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Matthews---Brown Noser to power extraordinaire. The same guy who said Bush had a "sunny nobility.

And why is a bigot like Kim Davis being allowed to sit in on the STOU? Will #BLM leadership be able to attend if a republican wins the Presidency?
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Have they got Paul Ryan tranquilized? I know that Republicans have a tendency towards drug and alcohol abuse, but he really looks out of it.
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@1

Apparently she was given a ticket by her Congressperson's office. The MC claims he didn't find out he had invited her till today.
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@1 and @3 - Apparently the Congress Member's office gave a pair of tickets to the Liberty Counsel and the head, Mat Barber, brought her as his guest. But I'm skeptical that the Congress Member didn't know this would happen since Liberty Counsel represented her, and which else give them tickets?
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Correction - It was the Family Research Counsel who gave her the ticket. and LC's Executive Director is Mat Saver, not Mat Barber.
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On the climate change thing....

It's really nice to see Obama saying something that so few Western politicians have said. I've hardly seen this from any national leader in a developed country.

Last year, I was talking to a senior Chinese government person. She said there was a fundamental difference between the way that China is looking at climate change policy over the next few years, and the way the US, Europe and other developed countries are. "They look at the problem of climate change, and they think 'How much is this going to cost us? Is it worth damaging our economy in order to prevent catastrophic climate change? How much damage can we sustain to our economy by taking action on climate change?' But China thinks 'Well, we need to stop catastrophic climate change. So how do we make money out of it? If there's going to be a massive market for green energy, how do we lead it?'"

So when Obama says "why would we want to pass up the chance for American businesses to produce and sell the energy of the future?", that's brilliant. It just would have been nice if he - and his counterparts in the rest of the world - had said it earlier.
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Here's looking at you Kim, though I'd rather not.
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I left Iowa thirty years ago, and Kim Davis' look was tired there then.
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Pretty good. I liked what he said about climate change and clean energy.

To answer Marco Rubio's posited question, snakes are descended from lizards.
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@8, please don't ever leave this forum. I've been (mostly) lurking for about seven years and really miss the Fnarfs, Gloomy Guses, Canucks, and others of the not-too-distant SLOG world. I'm sure there are others who bowed out before my arrival.
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I tried to watch the republican response but it drives me completely nuts to be spoken to as though I am a dim witted 5-year old. I did hear her talk about respecting religious freedom which should be translated as religious (christian) privilege.
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@8, @10, I second that request. SLOG's Favorite Mannequin, never leave us!
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@8

Well, Kentucky is clearly more sophisticated.
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@9

I thought they were descended from planes.
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@6, Obama rolls like that: He talks the progressive talk after the horse has left the barn; when he doesn't have the time or the congress, or when the critical mass has already gone along with it, e.g., gay marriage, to put such sentiments into action. But he did go out of his way to pass the Health Care corporate give away ACA when he could have pushed single payer and also pushed the potentially anti labor anti sovereignty TTP.
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@12: It's not a mannequin. That's her, and she has to be careful wherever ceiling fans are present.
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@15: I think you missed the part when he talked about citizen cynicism.
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That much forehead on a woman is disturbing, and/or the sign of a disturbed woman.

Sister wife hair.

Bangs aren't rocket science, honey.

Also: if you're going to be on camera in Washington Dee Cee, you might want to be more polished in your pattern mixing of Kmart polyester knit wear.
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@18: Some people think they're dressing up when they put on ugly sweaters.
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I guess I then understand how it is she came to be there, though I'm still pretty baffled as to why. I mean, I guess she used to be a democrat (DINO, perhaps) though I can't imagine she hasn't swallowed up the GOP love and adulation they've thrown her way wholeheartedly. Is she really now so political that she was interested in the content of the speech? (I ask in jest.)

Rather, I can only assume she's now essentially a political "celebrity" of sorts, and so needs to to do all the PR-ish see-and-be-seen type of activities expected of such people. She's an even more repugnant and detestable Kardashian.
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@21: Despite anyone's politics, a ticket to the State of the Union speech is hard to turn down. She simply wanted to attend. I'm not defending her; everyone is reading too much into it.
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@15, if you think Obama could have gotten single-payer out of Congress, you have not been paying attention. We're lucky he got what he did.
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Davis has plenty to mock outside of her looks. Pretty sexist and misogynist, don't you think?
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@23, He had a brief window of democratic majorities in both houses in the early days of his administration to fight for it, but he revealed himself to not be the "change you can believe in" kind of president to twist the arms of the blue dogs nor fight big health insurance.
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Theodore, It would be cruel to make fun of her for something she couldn't help, but a dumb outfit and ridiculous hairdo are fair game. Just like we make fun of Trump for whatever that is on his head. If she would invest in a bottle of cream rinse and relax that mullet a bit, her hair would be fine - and a stroll through the casuals department at Sears would do her a world of good.
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@25 Didn't the Clintons have a brief window of democratic majorities in both houses in the early days of Bill's administration to fight for some decent health care as they tried to twist the arms of the blue dogs and took on big health insurance? Any idea how that turned out?
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@21

I imagine she was there as part of her mission from God to stand up for the kind of "Christian" she claims to be against the homo-friendly forces of darkness that the President must represent to her. I'm just surprised that she appears to have behaved herself there.
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"6:52: Wouldn't It be nice if the members of Congress were the reasonable, rational people Obama does such a good job of pretending he believes they are?"

