Opinion from Bill Goodykoontz: President Biden's State of the Union address should be a dignified affair. Last year, Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene made it anything but.
if last year’s was any indication
Once in a great while, everyone will stand and cheer. You know, the usual. It’s not typically the bickering display that goes on in the House of Commons or a local school board meeting or anything.This Arizona-born actor-turned-journalist isn't afraid of 'uncomfortable situations'Except for some reason — well, the reason is the occupant of the White House from 2017-2021 — decorum seems to have been not just lost but taken out back and buried in a hole.
When Biden spoke, rather movingly, about damage to soldiers from burn pits in Afghanistan, talking about “a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin — I know,” he was clearly talking about his late son, Beau. He mentioned him by name, but not before Boebert yelled, “You put them in there, 13 of them!”Because she bragged about it in a tweet.It was, if nothing else, interesting television, in the sense that it was something you don’t see often, like an exploding whale or something.
This doesn’t mean every public gathering of elected officials needs to be a stodgy affair with tuxes, tails and monocles. Heated debate is healthy and, you know, fun to watch.
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