How disconcerting. How angering. How disappointing.
During his first State of the Union address Tuesday, as President Joe Biden spoke about coffins, dead veterans and the passing of his son, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., found a way to lower America’s discourse, and sow the very division Biden spent much of his speech pushing against.
She heckled the president.
She bragged about her comment – a scream from the House floor – on Twitter: “When Biden said flag draped coffins I couldn’t stay silent. I told him directly he did it. He put 13 in there.” She’s referring to 13 service members who died as the United States was evacuating Americans and allies from Afghanistan last summer.
Four years of my life
In America, we welcome political disagreement. We’re working to protect Ukraine from Russian President Vladimir Putin, a man whose country jails protesters and poisons political dissidents. We stand united in our belief that Putin’s autocratic leadership is wrong. But there is also something wrong with reducing what should be thoughtful political discourse – done at the right time with real information – to a shameful and antagonizing heckle.
