A proposal by Senator Mark Udall, D-Colo., for bipartisan seating during the annual State of Union address is picking up support. The plan, that would sit Republicans, Democrats, and Independents should-to-shoulder during the President's address, is getting the thumbs up from both sides of the aisle and even right down the middle.
Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and a host of other Democratic and Republican Senators have signed on to the effort.
Several House members, including House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Texas, agree with the plan too, though McCarthy hasn't formally signed the letter.
In a long-standing tradition during the president's speech to the joint session of Congress, party lines are literally drawn right down the House Chamber's center aisle with Republicans sitting on one side of the speaker's podium and Democrats on the other. However, with no actual rules stipulating who sits where, it's completely up to members whether or not they integrate the two sides.
It's interesting how this silly idea (from a Democrat) comes after Obama's Party lost its majority. Viewers should see the gap between the two parties when one stands to applaud the Constitution and the other sits on its hands. State of the Unions, as Justice Scalia has noted, are pure political theatre, bordering on the utterly useless, but since Obama loves a good show, let's see his old guard diminished in stark terms. Dems on the left, GOP on the right.
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