I’ll add that Tim Scott’s rebuttal has already been appropriately criticized for multiple blatant misstatements. The bit about the Georgia law is just one area where he flat-out lied. I’ve read the law. It’s not a “pro-voting” law at all, unless you only want Right Wingers to vote in Georgia. It’s a revenge law, designed to punish the voters who picked Joe Biden and the election officials who didn’t do enough to toss the Biden votes out. I lost count of the number of poison pills in that law, but the intention is to make it so difficult for Black voters to participate in Georgia that they’ll presumably surrender and allow the Right Wing to have their way. Not sure that it will play out in that fashion – but we should keep in mind that we now have a Far Right judiciary and a Far Far Right 6-3 Supreme Court. Meaning that the litigation challenging the Georgia law is likely to be met with 5-6 unfriendly faces when it gets to the high court. (My expectation is that they will assert states’ rights over elections and tell those Georgia voters that if they want to change the election laws they should vote for different legislators.)

Biden delivered a simple, heartfelt speech that discussed bringing everyone together, working together and finding ways of turning crises like the pandemic and climate change into opportunities for Americans to help each other and get back to work. He supported democracy over autocracy, and he repeatedly pointed out that generating jobs would help the economy. I note that his tax discussion was actually quite benign. He correctly noted that restoring the 39.6% rate for people earning over 400K isn’t a “big increase” but rather just returning the rate to what it was before the GOP Tax Transfer. He did not note that his adjustment of the corporate rate to 28% is still a cut from what that rate was before the Tax Transfer. He did note, correctly, that most of the big corps pay little to no taxes at all (which is why angry Right Wingers wanted the rates lowered even farther than 21%).

The reaction of angry Right Wingers to this address has been to ignore the actual statements and to cherry pick their own interpretations of various pieces. Biden never argued for autocracy, as some pundits are pretending today – he argued for democracy. He never argued for communism – he argued for capitalism. He never argued against the American people – he asked Republicans in Congress to behave themselves and work to get something done rather than being obstructionists.

I note that angry Right Wingers on Fox News and elsewhere in the Right Wing Media Bubble are now pretending that somehow the Biden/Harris White House is “attacking America” and that somehow everything rides on the 2022 midterms to save the country. Does this sound familiar? It should. It’s the identical playbook to how they handled the Obama White House, when they insisted in 2009 and 2010 that those midterms were the last chance to save America from Obama and the Democratic Party. And as of January 2011, Sean Hannity was angrily sneering “We’re on the Road to 2012!” where he hoped that Obama would be swept out of office. Then they told everyone that the 2014 midterms were the last chance to stop the Obama White House from destroying the country. Then they told everyone that the 2016 election was the last chance to save the country, which could only be done by electing Pence’s childish spokesman. Then they told everyone that the 2018 midterms were the last chance to stop the Dems before they ruined everything. And of course, they painted 2020 as, what do you know, the last chance to save the country from destruction by the Dems.

I’m honestly waiting for the moment when these guys stop doubling down on the same nonsense and admit that most of the country and the world does not support the agenda of angry Right Wingers.

I liked President Biden’s speech. I hope that Senators Manchin and Sinema did too. If we are going to do something on infrastructure, voting rights and gun control, it will be a Democrat-only show. The Repugs will offer nothing positive.

I can’t remember why, but I’m sure this is not the first time Ford has shown himself to be a two-faced traitor.

SO SAVE YOUR PRAISE FOR THE RIGHT FOR YOUR FRIENDS AND STOP ENABLING THE EXTREMISM AT YOUR NEW EMPLOYER!!!!!

To be clear, I agree Scott did a good job but Ford should know there’s nothing on Fox that is an honest discussion but EVERYTHING is about weaponizing the news.

Fox is slobbering over Tim Scott insisting US is not racist, the GA voting laws are pro voting and we need to come together (while knocking Biden and the left).

STUPID Harold Ford is agreeing.

Effing Harold Ford Jr. a Fox Democrat said he liked the speech but agreed with Brit that he was glad it was over.

Katie Pavlich whines that people were wearing masks “against CDC guidance.”

Chris Wallace says he thinks it’s going to be a popular speech. Hah!

What I heard was just what was needed.

Brit Hume bitching Biden didn’t credit Trump for progress on COVID. As if Trump ever credited Obama for anything.

Had a nap and thought I’d missed it completely. Joe is sounding old but great. The man exudes humanity and sincerity – how did we ever argue for any of the other candidates.

Brian Kilmeade called it “Rooseveltian in size and scope.” I’m going to change the channel to Fox now.

I thought it was a fine speech.

Biden enjoys saying, “Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President” for the first time.

I had to do a separate post about just the graphic describing the address as “propaganda on Cap Hill.” I’ll do a post tomorrow.

Tucker’s pre-address comments are making a martyr out of traitor Giuliani.