President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

If you can't/won't fire people, you're going to be a very poor President of the United States. I mean, there are a zillion other ways to fuck up the job, but that's a pretty obvious one.

 

It’s Fox News 101. If you criticize President A for abusing a particular power of his office, then President B is a free target anytime he exercises that same power, even if it is a legitimate use.

 

It’s also a useful tool of people pretending to not be conservative on message boards.

 

For 74 million Americans, this is what presidential leadership looks like:

 

Good to see Kellyanne took a break from ignoring her daughter's calls for help to criticize being fired from a job she was not qualified to do.

 

To a committed progressive, a liberal is a conservative.

 

Thank you, Alma. That’s going to be the funniest thing I read all day.

 

Pro-Trump display......with a POW flag. SMH

 

You disagree?

From than Manchin story:

The talks underscore the challenges ahead for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who needs to win over Manchin but also avoid provoking a revolt among progressives -- particularly in the House -- who are already balking at the West Virginia's private suggestion to bring the price tag of the overall bill down to around $1.5 trillion. And without Senate passage of the reconciliation bill, House progressives are warning they'll derail the Senate's $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan that Manchin was central in negotiating.

"The idea of a $1.5 trillion price tag being sufficient to accomplish those goals for the people is fanciful," Rep. Mondaire Jones, a progressive Democrat from New York, said on CNN.

1.5 trillion. Fanciful.

 

She won the popular vote by 3 million voters, IIRC

 

Last fall, a bridge in my town had a chunk fall off of it. The bridge was only 29 years old (30 now). Poor construction, salt water intrusion, rust. Luckily, the north and south spans were different bridges. The southbound (3 lanes) was closed for months and months for repairs. But we're lucky. If that chunk hadn't fallen and the interior degradation had continued, it would have collapsed with cars on it.
We have old, crumbling infrastructure all over the country and new, poorly constructed infrastructure as well. And that's only a part what the bill is aimed to fix, improve and build..