'What a piece of work': Marjorie Greene's 'childish' SOTU response trashed by Senate Dems
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans' cold, rude and, at times, antagonistic reactions to Thursday night’s State of the Union address has one of President Joe Biden’s closest allies missing Richard Nixon.
If you thought the bar couldn’t get any lower for American politicians, think again. Watergate now seems to be the high water mark for American politics.
“We're not perfect by any stretch on our side, but what's happened, especially with Trump, is very, very sad,” Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) told Raw Story as he walked through the Capitol after the president’s address. “I'm thinking of Republican presidents that I've known — Richard Nixon, both presidents Bush, [Republican presidential nominee] John McCain — those guys must be spinning in their graves.”
Living Republicans were left spinning too.
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“My head got to hurting,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story after the president wrapped his speech.
“You guys didn’t even stand up at all,” Raw Story asked of Biden’s calls to increase teacher pay, defend democracy, and protect American allies. “None of that was worth it?”
“No,” Tuberville replied. “Hell no.”
“No?”
“Optics,” Tuberville said.
Even Republicans who admitted they couldn’t hear the address well were unapologetic for barely rising out of their seats to applaud Biden when he touted the job growth that had taken place during his administration.
“There was nothing to stand for?” Raw Story asked after the address. “Nothing to clap for in there?”
“I stood for Israel,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) replied to Raw Story.
“What about America?”
“Honestly, most of it I couldn't understand. I don't hear well anyway and he was mumbling and then yelling and I kind of gave up,” Ernst — chair of the Republican Policy Committee in the Senate — said.
Ernst wasn’t alone in not being able to hear what the president said clearly — but then dumping on him anyway.
“I'm gonna have to go home to read it, because I couldn't understand what he was saying most of the time,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told Raw Story after leaving Thursday night’s prime time speech. “I think he was trying so hard to sound strong that he sounded angry. It came across as anger.”
Some Democrats also couldn’t make out the whole speech.
“I got most of it, I think,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told Raw Story.
Turning back to the GOP reaction, other Democratic senators ripped the GOP's reaction and compared them to petulant toddlers.
“It’s childish,” former Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) told Raw Story as he walked through the Capitol Rotunda Thursday eve. “You’ve got to realize that the rest of the world looks at us as the leader — a free nation — and if instead they see a grade school assembly, there’s our soul.”
Sen. Carper singled out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as particularly bothersome.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a piece of work,” Carper said of the Georgia Republican. “In the end that kind of behavior is self-defeating, and it maybe makes the perpetrator of that behavior feel better for a while, but I don't think it earns outside respect. I was raised to treat other people the way I wanted to be treated, with respect.”
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