The Hill News

Symbols do matter. Appearances do matter. TV visuals certainly do matter.

Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) is urging his colleagues to sign a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate calling for members to sit together, not divided by party, for this year’s State of the Union speech.
 
More and more, these spectacles of one party sitting, one party clapping; one party cheering, the other stone-silent; one party rising for a standing ovation, the other anchored to their seats, have not exactly been “sitting” well with the American people.
 
The message being sent is one of paralysis, incivility, gridlock. And, most of all, anger.

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