President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I can almost live with his new-found fiscal caution. I don’t agree with it, but it is within the bounds of rational political belief.

But when he hides behind the skirts of the filibuster to essentially kill restoring voting rights protections, that calls into question if he ever really wants to be a Democrat. Whites hostile to multiracial democracy have already sorted themselves out of voting for Democrats. The people he imagines this is playing well to aren’t voting for him anymore regardless. I know he can no more imagine being out of office than he can imagine breathing underwater, but he might already be on his last chance to use his accumulated power to do right by his country.

 

There's never a military re-enactor around when you really need them.

 

I'm with Biden on the requiring a filibuster to be an actual filibuster - by all means argue against voting rights long enough for 64 million Americans to miss a Social Security check or a federal paycheck and see how that works out for you when its on CSPAN 24/7 and you're reading Dr. Seuss and Ayn Rand. There has to be risk and reward for the filibuster to work effectively.

 

In the words of my generation, UP YOURS!!!!!

 

GOP: We need to help blue collar workers
Biden: Here is my plan to help blue collar workers
GOP: That’s divisive class warfare!!!

 

Biden told a couple whoppers on immigration last night. Far short of Trump, of course - really on any subject, but immigration is one stubborn issue.

AP FACT CHECK: Biden skews record on migrants; GOP on virus

 

If members of Congress and the Senate want us to stay in Afghanistan - declare war, put your name on it - they never, ever have - even those still serving who gave W. the blank check a week after 9/11 never seemed to interested in the specifics - as long as the military contractors were happy, they were happy.

 

First he tries to ban whoppers. Then he tells a couple. Typical.

 

If it only it were just military contractors. Military leaders want it, too. The march of freedom and whatnot. They're missionaries of democracy. Moral tourists.

Pastors do this sometimes - make a big show of "leaving America" and heading overseas, which they do, but damn if they don't seem to be back in America a lot.

 

I think it's more than power at this point. Less about power, frankly, and more about a kind of morality. That was at play in Afghanistan, there isn't any question.