From Roger Simon:
Let's give them the award straight up: Worst Performance by a Minority Party at a State of the Union Address. (Hey, it's awards season, right?) They broke the record. They get the prize with no runner-up for years to come.
Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi watching Trump's speech looked like a pair of sullen six-year olds on a sugar crash the day after Halloween. Bernie Sanders looked mummified. Schumer was slumped so deeply in his chair he was almost falling through the crack.
Other Democrats, even ones who should have known better or secretly felt otherwise, sat on their hands. You could see them glancing at each other, wondering whether they were allowed to applaud or stand up.
What a bunch of cowards.
Who are these ungrateful corpses, middle America must have been asking. Good question. (Can you imagine how much money Pelosi has made in the stock market since Trump was elected? What does she have to be so upset about?)
More jobs? No applause. Higher wages? No applause. Lowest black unemployment in history? Crickets. ISIS disappearing? Zzzz...
What's wrong with these people? Don't they know nobody loves a sorehead? You think Colin Kaepernick could be elected president?
And why were they so depressed, you may ask? Easy. Here's what they knew and what we all know. Trump is here to stay -- for the next seven years. And they're going to have to live with it.
Reason: Trump is an upper, like Reagan and JFK. All three were cheerleaders for America and made/make us feel good. That's what wins.
And why shouldn't it? Optimism and pessimism are largely self-fulfilling prophecies. For today's Democrats, it's "Unhappy Days Are Here Again!"
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