The problem always lies with the execution,though, and I think it was appropriate to point out that Congress just hasn't been getting done in the "making stuff work" department. The devil is in the details--literally. If Obama says he will rely more on executive orders, why, of course executive orders will only be seen as more "tyranny" (just like, I dunno, using his authority to appoint czars, judges, any other regular presidential power used historically before he came into office, which wasn't a big deal until now) by the sort of people who already think he's the Anti-Christ.
Rep. Steve Stockman walked out during it, he says. He's funny, isn't he? He could have taken his pants off and people would have been like, "Oh, Steve Stockman, you are a character." It really is no reflection on Obama for some people to, you know. Be themselves.
Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers passed, too. It was very easy for her not to lie, be batshit, or propose something goofy because she didn't really say anything at all. Her rebuttal was a little like "Story-time on the Couch with Cathy". And that's okay, and I don't think that having a ladyperson do the rebuttal (even a lady-person who has never voted in favor of a woman's reproductive rights) was condescending at all. Although I hear if this doesn't work for them, the GOP will have two ladypersons give the rebuttal in a kitchen! (Seriously--"The true state of the union lies in our hearts"? What is that? It would look nice on a needlepoint.)
I really didn't pay attention to Sen. Mike Lee, because really. Just. Really.
And finally, Sen. Rand Paul. I understand he read economics books for fun as a teen. He read all the wrong ones and didn't understand them. This is why he thinks the Fed somehow caused the recession. It's gonna be a long couple of decades before that kind of crackpottery is going to look cute and quaint on little old man Rand Paul, rather than eye-rollingly oblivious from a presidential hopeful.
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