What Went Down At Biden’s State Of The Union And Texas’s Primary Election

Julia, it’s certainly helpful for us as observers. But I wonder if it’ll just be too easy for writeups on the State of the Union to mention the multiple Democratic responses as evidence that the party is in a particularly high state of disarray, even if that’s not the case.

Now that the State of the Union is over, the rebuttals can begin. Earlier tonight, I wrote a defense of the many rebuttals that’ll now happen. The president can lay out an ambitious agenda. But it needs Congress to pass. Seeing how others, including fellow Democrats, across the ideological spectrum respond to the president gives us a better sense of what the legislative agenda might actually look like.

You might have noticed that Sen. Joe Manchin sat on the Republican side of the aisle at the State of the Union. His spokeswoman tells ABC News, “Senator Manchin sat with his colleague Senator Romney to remind the American people and the world that bipartisanship works and is alive and well in the U.S. Senate.” Reader, bipartisanship is not alive and well in the U.S. Senate.