(01-17-2019, 05:49 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-17-2019, 05:43 PM)mikesez Wrote: Could that be a false equivalence?  Did the Puerto Rico trip involve military transport?

Not really.

You refuse to see the childish behavior in Pelosi and focus solely on Trump, as if she has a valid reason to block Trump from doing the SOTU address.

Maybe Pelosi's behavior was childish. 

She claimed that coordinating the security was too big of an ask with many of the security staff going unpaid.  It's an interesting claim.  Might be true.  The shutdown has lasted 29 days.  Have the President, Vice President, and members of the Supreme Court tried to appear at Capitol Hill at the same time in the last 29 days?  If not, we can't really compare the claim to reality, can we?

On the other hand, Trump has claimed that having these types of meet and greets with troops stationed in combat zones is unbecoming during the shutdown.  Yet two such identical events occured without any comment about the appropriateness.  So that claim can be tested, and it is false.

That said, SOTU addresses are dumb. They are not important.

It's important for both Presidents and members of congress to see what it's like out near the front lines, though.

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