I'll let Mike Lee and Rand Paul respond to Obama's nonsense

I can't say it better than Kevin Williamson said it via National Review yesterday. It's not so much that Obama's speech was bad or that his proposed policies were unwise. It's that this whole offering of political theater is obscene and not even worthy of our attention anymore.

A little taste of Williamson:

The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement and piteous toadying, a black Mass during which every unholy order of teacup totalitarian and cringing courtier gathers under the towering dome of a faux-Roman temple to listen to a speech with no content given by a man with no content, to rise and to be seated as is called for by the order of worship — it is a wonder they have not started genuflecting — with one wretched representative of their number squirreled away in some well-upholstered Washington hidey-hole in order to preserve the illusion that those gathered constitute a special class of humanity without whom we could not live. It’s the most nauseating display in American public life — and I write that as someone who has just returned from a pornographers’ convention.

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The whole thing is absolutely fantastic. Mike Lee gave the response from the Tea Party Express last night, and it's a good use of 11 minutes:

Rand Paul, as is his wont, gave his own response on behalf of Rand Paul. It's worth watching too:

We'll take a look later today at the "official" Republican response from Cathy McMorris Rodgers, mainly because it's worthwhile to examine what the GOP thought was the most effective way to respond. Me? I'll be honest. I did not watch the speech. I'll be reviewing it throughout the course of the morning. Last night I watched Game 5 of the championship series of Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Professional. Navegantes del Magallanes came into the game leading the series 3 games to 1 and needing one more win to take the title. Caribes de Anzoátegui narrowly escaped elimination via sweep on Sunday night when they scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 10th to win 5-3 and survive for another day. In Tuesday's Game 5, the Caribes led 6-5 in the top of the eighth when the Navegantes loaded the bases with one out. A pop-up later it looked like the Caribes might get out of the jam, but a hit-batsmen tied the game, then a ground ball to short by San Francisco Giants star Pablo Sandoval - which should have ended the inning - turned into two runs when the throw sailed wide of first base. That made it 8-6 Navegantes, and the next hitter, Ramon Hernandez, crushed a three-run homer to give the Navegantes a commanding 11-6 lead That was the final score, and the good folks of Magallanes exploded with joy as the Navegantes wrapped up the title. Their season isn't over, though. They will now move on to the Carribean Series against the champions of the winter leagues from Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. So: What were we talking about? Obama? Some speech? Oh. Right. I respect my time too much to use it on nonsense.