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Sen. McConnell Will Keep His Seat for State of Union
- Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:15pm by
Scott Baker
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Don‘t look for the Senate’s Republican leader to take a different seat during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.
Democrats and Republicans usually sit with fellow members of their parties during the annual speech in the House chamber.
But with calls for more civility in Congress and less partisanship after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting, some lawmakers are pledging to break with tradition during President Barack Obama’s address this year.
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky tells “Fox News Sunday” that he’ll sit where he usually does for the speech. But McConnell says lawmakers who want to mix up the traditional party separation certainly can.
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Comments (96)
Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 2:00pmThank you, Senator McConnell…….!!!!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:47pmThe Libs are playing this brillantly. Now those who do not stand, sit appropriately will be judged accordingly to their NEW brand of civil politics. Disagree at your own peril by not standing or sitting appropriately and be singled out by name through the MSM as the Haters that they have always said we are. Brilliant! Watch the focus on this. It will be as I have described (repeated throughout MSM) and not so much Obamas message.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 5:53pmWon’t happen. The LSM is so discredited that anyone listening to them anymore is irrelevant.
The message has been heard and the red hot poker looms as an ever present reminder for those elected. They have an irrefutable mandate to put an end to the prigressive agenda. What they cannot unwind and reset they have been promised firther re-inforcement in 2012.
We have only begun the fumigation process. Make no mistake about that!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:43pmFor the last 2 years,the Democrattys had secret meetings,special deals and NOW they want to sit around the “campfire” showing BI-Partisonship? What a crock!!! Dick Durbin (IL) said on tv earlier he was bringing popcorn and cokes and share with a Republican….
Report Post »It’s a bogus kumbaya media moment….Is somebody bringing velcro so Pelooski doesn’t keep popping up and down from her chair??
Somehow alot of these folks have forgotten the November election
Brain scan machines set up at every entrance LOL
SheriS
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:52pmNancy isn‘t the Speaker any more so you won’t have to worry about her playing “jack in the box” or her stupid grin with her eyes popping out her head because her skin is streched so tightly! Thank you Lord for putting this woman back in the pack!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 2:39pmSheris—
Report Post »I know she isn’t speaker anymore but does she?
Heard her on tv the other “We Will BE Back”
Willing to bet the cameras will be zeroed in on her?
She loves that attention….Just saying.
SlippedThroughAWormHole
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:42pmDo ya think the Supreme Court Justices will show up for Bambi’s speech? I wouldn’t after what happened last year. I don’t know if I can watch the puppet show. I have puked so much over what is happening to the U.S. that now I have the dry heaves.
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:41pmWhat ever happened to the civility when Obama said the republicans could come along for the ride, but they would have to sit in the back? This could be defined better in the book by Lyle H. Rossiter M.D., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness”.He describes the liberals perfectly.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 2:24pmAlso good reading is MARK LEVIN’s.. .LIBERTY and TYRANNY
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:39pmObviously, history means something to this Senator! Mixing both sides proves absolutely nothing and history exists for a very good reason! To learn from the past which seems to eludes Progressives every day! Pesky Constitution is far more then an old piece of paper with words on it! Those words are our history and everyone needs to know every word of that history or YOU ARE DEEMED TO REPEAT THE SAME GARBAGE ALL OVER AGAIN! The last years under Obama are something I pray will never be repeated again as he ignores that “pesky piece of old paper” which is the most important document in our history! It tells all of us what to do!
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:36pmThe unbelivable hate and vitriole combined with lie after lie from the left makes this a no-brainer. It will make it easier to detect the establishment RINOS though.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:31pmCan we get Biden to sit in the restroom during the speech?
Report Post »grannydeb5
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:30pmI am going to watch the ones who sit with Dems and remember them in 2012 or whenever they come up for re-election. The dems have never tried to get along and have a reason for doing it now and it is not to get along. I’m not voting for people to get along I am voting for them to do the job we are sending them for and to uphold the Constitution and get these jerks out of office.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:28pmIf only the Republicans and the Democrats would have sat together all these years then Jared Loughner would have never gone crazy and shot a bunch of people.
Report Post »TRUSTNO MAN
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:27pmGod Love Ya, “Mike”!
Report Post »Echad
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:26pmWay to go Mitch!
Report Post »van
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:25pmI agree totally with his decision, I don‘t remember any real actions from the socialists in the White House or pelosi’s dems in the House to have a bi-partisan congress. But now that they are no longer in total control they are demanding bi-partisanship. Right! What a bunch of hypocrites.
Report Post »neverstoppers23
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:23pmLOL, then next we can all hold hands and sing‘ Give Peace A chance’
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:30pmNaw, “kumbaya” would better.
