This week, in a nationally televised event, President Barack Obama addressed children on the brink of adulthood, urging them to work hard, set goals, stay at it when things get tough, and assured them that one day they would be able to help solve the nation's challenges.
On the previous day, he gave a speech at Wakefield High School in suburban Virginia, which was televised to the nation's students.
Wakefield students were far more polite, respectful, and civilized in their treatment of the President of the United States than were many of the Republicans in his address to a Joint Session of Congress.
No student yelled at him, calling him a liar. Students didn't hold up signs and papers objecting to the points he was making. And none of the students booed him.
The same cannot be said of the Republicans posing as adults in the nation's capital.
Those Republicans chose to follow the lead of the sputtering ruffians who disrupted last month's town halls with angry threats and behavior that makes European soccer fans seem mild mannered. In the august setting of the United States Capitol, they showed the whole world their childishness (my apologies to actual children), their lack of ideas, and their refusal to work for solutions. They just don't know how to play nice.
The dwindling number of adults in the Republican Party can only hope that some day their colleagues will learn from the high school students, grow up, and at least act like they're civilized.
Maybe it's time for remedial kindergarten lessons for Republicans. Or take away their hall passes and send them to detention.
Originally posted at: HuffingtonPost.com/don-parker/
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5 months ago
The Grand Old Party is suffering mightily from the wackamos among them. Not all Republicans are fringe-y, but the fringeiest among them seem to be making a lot of noise! I am reminded, lately, of Mr. Agnew's complaint about nattering nabobs of negativity.
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