SCOTU, Brutè?

It's been a hectic couple of weeks in Curmudgeonland, but here's a quick (and overdue) post, to be followed by another one later tonight (hopefully).

Okay, so last Tuesday's Presidential address to a joint session of Congress wasn't officially a State of the Union (SOTU) address.  But the play on words in the title is clever, no?

I mean, you had the right setting and cast of characters:  the Senators in their chamber, daggers at the ready, eyes on the back of the emperor.

I predicted last Monday that Facebook would implode on Wednesday with the hysterics from the left.  But a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum.

The President sounded Presidential.  He hit the right marks, made the right points.  He cited the campaign promises he's already delivered on, and talked about more that are on the agenda.  True, some of those things are adamantly opposed by the left.  But there was something for pretty much everyone.  And even though the Pelosis and Wasserman-Schultzes and Schumers of the world had sworn to sit on their hands the entire evening, there were a few brave Dems who actually stood and clapped at times, and not just when Trump was honoring a fallen Navy Seal's widow.

Of course, those Dems were probably from red states and facing mid-term challenges, so they may have just been pandering to their constituents, while the hand-sitters are from comfortably blue districts.

A slight detour here, on the topic of the Seal's widow.  A couple of days after the address, the left began accusing Trump of "exploiting" her.  Yeah, she sure looked like she was being exploited.  Actually, she looked more like she was appreciative of the honor and the recognition of her husband's sacrifice.  How conveniently the left forgets the soldiers and their widows, the victims of crime, the refugees that Presidents (including their revered President Obama) have paraded in front of the cameras at every SOTU since TV was invented.

In any event, there was little cause for Facebook to blow up, because the speech was a success, and gave the left little to be inflamed about.  I needn't recount the positive points, because they've gone uncontested.

However, the content and tenor of the address were not the best thing about it.  And what, you may ask, was?

Simple: Hillary Clinton didn't deliver it.