Joe Biden’s speech last night to a joint session of Congress was a way-apparent success and a BFD — one of those orations that not only sits well in the mind, but had enough bite to float in the memory for awhile. Not only the image of two females behind him on the dias, but the words of America reborn filled the event picture.
The big draw in the speech was Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Families Plan, granting aid in a huge New Deal-like plan for education (make community college tuition-free, for instance) and child care. He said the proposal would be paid for by taxing the rich.
I can dig it.

Biden’s entire presentation went against a 40-year grain of smaller government started by Ron Reagan and has always been shit. And Joe hit an FDR truthful note: ‘“My fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked,” Biden said during his speech. “It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.”‘

Meanwhile, Republicans offered up only a clown show response. The GQP has evolved into a mishmash of stunts and victim-playing with absolutely no hint at all on governing — and if there’s been any action at all on their part, it’s an obvious under-perfromance, like Senate Republicans’ offer on an infrastructure plan, so minuscule ‘“it fails to meet the moment we’re in,”‘ which seems to reflect the entire GQP apparatus.
In that tenor of sense, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace right-on rebuke of Tim Scott’s Republican rebuttal to Biden’s speech also described the GQP’s current status: ‘“This is a speech delivered from a planet where facts don’t matter, which is where the current Republican Party resides … It’s really not his fault, but it is his responsibility to get his facts straight.”‘

I beg to differ slightly, Nicolle (whom I really like, even though she was communications director for GW Bush), but it is Scott’s fault — he can see and hear and make up his own mind. Republicans as a whole right now a f*cking mess.

So, in that context, this little incident between Biden and Liz Cheney as Joe was making his way to the poduim makes a wonder-screw go loose:

Biden fistbumped Liz Cheney, No. 3 House Republican, on his way to the podium: pic.twitter.com/ibCM0FlOS6

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) April 29, 2021

Some scant details at Politico last night:

Rep. Liz Cheney scored a fist bump from President Joe Biden as he entered the House chamber for his first joint address to Congress.

It’s a move that will likely turn heads, especially among Republicans who might view the greeting as cozying up to a president they fault for muscling his agenda through Congress without bipartisan support.
Cheney (R-Wyo.) has also found herself on shaky footing in recent days, as her relationship with House Minority Leader has grown increasingly frosty.
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Cheney, though, seems to have the support of at least one prominent GOP lawmaker, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The two exchanged a lengthy handshake with and shared words at the address.
McConnell himself has frequently found himself at odds with the former president, who has taken shots at both lawmakers in statements since leaving office.

Despite any friendly optics, Cheney distanced herself from Biden after the address, issuing a statement that said Biden’s policies were “bad for Wyoming and bad for America.”

“I will fight back against these dangerous plans and always stand up for the interests of our state and for the constitutional values that we hold dear,” she said.

Maybe just bullshit as always and Liz just couldn’t help herself in the fever of the moment with Joe right there and fist-bumping a lot of Demos before her. Female version of the male asshole, and, she’s her daddy’s girl.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz continued to show his shit side by dozing off in class:

He’s a Bad senator but he’s a good gif

pic.twitter.com/kHMAlch4Jj

— Molly Jong-Fast? (@MollyJongFast) April 29, 2021

Cruz is a hideous joke, but really, really dangerous in his vile contempt for real life — per The Washington Post this morning on Ted’s bullshit, baby-crib time:

As President Biden detailed his immigration policy in his address to a joint session of Congress on the heels of his first 100 days in office, C-SPAN’s cameras cut to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).
With viewers watching, Cruz’s eyelids drooped repeatedly, and his eyes appeared to roll back into his head.

The apparently impromptu nap — which echoed an earlier bit of eye-resting by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) as Biden discussed his push for a higher minimum wage — left “The Daily Show” tying Cruz’s slumber to his state’s massive power outages earlier this year.

“Looks like Ted’s eyes are hooked up to his state’s power grid,” the show tweeted.
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Cruz, though, tried to turn his lethargy into a political weapon.
On Twitter, he quickly retweeted a clip showing him nodding off with a hashtag aimed at Biden: “#BoringButRadical.”
On Fox News, the senator repeated that phrase “boring, but radical” while trying to make the same delicate balance of criticisms. While Cruz complained that Biden had said “nothing notable,” he also accused him of making “radical” proposals.

“Joe is deliberately being boring,” Cruz told Fox News, “but the substance of what he’s saying is radical.”

WTF, Ted?

Anyway, another GQP show-off was intentional — Lauren Boebert just revealed more synonyms for doltish, halfwitted ignoramus:

It's a silly thing when a member of Congress makes a speech to their body using not just charts but props. But to pull out props as the sitting president speaks to the nation is just disrespectful. Just another example of the unqualified @laurenboebert being an imbecile. https://t.co/mnt7O1x2ss

— Just Wear The Damn Mask (@jeffwontshutup) April 29, 2021

The shit per The Hill, also this morning:

A spokesperson for Boebert told The Hill that she was trying to highlight the recent surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“President Biden did not address or bring attention to the crisis at our southern border. So Rep. Boebert did,” the spokesperson said.

Boebert tweeted about 30 times providing real-time reactions to Biden’s address, including multiple missives questioning the social distancing measures in place during the event, making references to Biden’s son Hunter and highlighting the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Reporters in the House chamber noted that the blanket made a loud noise as Boebert draped it over her lap.

Twitter responsed — see some tweets at Raw Story. Boebart indeed is an imdecile, which is explained by the Republican party.

A people of the land … the common clay … you know, morons:

Yet mean, nasty, lying assholes who are shitting large, toxic turds on America.
Go for it Joe…

(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Seated Pierrot,’ found here).