Posted on 02/08/2023 7:35:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Republicans are quick to suggest that President Joe Biden has lost a step — but he proved nimble enough Tuesday night to box them in on Social Security and Medicare. And he did it, in part, by going off script.
Nearly halfway through his State of the Union address, Biden said that "some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years" and that others would like to use the possibility of defaulting on federal debt as leverage to cut those programs.
Republicans jeered. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a newly empowered voice in her party, yelled, "Liar!"
At first, Biden offered to provide documentation. Then, he simply accepted the response as on-the-spot agreement from the GOP to keep the programs intact.
"As we all apparently agree," he said, departing from his prepared remarks and grinning like a cat with a canary feather stuck in his teeth, "Social Security and Medicare is off the books now."
There's a duality to what sounded like a snap policy victory for Biden: To whatever extent he protected the entitlement programs, he also made it harder to campaign on the idea that Republicans are bent on destroying them. But perhaps more important, as he gears up to run for re-election, Biden demonstrated the mental dexterity that critics — and, in private moments, even some allies — say he lacks.
For Democrats, there was a certain pleasure in seeing Biden dance around the ring.
"Did @potus just bait-and-switch the GOP into agreeing to protect Medicare and Social Security on live national TV?!" former Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va., wrote on Twitter.
That's exactly what he did.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
NBC is beyond delusional at this point.
Joe Biden is a disgusting chomo.
Pathetically delusional...
I just threw up in my mouth a little...
Anyone who supports or defends this demon supports and defends chomos. To hell with them.
Jonathan Allen?? Isn’t this the same guy who admitted when GWB was in office that the media makes up stories?? And here he is- proving it further
Hey! He recognizes we’ll need petroleum for sure for 9 years and 364 days.
If you forget what biden has done the last several years..and why not biden has ..his speech was the basic SOU speech.
“Make no mistake! If you try anything to raise the cost of frisizhnjubs I will veto it.”
Joe Biden, February 7, 2023
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1623191683599835136
No joke!
Great article. Just wanted to correct something in the link. NBC is Comcast, ABC is Disney.😀
LOL! Wow! What a total clown show!
Wow!! So many moronic attempts at thinking at NBC. How do they manage to find and hire SO MANY idiots?!!!
Need more coffee … ☕️
BTW when I say great article, let me add great that you posted it but I agree with everyone, NBC IS delusional.
Facts are the audience for the Biden “State Of the Union” was nothing to brag about. Less then ten percent of Americans tuned in.
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