Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion Don’t go in the kitchen. I’m delivering a State of the Union response.

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March 8, 2024 at 2:38 p.m. EST
Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) responds to Biden's State of the Union address. (Washington Post staff/TWP)
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SWEETIE, please DON’T go in the KITCHEN. I am delivering my State of the Union response!

Fellow MOMS, if you are like me, you lie awake at 2 a.m., wondering how you can BE in three places at once: this KITCHEN, the Senate and the opening monologue of a Purge movie. But you see, we CAN do it, by WHISPERING slowly with an intensity usually reserved for WASP moms trying to prevent their daughters from making a SCENE in the J. Crew fitting rooms. (We’re not LEAVING yet PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER.) I am delivering these remarks in a WAY that makes you think this isn’t ACTUALLY my kitchen and I’m not SUPPOSED to BE here, but no one has dared REMOVE me because I am SPEAKING in a TONE that makes the PROSPECT of interrupting me TOO FRIGHTENING!