It’s Wildly Premature to Call Biden a Failed President January 19, 2022 at 10:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
Max Boot: “Biden was never going to be another FDR or LBJ, not with only 50 votes in the Senate. He was lucky to pass more than $3 trillion in spending last year, with $1.2 trillion of that coming in a bipartisan infrastructure bill. Why isn’t that good enough for his supporters?
“But nor is he destined to become another Jimmy Carter — a one-term president who is widely, perhaps unfairly, perceived as a failure.
“A large part of Biden’s problem is that presidents get blamed for a lot of things they have little control over — in his case, Covid-19 and inflation.”
Mark Kelly Backs Changes to the Filibuster January 19, 2022 at 10:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who is up for re-election this year and was previously undecided on the filibuster, issued this statement: “If campaign finance and voting rights reforms are blocked again this week, I will support the proposed changes to pass them with a majority vote.”
Trump Cult TV January 19, 2022 at 10:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments
A One America News host, who recently conducted an interview with former Donald Trump, likened him to Jesus on a recent broadcast. HA HAHA HARDY HAR HAR!!!!
Aaron Rupar: “Put bluntly, OAN is Trump cult TV. Like the Republican Party, which didn’t have a platform in 2020 and won’t have a legislative agenda to run on this year, its programming doesn’t have a coherent identity beyond Trump worship...”
OH GOODY! Eric Trump’s Phone Records Subpoenaed January 19, 2022 at 9:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump’s children, Eric Trump, as well as Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr.,” CNN reports.
“It appears to be the first time the select committee has issued a subpoena that targeted a member of the Trump family, in what marks a significant escalation of the investigation into Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection.”
OH DON'T CALL IT AN INSURRECTION! THAT UPSETS THE CRAZIES!
AND IT GETS EVEN BETTER: Eric Trump Invoked the Fifth More Than 500 Times January 19, 2022 at 9:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 124 Comments
Buried in a New York Times story: “Ms. James already questioned another of Mr. Trump’s sons, Eric Trump, in October 2020. He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against incriminating himself in response to more than 500 questions, the new court filing said.”
TAEGAN GODDARD comments: "A reminder of what Donald Trump once said: “The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
He has to provide normality. Because he promised it from his basement!😃😃😃 compared to the former Coldheartedtruth.
If President Joe Biden's only task in his solo press conference on Wednesday was restoring his battered political standing, it would be daunting enough. But the President will arrive in the East Room at a moment of national exhaustion and drained morale as the coronavirus pandemic heads into a third year, amid a sense that events at home and abroad are cascading out of control and that vicious ideological divides could tear America apart.
The country has not been as ideologically estranged for generations. Two big blocks of Americans believe everything that they think their nation stands for could be ripped away.
Biden was elected to slake the poison, bridge divides and solve problems. But in his first year in office, political bitterness has deepened, partly because of ex-President Donald Trump's corrosive and dangerous campaign to destroy American democracy. And Biden's interpretation of tiny Democratic mandates in Congress might have delighted liberals but it has prompted some who saw him as a moderate to wonder whether they misjudged him.
Joe Biden enters the second year of his presidency looking for a reset after a tumultuous first 12 months.
In such an atmosphere, the President is under pressure to do more than advance a political program that is now almost certain to fall well short of his ambitious goals.
Extreme times call for presidents to restate a sense of common national mission, to assess simultaneous crises with clarity and to inject a sense of hope that some sense of normality may be on the horizon. Or if it isn't, to at least demonstrate a strategy to slowly turn things around that voters can trust.
Most likely, Wednesday's televised session with journalists will serve to stress the impossibility of the task before Biden and underscore the cruel, lonely reality behind President Harry S. Truman's mantra that "the buck stops here."
The White House called the press conference to highlight wins in Biden's first term -- including a quickly scaled-up vaccine drive to combat Covid-19, a rare bipartisan law that will spend $1 trillion on repairing infrastructure, large cuts in child poverty and Biden's relaunch of traditional American leadership on the world stage following Trump's tantrums at summits, genuflecting to tyrants and trashing of alliances.
But Biden's victory lap will be short. Few presidents in recent times have faced such a staggering catalogue of crises as they prepare for a White House press conference. He is sure to be assailed by a flurry of questions to which the White House has yet to provide decisive answers. The event may ultimately point more to the stark challenges in the year ahead than to the achievements that Biden racked up in his first 12 months in power.
8 comments:
Joe had a Yuge win.
He ordered a "review" of the US Supply Chain.
It sure would be embarrassing.
A lot of dunces would take them to Donald.
