Although the speaker of the House is of a different political party than the president, thereās been little concern about the speaker tearing up a copy of the President Joe Bidenās Tuesday State of the Union address.
Thatās been done before, of course, in Nancy Pelosiās reaction to the 2020 SOTU address by President Donald Trump.
Speaker Pelosiās public display of disgust was actually a vulgar expression of disrespect toward the office of the president, the House over which she was speaker and the American people.
Nobody expects the new Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy, to do that.
But Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois is expressing dissent in somewhat of a private way, according to a report by Breitbart.
She said she was just not going to show up for the State of the Union address.
That spares her from the embarrassing spectacle of watching Democrats continually applauding and giving standing ovations of affirmation to specific statements by Biden while Republican sit on their hands.
Of course, thatās all political theater, and itās how SOTU sessions are conducted ā cheer on your guy when you agree, sulk when you donāt.
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But, according to Miller, the real reason for her absences is because Biden continually lies.
āI will not be attending. I do not plan to show up to and listen to him continue to lie,ā she said.
āIām not going to sit there and listen to him lie and then watch the media and other members of Congress applaud him his lies,ā Miller said.
And in listing Bidenās lies, she was very specific.
āWhether itās the border, claiming that our border is secure while we are being invaded. We ā by the time his presidency is over, we could have 12 to 14 million terrorists, fentanyl dealers, child traffickers and an entire welfare state entering our country,ā according to Miller.
āHeās lied about our energy prices, saying he supports gas and energy when on day one he canceled the Keystone Pipeline, and his EPA is targeting American energy producers. I mean, I could go on and on with his lies.ā
Miller is in her second term representing Illinois House District 15, a traditionally Republican district in the stateās center.
On Twitter, where she regularly posts Scripture quotations, Miller describes herself as a āmother of seven, grandmother of 19ā and a farmer standing for āFamily, Faith, & Freedom.ā
And Biden? American Enterprise Institute Fellow Marc Thiessen recently compiled Bidenās lies in an op-ed in, of all places, The Washington Post.
In summary, Thiessen said Biden falsely
Represented events in the life story of a British politician as his own
Claimed to be the first in his family to go to college
Said he had three college degrees
Claimed to have received an outstanding student award
Said he finished in the top half of his law school class
Claimed to have written numerous law school articles on the right to privacy
Reported numerous arrests for standing up for the right thing, including Civil Rights, and for sneaking into a womenās dormitory in college and sneaking into the U.S. Capitol
Said he was arrested in South Africa for trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison
Claimed to have been in serious danger in war zones
Said he met with Communist China leader Deng Xiaoping, resulting in China joining the 2016 Paris climate accord ā even though Deng died in 1997
Claimed 17,000 miles of travel with Chinaās president, Xi Jinping
Said he passed student loan forgiveness, although Congress never approved it
Claimed he substantially cut the federal debt and that real incomes have increased.
Here at the Western Journal, weāve also noted Bidenās tendency to lie. About his beloved Amtrak, for instance. And his administrationās terrible policies on energy. Or how many times heās been to international hot spots.
Whatās more, legacy media just goes along with the falsehoods.
With that kind of record on the part of Biden, is it any wonder why Rep. Miller decided to stay home? And lest her tickets to the event go to waste, sheās giving them to a colonel who had to retire to avoid taking the COVID vaccine.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.