Yes.
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@24 ~ Theodore, Yes. Rarely stops anyone from doing so - liberal or conservative, doesn't matter. Sexism and misogyny are at play, though I also think we mostly default to grammar school name-calling when someone thinks and acts differently than we do. Maligning people's physical characteristics and wardrobe will lose appeal at some point. (I've got the same kinds of judgements everyone does, and I can trash talk a blue streak - I just don't usually, these days. Doesn't benefit anyone, and harms more than helps.)

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And I believe it's also disrespectful to attend something as important as the State of the Union speech in Congress, in what you'd wear to pick up a moon pie at the Quickee Mart.

That woman made more money than I do, before she began cashing in on wingnut welfare.

I'm 65 and even at a Republican Presidents SotU I'd make an effort to look presentable, despite limited funds.

Put on a dress, or a suit (bought at Goodwill or on ebay), some drugstore makeup, get my hair cut at Fantastic Sams.

And yes there are Crazy Lady (and Crazy Man) looks that indicate personality and sociopathy and deep in the bone mean spiritedness.

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@31: Yeah, and she looked kind of fat too. How rude to attend the SOTU speech looking fat. What a bitch, amirite?
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@31
@33 has a pretty good explanation, I think. I recall her current husband getting mocked for his overalls. It may or may not be in questionable taste to make fun of how they dress, but given that history, calling jokes about her wardrobe yesterday sexism is just silly, but as we know, concern trollz gotta troll.
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@seatackled: down under, overalls are back in again. Or they were for five minutes in '15.
I agree with one of the tweets Dan posted, although being a grandparent should not be used as a slight.. What a mean looking bunch of nasties run the U.S.
Their rude looks while their President talked spoke volumes.
Kim fitted in fine.
Michele as always looked beautiful, healthy and alive.
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@34: You do not think it is a tad hypocritical to claim that the sexist practice of judging/criticizing a woman's worth by her looks is wrong, unless that individual has a different political outlook than you, or does things you disapprove of?

Can you list some other individuals that it is ok to be sexist or racist towards to help me understand this belief you have?
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#32 I'm fat, so go fuck yourself sideways, troll.
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And I'm a woman, a feminist of nearly a half century standing, and no one was judging the sex police troll on her looks ALONE, now were they?

That she comes in as pissy a package as her policies is self evident.

And at this event that should have been one for respectfull dress, at the least, is a given.

So fuck yourself sideways with a roto rooter, concern troll.
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Its also unlikely Davis will come to a bad end: she'll keep cashing the checks of her wildly overpaid (by the usual standards of even that particular office) wingnut welfare job, even tho SHE REFUSES TO DO IT.

But that's just her day job gravy train: now that Davis has been on the tee vee, the extra curricular wing nut welfare will flow ad infinitum.

Decades upon decades later, the Phyllis Schafly zombies of wingnuttia continued to suckle the grifters teat, unto the second generation.

She'll be able to swaddle herself in mismatched Kmart sweaters well past her dotage.

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@38: Got it, you can mock other women for their looks, but no one better touch on yours. Not hypocritical at all.

Also, Roto-Rooter is a company, not an object. Have a lovely day.
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While it's fun telling you to go fuck yourself, over and over, it's tiresome to unpack the straw women you create and claim are me.

So go fuck yourself with straw, it will resemble a fuck with an actual human, to the same degree as your straw women resemble me.

Toodles, troll!

You and the glamorous Kim, have much in common.
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Avowed Obstructionists Invite Obstructionist Poster Child to State Event in Petty, Vindictive Move to Snub the President and All He Stands For. No One is Surprised.
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@43: I don't see it that way. She is among elected office holders whom are more likely to get tickets for the SOTU. But it was actually most fitting the bigoted Ms. Davis was hearing words of great support for the people that she refused to give marriage licenses to - from the president of the United States -- right there in the house chamber with whatever wardrobe she could muster.
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@40:
Judybrowni didn't mention anyone's weight, critically or otherwise. She said that she felt dressing that casually for such an important occasion was disrespectful. Had her husband attended in his overalls that too would have been disrespectful.
You have a real yen to find hypocrisy in others and I have noticed that in these instances you often pretend a concern you do not actually feel. You appear to be mostly just interested in that little pop of superiority you get in your amygdala when you think you have an opportunity to skewer some one. Sometimes in your zeal chasing that high, you are mistaken. This would be one of those times.
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I just think she's tacky. And not in a fun way.
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@46: You ain't wrong, Miss Vel-DuRay.
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@47: I believe it's Mrs. Vel-DuRay - as she is cohabiting with benefit of clergy.
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@48: Oh! I think you're right! My apologies to the couple.

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