Report Post »Warm and fuzzy feeling….mmmm mmmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama
Fletch
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:22pmI would cast a vote against any tone deaf GOPer who signs up for dem date night
and stop sending $ to the GOP
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:28pmLOL! Date night! Perfect term! And now I’m just imagining how this metaphorical date night will end. It’s pretty obvious one is going to slip the other a mickey, politically speaking, of course…;-)
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:43pmHow….? Their DATE NIGHT will end in DATE RAPE……as usual when the democrat party tricks anyone to get in bed w them.
Report Post »bigbud
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:22pmI can’t help to wonder ,,, taht if the Demo’s had won in Nov. would they want to sit in any other way, than to show their dominance.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:33pmStop wondering ,had the democrats the majority ,they would have laughed in the republican’s faces if they would have suggested this.Then probably called a news conference(with the all to compliant left wing media) to chastise them for such a ridiculous idea.
Report Post »SlippedThroughAWormHole
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:35pmThey would flaunt their elitist attitude – they are legends in their own minds. Most people think they are out of their minds.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:22pmWhere’s the birth certificate?
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:21pmWhy do the republicans keep falling for the democratic traps ? How obvious is their intent ,yet here we are again with these dorks just blindly doing whatever the socialist set them up for. When it comes to politics{ not policy }the democrats are playing chess while the republicans play checkers.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:21pmAt least they will all get on TV now that they will be mixed.
Report Post »Outside Looking In
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:21pmWhere’s Admiral Akbar when we need him?
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:21pmCare!
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:21pmAs it should be.
Report Post »Tracking
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:21pmThere is a valid reason we have TWO Party’s. Stop the insanity. People are sick of it and we all know it is symbolic in nature. Means nothing. Perception is everything? In their minds perhaps.
Report Post »Fisrt they change what you say and how you say it. The words you can use. Now they want to change how we perceive things. RE-inventing the truth?
This country is in trouble in so many ways I can’t begin to understand or comprehend. No one in Washington has any courage, balls, integrity or common sense. It is all a game to them and we are the losing players.
HappyStretchedThin
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:20pmIt’s a glaring and obvious lack of civility to falsely offer your political opponents a seat next to you only so that when they refuse to fall for the trap you can say: “What you think you’re too good for us? How uncivil!”
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 4:24pmEspecially when they were the ones locking them out … before the last election!
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:19pmYes! Stand seperate and distinctly different.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 1:31pm…ah once again the Reps, show how very strong they are. This is so darn stupid. Dems, to Reps, “lets all just hold hands and sing: “I like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony”. This is dumb and dumber and to think the citizens actually voted these guys/gals in.
Report Post »darkloch
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 2:07pmi would not set with the democrates, it is just another trick to make the republican look as bad as they do. so during the next election the dems could say they were with us all along… so i will seat with like minded people.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 2:15pmLet them play musical chairs. Won’t that be civil? Seems to me the only ones talking crap are the Demos.
Report Post »markovet
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 2:30pmmcconnell’s a draft dodger. never had a real job in his life. and he should walk the walk on socialized medicine and pay for his own health care..seriously. this guy’s no leader.
grandmaof5
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 3:06pmI have a great idea: Republicans sit in their seats and, as a matter of civility, the democrats can fill in the empty seats on that side of the aisle. There, that should make everyone happy and civil.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 3:16pmSounds good to me.
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 3:53pmMaybe the true party members should not show up at all!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 4:23pmWell … that is ONE …. how about the rest of you .. any more BACKBONES out there?
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 5:21pmYes,by all means,we should all suck up to our oppressors .
Some of these morons still don’t get it.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 7:54pmA HIGH BULLET PROFF, ELECTRIFIED, SOUND PROFF WALL SHOULD BE ERECTED IN THE ISLE BETWEEN THE GOP AND BLOOD LIBELER SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
We do not want to hear anything the Blood Libelers say or do. They and their Chinese masters can go to Hell.
I hope this is taken as being un-Civil because that was the intent.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 7:58pmIN-CIVILITY IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY AND FREEDOM IS NO VICE.
We must show our in-civility to the Blood Libeler Democrats and their Chinese Masters who hate our nation and our people.
How more civil can a commenter be?
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 8:01pmAT THE CHINESE CHAIRMEN’s DINNER, IS WAS PROVEN THAT OUR BLOOD LIBEL DEMOCRATS ARE LAP DOGS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.
American TEA will never bow and kiss Obama’s ring so we can join our fellow Americans as chained slaves. How much did the Blood Libels pay the Chinese for the chains they expect us to put on.
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 8:50pmTo be honest, I don’t have a lot of confidence in King anymore, and now he’s going to sit by the Wiener? Must be something in that New York water.
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