President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Was there any scenario in which the GOP candidate(s) was NOT going to rail against the media?

 

"You only cover us when we bail on our state during an emergency and leave our poor dog behind."

 

... named Snowflake, naturally. How appropriate ...

 

The dog should be taken away. They've forfeited the privilege to own one.

 

Why can you fly a helicopter on Mars, but can't turn on a light in Texas?

Scientists are in charge of Mars. Republicans are in charge of Texas.

 

And they're canceling members of their own klan on a weekly basis for the crime of voting against their lord and savior.

 

did someone say

T H E

M E D I A

 

“And I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling voters!”

 

I WoN By A LoT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donald Trump: I miss being president

 

Cry more, Republican’ts. The Era of Getting Shit Done has arrived.

WASHINGTON — Republicans are struggling to persuade voters to oppose President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, which enjoys strong, bipartisan support nationwide even as it is moving through Congress with just Democratic backing.

Democrats who control the House are preparing to approve the package by the end of next week, with the Senate aiming to soon follow with its own party-line vote before unemployment benefits are set to lapse in mid-March. On Friday, the House Budget Committee unveiled the nearly 600-page text for the proposal, which includes billions of dollars for unemployment benefits, small businesses and stimulus checks.

Republican leaders, searching for a way to derail the proposal, on Friday led a final attempt to tarnish the package, labeling it a “payoff to progressives.” The bill, they said, spends too much and includes a liberal wish list of programs like aid to state and local governments — which they call a “blue state bailout,” though many states facing shortfalls are controlled by Republicans — and increased benefits for the unemployed, which they argued would discourage people from looking for work.

Those attacks have followed weeks of varying Republican objections to the package, including warnings that it would do little to help the economy recover and grow, that it would add to the federal budget deficit and possibly unleash faster inflation, and that Democrats were violating Mr. Biden’s calls for “unity” by proceeding without bipartisan consensus.

The arguments have so far failed to connect, in part because many of its core provisions poll strongly — even with Republicans.

More than 7 in 10 Americans now back Mr. Biden’s aid package, according to new polling from the online research firm SurveyMonkey for The New York Times. That includes support from three-quarters of independent voters, 2 in 5 Republicans and nearly all Democrats. The overall support for the bill is even larger than the substantial majority of voters who said in January that they favored an end-of-year economic aid bill signed into law by President Donald J. Trump.

While Mr. Biden has encouraged Republican lawmakers to get on board with his package, Democrats are moving their bill through Congress using a parliamentary process that will allow them to pass it with only Democratic votes.

“Critics say my plan is too big, that it cost $1.9 trillion dollars; that’s too much,” Mr. Biden said at an event on Friday. “Let me ask them, what would they have me cut?”

House Republican leaders on Friday urged their rank-and-file members to vote against the plan, billing it as Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California’s “Payoff to Progressives Act.” They detailed more than a dozen objections to the bill, including “a third round of stimulus checks costing more than $422 billion, which will include households that have experienced little or no financial loss during the pandemic.” Ms. Pelosi’s office issued its own rebuttal soon after, declaring “Americans need help. House Republicans don’t care.”

Republicans have also railed against the process Democrats have employed to advance the bill, citing dozens of legislative amendments that Republicans offered in various committees, which Democrats rejected. Last week, top Republican senators complained in a letter to Democratic committee leadership about plans to bypass Senate hearings on the House bill, describing it as “the outsourcing of their own committee gavels to the House.”​

Republicans Struggle to Derail Increasingly Popular Stimulus Package

 

Elections have consequences, right Mitch?

They had no problem "following the Constitution" when it came to rushing through a Supreme Court appointment, or Federal judges. Time to STFU and perhaps do something for those in the country who are hurting, instead of always sucking up to the mega-rich.

 

He needs it dumbed down for him. Just tell him the Vatican is exercising its sincerely held religious beliefs that everyone should be forced to vaccinate. Then he’ll get it.