Look, I don’t care if you support the way the Afghan withdrawal went down. And I don’t care if you like the tortuous serpentine dealings of trying to get his infrastructure bills through the Senate. Whatever else you do, put your support 100% behind President Biden. Because right now, he’s not only saving the Democratic party and giving it relevant purpose, he’s fighting to save democracy itself.
Pop Quiz! How do you beat a schoolyard bully? You take the first swing, bop him on the snoot, and draw first blood. Yeah, you might get stomped, but the bully and his butt boys are going to take some whacks, and bullies and butt boys are not used to lumping home nursing their nuts in their hands. And that is what President Biden is doing right now.
Trump, McConnell, McCarthy, and the rest if the GOP caucus are nothing more or less than schoolyard thugs. Ever since Obama’s inauguration, the GOP, led by Bitch McConnell, has ruled through fear and intimidation. But there’s a new sheriff in town. Biden has suffered the tragedy of the loss of a wife and daughter to a traffic accident, the loss of a son to brain cancer, and more than his share of political scars. Schoolyard bullies don’t even register for Biden, simply because he knows the rules and the ropes.
And fortunately, Biden is giving spine injections to the rest of the Democratic caucus. Biden has been far more progressive than many leaders such as Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez thought he would be. He is giving them cover to go for the gold. And it’s working.
When the Democrats took control of the Senate, McConnell made a typical bully dick move by refusing to hand over the committee chairs to the Democrats without concessions on the filibuster rule. Newly crowned Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer went on Rachel Maddow’s #1 rated cable news show, and actually laughed in McConnell’s face. The Democrats got their chairs the next day.
With his Covid relief bill, Biden bent over backwards to make the GOP a part of the solution. He invited moderate GOP Senators into the Oval Office for a chat about how to move forward. And when Squeaky Susan and the rest of the GOP group flipped Biden double barrel birds, he passed it with budget reconciliation instead. The Democrats became heroes, and the GIO the goats.
The same thing with infrastructure. Biden and the Democrats already have a bird in the hand, basically a $12.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate, the largest in more than 20 years. And while they may not get the full $3.5 trillion, the Democrats will get a social infrastructure package that will restructure and reform the social safety net for generations.
And now Covid. Biden has gone out of his way to make the virus apolitical. He phrased it as a national imperative, a matter of national patriotism, of looking out for each other. But the GOP, especially southern red state Governors, saw the virus as a way of dragging down Biden’s polling numbers. But enough is enough. Biden is dropping the hammer, using job security to ensure that we finally get over the herd immunity threshold.
So in closing, whether or not you support Biden’s every decision, his every position, his every move, support President Biden. Because, for the first time since Bill Clinton stared down Newt Gingrich, we have a President who is standing up to the bullies. And brute force is all that these assholes understand.
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I don’t get why people would criticize the evacuation from Afghanistan. Does anyone think tRump would have done better? After the way he pulled out of Iraq and left the Kurds high and dry? He even couldn’t be bothered with the Americans stranded on cruise ships when Covid first came out. I am beyond tired of the GOP clowns criticizing him, when under former guy, they couldn’t or wouldn’t accomplish a thing.
I will not criticize the evacuation. The Afghan troops on the ground still could have called in drone strikes against the taliban, they had superior weapons and air support. They gave up before there was even a fight. That is not Biden’s responsibility nor the US duty to prop up a government that does not exist. I feel bad for government contractors left behind, but it was not the US that failed them it was their own government.
The Afghan troops gave up because there was no longer any point fighting and dying for a lost cause. Trump had doomed them with his deal with the Taliban. Trump did not even invite the Afghan government to that meeting. That is what a lot of people don’t get. And then after that he did nothing in terms of planning, arranging to get anyone out, in fact he made it even more difficult for Afghan allies to get U.S.visas. Meanwhile, he brought a lot of American troops out of Afghanistan — which looked good for him and was good for them, but which made the situation even more precarious for the Afghan government and anybody connected with them or who benefited from them (including large numbers of women). The way Trump handled this was equal in dickishness with what he did to the Kurds, it just took longer to play out. And Biden gets blamed for it?
As much as I love Obama, he tried to compromise too much. Of course he had lots to deal with in Congress that Biden does not. Biden has to show he can win and that he needs the support of congress in the 2022 elections to keep winning.
Brav-O, Murf, well said. One thing on the Afghan withdrawal. Who committed us to the 08/31 deadline? Wasn’t it TFG? And when did that commitment take place, before of after he lost? If after, isn’t there a policy about lame ducks not making foreign policy that is potentially hurtful to the country? Just asking.
He wanted out in May (but your people put him out before that could happen)
RE McConnell’s dick move, if you want to read what Schumer said to Maddow Jan.26, go here:
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-transcript_in-interview-with-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-majority-leader-schumer-outlines-big-bold-agenda-to-deliver-help-to-the-american-people
Scroll down to the words “unusual situation” and start reading!
Amen, Murph. You are SO right! I’m enjoying seeing Biden work over these asshats, though I really wish he’d get DeJoy out sooner than later. But he’s doing what he said and if the whining, sniveling little bitches on the right don’t like it, tough bounce. Elections have consequences, as they were so fond of telling us during the Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue period of our history. Republicans have ruled the purse strings for so long and have kept this country on a starvation diet, feeding only the billionaires with corporate welfare. Now it’s time for the rest of us to share in the wealth of this nation with updated infrastructure, better workplaces and jobs, healthcare, education, etc etc. Go Joe!