Pelosi wants just 50 House members to
attend Biden's State of the Union over
Omicron fears despite fact strain is mild
and 200 attended last year
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Nikki Schwab
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/1/2022 10:27:47 PM
Only 50 House members may get to attend President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address as the Omicron surge has resulted in 24 lawmakers getting COVID in one month. On Tuesday, Axios reported that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told colleagues that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned him that she may limit the number of attendees from the House to 25 members per party. Biden will deliver his State of the Union address on March 1. (Photos) McCarthy told Republican leadership about Pelosi's plans - and they were frustrated by them. McCarthy pointed out that Democrats fly on airplanes with more people than who will be
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/1/2022 10:30:56 PM (No. 1058464)
I suggest that ZERO Republicans attend the drool fest. Hold the line and show no respect to the commander in thief.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/1/2022 10:34:48 PM (No. 1058467)
It’s just one charade after another.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/1/2022 10:47:12 PM (No. 1058479)
1st response should be immediate...100% attendance or zero.
Let HIM do it from his custom built taxpayer funded studio set. NOT the "Hallowed Historic Halls" of the Congress.
Slight adjustment...NO Concresscritter that has VOTED by proxy will be allowed to attend no matter what.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 2/1/2022 10:54:26 PM (No. 1058483)
Might be hard to find 50 sane people who want to go.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 2/1/2022 11:07:30 PM (No. 1058491)
I'm sure all of the Republicans would love to have that night off -- rather than waste all that time listening to a doddering old senile man mess up the speech his handlers will be writing for him!!!
Maybe President Trump can have a rally that night, and they can all go attend that. It will certainly be a lot more fun!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 2/1/2022 11:11:37 PM (No. 1058493)
Oh, wait, I finally got it. She was only able to find 25 lie-beral Demon-Rats from "safe" districts that aren't up for re-election in November.
This way, all the Demon-Rats running in the fall don't have to be seen with Senile Joe biden. They are going to do everything they can to keep biden away from all of the "at risk" Demon-Rats -- which may be all of them given how terrible biden and the Demon-Rats are destroying this republic!!!
I'm guessing it will be pretty funny over on the Republican side finding out which 25 have to attend this snooze-fest!!! It would suck to draw that short straw!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
formerNYer 2/1/2022 11:20:06 PM (No. 1058501)
All or nothing at all Republicans.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/1/2022 11:22:56 PM (No. 1058503)
Biden’s handlers and Pelosi probably are afraid that Biden will catch COVID if some wimpy Republican congressperson coughs near him. I agree with other posters that the wimpy Republicans should stay away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 2/1/2022 11:27:14 PM (No. 1058507)
But if everyone is fully vaccinated, shouldn't they be safe??
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 2/1/2022 11:39:38 PM (No. 1058517)
Who wants to watch...unless you make it a drinking game.
Will Biden walk thru the crowd or will he come in a different door without any people nearby?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/1/2022 11:56:37 PM (No. 1058521)
"Ladies and Gentlemen.....uh...um...oh,... thank you and good night". There...I saved you all the trouble.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/2/2022 12:28:58 AM (No. 1058532)
No doubt Biden will falsely claim in his State of the Union speech that he has created more U.S. jobs then any past US President. The reason that Biden claim is false is that the vast majority of those US jobs were were created before the COVID pandemic hit, and over the last few months are being refilled, most times by the same people who held those jobs before the pandemic started.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
danu 2/2/2022 3:09:22 AM (No. 1058578)
Would these be the 50 or so who dared not to laugh at Mdme. Lucifer's maniacal , madly incompetent, > ahem< eyebrow job?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/2/2022 3:14:47 AM (No. 1058581)
if I were a repub member of the House, I wouldn't attend on principle alone.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/2/2022 3:16:15 AM (No. 1058582)
They should draw straws to see who gets to stay home. The odds are pretty good.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/2/2022 4:40:48 AM (No. 1058604)
It's absolutely staggering how much of a useless hypocrite Botox Nancy is.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/2/2022 5:59:49 AM (No. 1058642)
I would not bother to come, if invited, to hear one lie after another. We all know the Union is in a really sorry state since November of 2020.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
downnout 2/2/2022 6:42:14 AM (No. 1058669)
More theatrics from America’s finest director of mayhem and chaos.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/2/2022 7:11:44 AM (No. 1058697)
No one wants to hear the Moron.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/2/2022 7:13:54 AM (No. 1058699)
Madame Botox would be lucky if she could find 50 clowns who wanted to attend this bit of really bad kabuki theater. I predict ratings will be lower than Creepy Joe’s basement.
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Less people makes it easier to hide his handlers and handling equipment.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 2/2/2022 8:10:21 AM (No. 1058747)
Who would want to be one of the unlucky fifty? The best thing Pelosi ever promised.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/2/2022 8:25:49 AM (No. 1058770)
The Republicans should show up in mass for this to boo every line. Force Pelosi to let them stay or have cancel this nationally televised event at the very last minute. McCarthy should have them all show up and March into the chamber and sit. Make the Sergeant of Arms have to physically remove them.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kafka2 2/2/2022 8:50:18 AM (No. 1058797)
Reply 1: I suspect that Republicans will have no choice in the matter. Pelosi is probably planning to only allow radical Progressives to attend to give the impression that the House backs Biden 100%. The only exception might be to include a rabid RINO like Liz Cheney.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Phantomll 2/2/2022 8:51:57 AM (No. 1058800)
Hey Nanzi - 80,000 - 90,000 screaming fans attend football games with no problem.
