Posted on 12/21/2021 7:56:13 AM PST by rickmichaels
Joe Biden’s presidency is in trouble. This past weekend, it was abruptly torpedoed by Senator Joe Manchin – live on Fox News.
The U.S. President’s signature piece of legislation is – was – the so-called Build Back Better bill. It’s been pitched as the most ambitious overhaul of American social policy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society of the 1960s. The New Deal’s legacy is programs such as Social Security (more generous than the Canada Pension Plan, and created decades earlier); the Great Society’s legacies include Medicare and Medicaid – health insurance for the elderly and poor.
Build Back Better included an evolving list of promises, from clean energy to subsidized child care, free prekindergarten, free community college, a poverty-reducing child credit modelled on Canada’s, and expanded health coverage.
Mr. Biden’s Democratic Party has a slim majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate is split 50-50. To pass Build Back Better, Democrats can’t lose a single vote. For months, they’ve been fiddling with the bill, and whittling it down, in an attempt to woo Mr. Manchin, a Democrat from tiny, Republican-leaning West Virginia.
But on Sunday, the lawmaker popped up on TV to announce that, after all these months of his own party tying itself in knots trying to mollify, cajole or charm him into supporting at least some of Mr. Biden’s plan, he’s out. After months of saying he was on the fence but persuadable, he’s off the fence – with both feet on the other side.
It leaves the core of Mr. Biden’s agenda somewhere between limbo and non-existence. Which explains why, in response to being blindsided, the White House released a scathing and deeply personal statement, unprecedented in tone and directed at a fellow Democrat.
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The POTUS position has been empty since January 20 of this year. Xiden is merely a figurehead with a cabal of his handlers handling the details. Nothing much will change if the figurehead changes.
Yep too insane not to be contrived. Sometimes if things don’t seem real they aren’t. 🤔
Dump the Whore before 24! Great campaign slogan.
Yep - the think Pelosi.
She has the ambition and the power structure to move up.
But don’t put it past them to promote a top Senator for PR reasons.
A Cory Booker, Liz Warren… etc.
There isn’t going to be a midterm election because they know they can’t cheat enough to win.
They lost Texas and Florida in 2020 because they ran out of dead people and out-of-state voters to cast votes for.
It is far worse now. Even their rigged polls with 80% Democrats are showing Brandon with 33% support.
They don’t care that we know the election was stolen because they don’t plan on stealing any more elections.
They are preparing to stage terrorist attacks and blame them on Trump and General Flynn and then they will declare martial law and start killing people.
The problem with counting the Clintons out is that the Clintons still know where all the bodies are buried. They still have all those FBI files of dirt on both Democrats and Republicans and are fully willing to use them.
The public may not want them, and the party may not want them, but the Clintons don’t really care. If Hillary wants to run, she’ll use all her blackmail and call in all her owed favors to find some people to support her.
Well, if Joe just decides not to run again, then the Kamala problem is automatically solved. Joe only gets the courtesy of an unopposed nomination if he actually runs for reelection. If he doesn’t, then the field is open and Kamala isn’t guaranteed anything at all.
Her approval rating is in the high 20s. Everyone, including blacks know she is an embarrassment. There is no one less qualified to be president and I’m including you.
“Yep too insane not to be contrived”.
That’s a great way to put it.
“Dump the Whore before 24!”
Yep, that’s a winner!
Good post!
You’re right.
Both a couple of miserable failures in humble opinion, by a couple of fools who did a lousy job. Yeah, yeah, FDR ran the war, but that was a mess in a lot of things because of his lack of leadership. LBJ simply screwed up Vietnam and led to over 58,000 dead men and women.
Wouldn’t be surprised. If Klinton becomes VP, if I were Harris, I would hide in an unknown bunker somewhere in North Korea.
Yup, Harris is POTUS before the end of December.
They didn’t call it that, but this was the original Green New Deal so many laughed at when AOC first emitted it. One vote away.
We shall see.
I can see a new “variant” raging at large in the land, so that only mail-in balloting will be permitted. The democrats will have a miraculous rally and actually add to their majority in the house.
LOL! You ain’t lyin’.
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