The Disunited State of the Union

The Disunited State of the Union

. . . A good question is, Why are members of SCOTUS even expected to attend SotU addresses? The justices may very well be asked to pass judgement on the constitutionality of what the president and congress do. Should they be in attendance when those political plans are outlined? Should they be expected to acquiesce to that with which they disagree? Should they just stay home?

The president, the vice president, and, of course, congress en masse, will be in attendance but this year, in another unprecedented–and politically-inspired–move, Democrat Senator Mark Udall has proposed a SotU innovation: http://tiny.cc/2jttv

Rather than have congresspeople seated as usual in the House chamber helter skelter but according to political party, Udall has suggested that everyone be integrated into one, big, unified group, a proposal never brought to the fore when Democrats dominated both houses but which now strikes Democrat Udall as an outstanding change. The potential impact on the television audience of witnessing the loyal Republican opposition seated united in that opposition is an absolute irrelevancy to the senator.

In the wake of the president’s call for national healing and an end to divisiveness and vicious invective following the Tucson massacre, a plea that has yet to reach either the hearts or ears of his supporters, the idea of that demonstration of non-partisanship has attracted a number of Republicans such as Sen. John McCain who are forgetful that when they have reached across the aisle in the past to Democrats the Dems have devoured their arms up to the armpit.

However, things have changed and all is good now. Everything is beautiful and everyone is happy, joyful, and non-partisan–until a Republican president next delivers a State of the Union message or Democrats next control both houses of congress.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3432)