I agree that Republicans should boycott or bring copes of FJB's speech and tear it up when he's finished reading what's on his teleprompter.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/2/2022 8:52:05 AM (No. 1058801)
What if they gave a SOTU address and nobody came? Better still, why not mock up that studio set across the street from the White House and make it look like the U.S. House chamber? Put in a full House background of cardboard cutout figures, Sgt. Pepper's style, and do the address incognito under a stage name, in aviator shades, taking frequent licks from a cone of chocolate ice cream. Go all the way. (Ron Klain was once Al Gore's mini-me; he might be amenable to some overt display of tomfoolery by the pResident.) "Billy Shears." Go for it! If you're going to go down, go down proudly. Spread you arms wide in a Birdman pose and fall like a lotus blossom.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
edgar 2/2/2022 9:06:54 AM (No. 1058816)
Hide the decline! Of Joe Biden.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 2/2/2022 9:07:24 AM (No. 1058819)
Strange way to start the new season of The Walking Dead.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/2/2022 9:16:22 AM (No. 1058827)
I'll be surprised if it actually happens. Maybe Dems will pull the old 'broken water pipe' trick and say the Capitol must be evacuated, like they do on election night.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/2/2022 9:23:27 AM (No. 1058832)
Since no one will want to be seen in the same room with TaliBiden, she is trying to make a virtue out of a necessity.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/2/2022 9:28:43 AM (No. 1058838)
If you don't want to watch, I found a summary:
The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a huge success.
We have the greatest economy since the '49 Gold Rush.
More people are working in America now than when the Egyptians built the Pyramids.
I made Vladimir Putin cry when I shook his hand.
Thank you all, good night.
(Jill, can I go out for ice cream now?)
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
petrichor 2/2/2022 9:30:51 AM (No. 1058842)
I think it would be a great visual for all of the Repub members to attend while the Dem side was shown withering.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
franq 2/2/2022 9:50:32 AM (No. 1058871)
The woman is insane.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/2/2022 9:57:41 AM (No. 1058880)
Pelosi!! And we thought Herod Antipas was bad?
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So, if Pelosi gets her way on this, then she should only allow democrats into the venue. Let the Republicans avoid this, and make sure the public knows what is going on. They do not want any member of congress seeing for themselves what a potato head Biden is.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/2/2022 10:27:17 AM (No. 1058909)
She doesn't want anyone holding up F Joe Biden signs.
Only hardcore lefties will be invited.
Pelosi is a power monger.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
FLCracker 2/2/2022 10:38:11 AM (No. 1058925)
I suspect that is 25 members per party, plus one. Unless Bernie counts as a Dem.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
hershey 2/2/2022 10:41:28 AM (No. 1058927)
She might have a problem finding even 50 who want to attend...
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/2/2022 10:51:01 AM (No. 1058937)
I agree with the poster that said...no republicans should attend...let the biden/lobby of corrupt politicians show the "bringing together" this jerk bragged about..of course cheny and romney and the crying Illinois loser will go...no matter what...even though this is their last term....but it's time to call out the ruling elite for who they are...dictators!!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
marbles 2/2/2022 11:17:49 AM (No. 1058958)
Fiction to spoken start to finish. And nancy smirking behind joey.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/2/2022 11:20:19 AM (No. 1058964)
It is time to move on from the Chinavirus. Listen to the Canadian Truckers.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/2/2022 11:23:03 AM (No. 1058972)
Didn't she try to keep Trump from delivering HIS SOTU? Refuse to give him a date, kept delaying it, Had all of the dems sit on their hands, no applauding...then tore Up the "Historic Document" itself when it was handed to her as the Constitution required it to be?
Didn't she and all of the female dems wear white Klan robes to it? All seated together..and have protestors allowed into the building wearing RED Klan robes?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
mizzmac 2/2/2022 11:28:23 AM (No. 1058987)
The fewer people to witness that the emperor has no clothes the better?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/2/2022 11:30:58 AM (No. 1058997)
Hand selected. No booing allowed.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 2/2/2022 11:57:08 AM (No. 1059060)
The streets around the building it's in should be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of screaming, angry citizens.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/2/2022 1:12:32 PM (No. 1059154)
The Dems want to show Doddering Diapers speaking to an empty chamber? That will really make him look like a leader.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/2/2022 1:30:55 PM (No. 1059167)
Not attending displays lack of respect for the Congressional offices they hold. Many of their constituents will look to see if their representative is present. If half or two-thirds of the dems' seats are empty, all the more reason for the Republicans to fill their seats. The contrast will be striking.
Self-respecting political office holders should show respect for the Office of President of the United States, while respectfully tearing into the doddering old fool who occupies it by reason of voter fraud.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/2/2022 1:45:45 PM (No. 1059186)
WHich 50 will attend? Will they need to be "approved" by Pelosi like the members of the 01/06 Committee members? If Nancy does not like the Republican members chosen to attend will she tell them no and select her own Republican choices? Liz Cheney, Adam Kinszinger, and all of the 01/06 Democrats will be there for sure if Nancy has her way.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Penney 2/2/2022 2:36:37 PM (No. 1059242)
Pelosi's in crowd of 50 is the cream of the OUT crowd with America!
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What happens they are assigned but then have a "scheduling conflict?"
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Sanddollar 2/2/2022 5:35:46 PM (No. 1059406)
Does any House member really want to attend the State of the Union address? They are so boring.
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This should be rich, advertising (or more realistically) drafting suckers for the Peanut Gallery.
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