation.”
• “Every word you heard from Joe Biden was a lie. We expected bad, but the #SOTU is worse than we ever could’ve imagined.”
• “The left is pissed because I called out Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 of America’s finest in a flag-draped coffin. They are mad because a speech was ‘interrupted.’ Ask the families who lost their loved ones how interrupted their lives are now.”

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views and blogs at MuthsTruths.com