Out of embarrassment of Biden no doubt
It’s Wildly Premature to Call Biden a Failed President
January 19, 2022 at 10:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
Max Boot:
“Biden was never going to be another FDR or LBJ, not with only 50 votes in the Senate. He was lucky to pass more than $3 trillion in spending last year, with $1.2 trillion of that coming in a bipartisan infrastructure bill. Why isn’t that good enough for his supporters?
“But nor is he destined to become another Jimmy Carter — a one-term president who is widely, perhaps unfairly, perceived as a failure.
“A large part of Biden’s problem is that presidents get blamed for a lot of things they have little control over — in his case, Covid-19 and inflation.”
Mark Kelly Backs Changes to the Filibuster
January 19, 2022 at 10:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who is up for re-election this year and was previously undecided on the filibuster, issued this statement: “If campaign finance and voting rights reforms are blocked again this week, I will support the proposed changes to pass them with a majority vote.”
Trump Cult TV
January 19, 2022 at 10:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments
A One America News host, who recently conducted an interview with former Donald Trump, likened him to Jesus on a recent broadcast.
HA HAHA HARDY HAR HAR!!!!
Aaron Rupar: “Put bluntly, OAN is Trump cult TV. Like the Republican Party, which didn’t have a platform in 2020 and won’t have a legislative agenda to run on this year, its programming doesn’t have a coherent identity beyond Trump worship...”
OH GOODY!
Eric Trump’s Phone Records Subpoenaed
January 19, 2022 at 9:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump’s children, Eric Trump, as well as Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr.,”
CNN reports.
“It appears to be the first time the select committee has issued a subpoena that targeted a member of the Trump family, in what marks a significant escalation of the investigation into Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection.”
OH DON'T CALL IT AN INSURRECTION!
THAT UPSETS THE CRAZIES!
AND IT GETS EVEN BETTER:
Eric Trump Invoked the Fifth More Than 500 Times
January 19, 2022 at 9:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 124 Comments
Buried in a New York Times story:
“Ms. James already questioned another of Mr. Trump’s sons, Eric Trump, in October 2020. He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against incriminating himself in response to more than 500 questions, the new court filing said.”
TAEGAN GODDARD comments:
"A reminder of what Donald Trump once said:
“The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
NOW THAT'S A REAL KNEE SLAPPER, TAEGAN!
He has to provide normality. Because he promised it from his basement!😃😃😃 compared to the former Coldheartedtruth.
If President Joe Biden's only task in his solo press conference on Wednesday was restoring his battered political standing, it would be daunting enough. But the President will arrive in the East Room at a moment of national exhaustion and drained morale as the coronavirus pandemic heads into a third year, amid a sense that events at home and abroad are cascading out of control and that vicious ideological divides could tear America apart.
The country has not been as ideologically estranged for generations. Two big blocks of Americans believe everything that they think their nation stands for could be ripped away.
Biden was elected to slake the poison, bridge divides and solve problems. But in his first year in office, political bitterness has deepened, partly because of ex-President Donald Trump's corrosive and dangerous campaign to destroy American democracy. And Biden's interpretation of tiny Democratic mandates in Congress might have delighted liberals but it has prompted some who saw him as a moderate to wonder whether they misjudged him.
Joe Biden enters the second year of his presidency looking for a reset after a tumultuous first 12 months.
In such an atmosphere, the President is under pressure to do more than advance a political program that is now almost certain to fall well short of his ambitious goals.
Extreme times call for presidents to restate a sense of common national mission, to assess simultaneous crises with clarity and to inject a sense of hope that some sense of normality may be on the horizon. Or if it isn't, to at least demonstrate a strategy to slowly turn things around that voters can trust.
Most likely, Wednesday's televised session with journalists will serve to stress the impossibility of the task before Biden and underscore the cruel, lonely reality behind President Harry S. Truman's mantra that "the buck stops here."
The White House called the press conference to highlight wins in Biden's first term -- including a quickly scaled-up vaccine drive to combat Covid-19, a rare bipartisan law that will spend $1 trillion on repairing infrastructure, large cuts in child poverty and Biden's relaunch of traditional American leadership on the world stage following Trump's tantrums at summits, genuflecting to tyrants and trashing of alliances.
But Biden's victory lap will be short. Few presidents in recent times have faced such a staggering catalogue of crises as they prepare for a White House press conference. He is sure to be assailed by a flurry of questions to which the White House has yet to provide decisive answers. The event may ultimately point more to the stark challenges in the year ahead than to the achievements that Biden racked up in his first 12 months in power.
James and Roger doing the Appology tour after only 1 year.
Embarrassingly
Will he take unstaged pre-vetted questions?
Freedom is Restored in the UK.
Boris Johnson ends coronavirus restrictions
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