Tribune Content Agency Opinions

Mary Sanchez: Sen. Katie Britt is not ready for prime time – at least not yet

Britt asked us to peer into her life as a mother of two and a wife, who also happens to be among the youngest women serving in Congress. Unrolling her image as a“ just-like-you” persona to American women was the goal of her unfortunate GOP reply to President Joe Biden’ s State of the Union speech. The GOP hasn’ t errored in seeing Britt as a bridge to younger, female, suburban...

Let’s take a seat around the kitchen table of Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. After all, she just invited the nation to do so.

Britt asked us to peer into her life as a mother of two and a wife, who also happens to be among the youngest women serving in Congress.

Unrolling her image as a “just-like-you” persona to American women was the goal of her unfortunate GOP reply to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.

The bland beige kitchen setting, the ridiculous rise-and-fall cadence of her words and the wide-eyed stares into the camera have

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Tribune Content Agency Opinions

Tribune Content Agency Opinions3 min readCrime & Violence
Clarence Page: In The ‘Omnicause’, Colliding Causes Can Defeat Each Other’s Purposes
When does political protest seem to become an end in itself? Climate firebrand Greta Thunberg, 21, seems to raise that question when looking at photos of her arrest last month outside the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. Wearing a black-and
Tribune Content Agency Opinions3 min readAmerican Government
Jonah Goldberg: How Democrats’ Defense Of Biden Reminds Me Of Republicans’ Rallying Around Trump
The fallout from President Biden’s miserable debate last week is giving me deja vu. In the political right’s intramural arguments over Donald Trump, I got some things correct and some incorrect. But I believe I was indisputably right in one respect:
Tribune Content Agency Opinions3 min read
Cal Thomas: The Second Coming of the late ’70s?
The 1970s are remembered for many things: the end of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency, American hostages held for 444 days by Iran and disco (ugh). In 1978, Pope John Paul II became leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Related Books & Audiobooks