The republican response was terrible

[madaboutharry]

I can't believe this lady is a member of congress. I'm embarrassed for America.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. hey- Norah O'Donnell says "she is a rising star in the party"

...there is nothing to say in response to that, really!

[Gemini Cat]

4. More like rising bile in the collective throat of America.

[Scootaloo]

5. Well, one must assume very low horizons, when speaking of Republicans

[avebury]

6. Considering that fact that they are already in the cellar,

they have no where to go but even (even if it is a smidgen).

[Cha]

24. I'll just bet she is.. they pick all their "rising stars" to give the

SOTU reponse. Let's see there was bobby jindal, marco rubio, cathy mcmorris, and who else was rising and sank after their star status kinda bombed? Bachmann?

[all american girl]

2. She said nothing....it seems like she was introducing herself to us, no ideas...so sad.

Can't spell....oops

[struggle4progress]

3. It was pretty sad, but it didn't require her to actually have any facts on the tip of her tongue,

which may have been an important consideration

[Heather MC]

7. Sorry I bailed when she said her mother told her to save for college as a little girl and she did

Ok yah you!

I figured she was about to whip out some boot straps

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. I always hate that bootstraps shit.

My father picked himself up by his bootstraps. Not.

He was in the Air Force during Korea and had the G.I. bill to help him in college later on. Before that he was dirt poor, but like a lot of American like him he wasn't kicked to the curb by heartless GOPigs spouting bullshit and offshoring every job they can.

He probably wouldn't have made it as far today as he had in the 50s-60s.

Our leaders don't really give a shit about us.


So fuck the bootstrap analogy.

[Heather MC]

18. It irks me too because,

no one makes one red cent without the benefit of somebody else.

This woman may have saved her money but she had to get that money from somewhere. someone had to educate her, a college had to exist for her to go too. No body does it alone. And repugs destroy our society trying to act like we should have this all by myself belief

[ChangeUp106]

8. The ONLY thing she proposed in that speech

was a prayer. Not even tax cuts.

[malaise]

9. And then some

[kwolf68]

10. Another rising star

Trouble is the message is still the same anti-government cliches' and platitudes, complete with bullish bravado that comes off as nothing more than style over substance. Toss in a heavy nod toward theocracy meeting corporate libertarianism and tell me just how original is this? Same shit, different day. If she fails, they'll just find a new face and trot out the same ideas.

We see what an impotent government gets you...FUCKING POLLUTED water you goddamn ass.

[stevenleser]

11. As some others have said, she made Marco McGulp Rubio look good. nt

[Cha]

25. Oh dear.. was it the stepfordness?

I didn't see it.. just guessing from reviews I read.

[stevenleser]

29. It did not come off as genuine, it was boring, and it had nothing close to a specific policy idea

It would have been better to not give a response at all.

[pscot]

12. She's been heavily programmed

There's dark money behind her. Or so it's said. The Manchurian Congresswoman from the Palouse.

[caraher]

13. "Rising star" Repubs seem to have a habit of imploding doing the SOTU response

Remember when Bobby Jindal was a rising star? How about Rubio? Both of them embarrassed themselves pretty badly responding to Obama speeches, and not just in the eyes of us Democrats. I didn't watch tonight's reply but it sounds like she is definitely in the "memorably bad" category.

[Cha]

26. It's like a

curse. Next please.

[caraher]

30. Or... "Please proceed..." :) <nt>

[longship]

14. And the couch she sat on reminded me of this!

Bad taste!

[H2O Man]

15. Way beyond terrible.

Who wrote that speech? They should be fired. (And I assume she wrote it herself.)

[HangOnKids]

19. Filth. Terrible trash dribbling from her mouth. Why the fuck does this shit get TV time?

It is 2014, really this shit stain gets to crap on national airwaves in prime time? Holy fuck we are in real trouble.

[ChangeUp106]

17. The other 3 didn't make TV

I even switched to FOX. No Rand Paul. No Mike Lee. No Spanish version of the response (of course, it's FOX).

[sheshe2]

20. She spoke like a Stepford wife. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. She's new reading from a teleprompter.

[Cha]

27. LOL, she.. I swear I didn't read your reply first..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4407226

[ReRe]

21. Which one?

Oh, "the lady". Of course their response(s) were terrible. They're brain dead, madaboutharry.

[B Calm]

23. but she worked at McDonald's and it paid for her college education.

Bullshit!

[nyquil_man]

28. She came across as overcoached.

I could almost see someone off camera gesturing for her to smile.