{"id":1331256,"date":"2022-02-23T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1331256"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:38:03","slug":"the-squad-also-plans-on-issuing-a-formal-response-to-bidens-sotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-squad-also-plans-on-issuing-a-formal-response-to-bidens-sotu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Squad\u201d Also Plans on Issuing a Formal Response to Biden\u2019s SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-squad-also-plans-on-issuing-a-formal-response-to-bidens-sotu%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1331256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/5e7c8120-be96-4f11-acd8-01cec4d446c0-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Suddenly, the normally vapid State of the Union event looks more promising. Joe Biden\u2019s complete sell-out to the progressive Left since his inauguration notwithstanding, Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) will deliver a \u201cformal\u00a0 response\u201d to the speech from her party\u2019s own president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/squad-member-to-deliver-response-to-biden-sotu-00010877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A member of the liberal \u201cSquad\u201d is delivering a formal response to President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union address Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the speech, given on behalf of the left-wing group Working Families Party, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is expected to hammer moderate Democrats who have stymied Biden\u2019s social spending and climate change package.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But just how much of a \u201cresponse\u201d will this be? The opposition party gets a formal response slot from media outlets in order to rebut presidential claims in the SOTU speech and offer their own agenda. This is clearly not a \u201cformal response\u201d in that same vein, but instead a separate media event tied to the SOTU spectacle for better visibility.\u00a0 Even so, the need for an informal \u201cformal response\u201d seems notable in at least a couple of different ways.<\/p>\n<p>First off, Tlaib\u2019s not planning to respond to Biden as much as she\u2019s planning to attack moderate Democrats for not capitulating to Biden:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tlaib will praise Biden\u2019s stimulus bill and make the case that liberals have pushed aggressively for his agenda, according to a summary of her remarks shared exclusively with POLITICO. She is also planning to argue that Republicans and a handful of intransigent Democrats have blocked progress on lowering the cost of housing, health care and prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s fine for Biden, who can use Tlaib as an attack dog while he offers soothing platitudes during the SOTU \u2014 assuming the White House thinks at all strategically. Evidence of such strategic thinking has been sorely lacking over the last thirteen months. However, if this\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a strategic plan that involves the White House, it means that Biden will use the SOTU to double down on <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/02\/21\/once-more-with-feeling-dems-deluding-themselves-into-irrelevancy-over-progressive-majority-myth-n450029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the delusion of the mythological \u201cemerging progressive majority\u201d in the US<\/a>. Biden\u2019s SOTU would then be a stay-the-course declaration rather than a reset back to the center, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/02\/22\/emerson-gop-now-get-a-majority-and-9-in-generic-congressional-ballot-n450261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a historic blunder in midterm electoral terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens to Tlaib\u2019s speech if Biden actually\u00a0<em>does<\/em> tack back to the center? That would force Tlaib to actually rebut Biden, perhaps rewriting the address in real time to attack senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema while tilting at White House windmills at the same time. That will certainly be worth the escalating price of popcorn, but even if Biden and Tlaib align, we\u2019ll need to start hoaring ahead of the SOTU:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The speech will put on display the deep rifts within the Democratic Party that have marked Biden\u2019s presidency. Months ahead of the daunting midterm election, many Democrats are looking to put aside those differences in order to present a united front against Republicans. But the left sees an opportunity in this year\u2019s primaries to elect a more liberal Democratic majority to Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If that\u2019s what the Left sees, then the Galston-Kamarck prediction of utter disaster in 2022 and 2024 elections will come true in blinding Technicolor. The progressive Left has a real opportunity to elect more progressive Democratic\u00a0<em>minorities<\/em> to both chambers of Congress in this election, and then to lose even more ground in the Senate in 2024 when Democrats have to defend more seats. That is the outcome of such purity campaigns, which have had a long tradition in both parties but in which Democrats seem to engage every 20-30 years in modern times: mid-1940s over Communism, 1968 and 1988 over the New Left, and now 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like popcorn\u2019s back on the menu. <em>Let us have it<\/em>!<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, the normally vapid State of the Union event looks more promising. Joe Biden\u2019s complete sell-out to the progressive Left since his inauguration notwithstanding, Squad member Rep. 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