A report card on the Biden administration

[Sandy Shanks]

"Republicans in Congress raised the debt three times when Donald Trump was President, and each time with Democrats' support. But now they won't raise it even though they're responsible for more than $8 trillion in bills incurred in four years under the previous administration," Biden said.

Democrats could pass a debt ceiling all on their own with a simple majority in the Senate if McConnell and his crew didn't filibuster. But Republicans have promised to filibuster to prevent raising the debt ceiling.

Failure to raise the debt ceiling in time could halt payments that millions of Americans rely on, including paychecks to federal workers, Medicare benefits, military salaries, tax refunds, Social Security checks and payments to federal contractors. It could cause job losses, a shutdown of tens of billions in Covid-19 economic recovery aid still set to be delivered, and a near-freeze in credit markets.

Republicans simply don't care.

That would be Senate Republicans who are saying nothing about the pending crisis. That would be Republicans on this forum who are saying nothing about the pending crisis as time is quickly running out.

And that would be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell is refusing to help raise the debt ceiling-- even though the US is on the hook for huge debts run up under the Trump administration. That would be eight trillion dollars. 98% of the debt occurred before the Democrats controlled the White House and Congress.

"The majority doesn't need our votes," McConnell said Monday.

"I suggest that our colleagues get moving," he added.

Stephen Collinson writes, "Technically, McConnell might be correct. In the last resort, Democrats could use a time consuming and complicated maneuver known as reconciliation to extend the government's borrowing authority. But the Kentuckian's action has likely set yet another brutal precedent that will further polarize the business of governance and make the vital task of maintaining a stable economy even more politicized and dysfunctional in years to come.

"The latest debt-ceiling showdown is the most recent example of how the wily Kentucky senator is ready to crush governing norms and conventions if they advance his political goals, thanks to his extraordinary thick hide that is an undeniable political asset. Just because Democrats joined the GOP in raising the debt limit when Republicans were in the majority doesn't mean the favor will be repaid now that the situation is reversed.

In other words, McConnell does not care. His personal political goals are more important than than the needs of the American people. He is willing to sacrifice the American economy to make the Democrats look bad.

It is pure irony that McConnell's me-first policy is creating a situation in which the Democrats will ride to the rescue, saving the American economy, ensuring the security of investments, paying seniors, federal workers, and our military. In the meantime, the Republicans are out in the cold looking like the grinch who stole Christmas.

Republicans have this habit of shooting themselves in the foot. For example, the leading candidate for the Republican nominee for President in 2024 is defeated former President Donald J. Trump who also lost the House and Senate during his watch.

The forum's Republicans will say nothing.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

McConnell is refusing to help raise the debt ceiling-- even though the US is on the hook for huge debts run up under the Trump administration. That would be eight trillion dollars. 98% of the debt occurred before the Democrats controlled the White House and Congress.

In other words, McConnell does not care. His personal political goals are more important than than the needs of the American people. He is willing to sacrifice the American economy to make the Democrats look bad.

McConnell blinked.

CNBC reports, "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday offered a short-term suspension of the U.S. debt ceiling to avert a national default and economic crisis until Democrats are able to pass a more permanent solution before the end of the year."

“To protect the American people from a near-term Democrat-created crisis (?), we will also allow Democrats to use normal procedures to pass an emergency debt limit extension at a fixed dollar amount to cover current spending levels into December,” he said on Twitter. Twitter???

"The development came as President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress amped up pressure on Republicans to act on the debt limit," CNBC.

Democratic senators on Wednesday signaled they will accept McConnell's proposal., but the White House is cool to the idea. White House press secretary Jen Psaki explains.

“My understanding is that there has been no formal offer made, a press release is not a formal offer. And regardless, even the scant details that have been reported present a more complicated, more difficult option than the one that is quite obvious,” Psaki said.

“We could get this done today, we don’t need to kick the can, we don’t need to go through a cumbersome process that every day brings additional risks,” she added.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

McConnell is refusing to help raise the debt ceiling-- even though the US is on the hook for huge debts run up under the Trump administration. That would be eight trillion dollars.

McConnell blinked.

The Hill reports, "Former President Trump accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday of “folding” in his standoff with Democrats over the debt limit shortly after the senator proposed a plan to delay a potential default."

“Looks like Mitch McConnell is folding to the Democrats, again,” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon. “He’s got all of the cards with the debt ceiling, it’s time to play the hand. Don’t let them destroy our country!”

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The President of the United States wanted to use the Department of Justice in his coup attempt.

CNN reports, "The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday released a sweeping report about how former President Donald Trump and a top lawyer in the Justice Department attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"Trump directly asked the Justice Department nine times to undermine the election result, and his chief of staff Mark Meadows broke administration policy by pressuring a Justice Department lawyer to investigate claims of election fraud, according to the report, which is based on witness interviews of top former Justice Department officials.

"The committee also revealed that White House counsel Pat Cipollone threatened to quit in early January as Trump considered replacing then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ lawyer who supported election fraud conspiracies.

"After the eight-month investigation, the findings highlight the relentlessness of Trump and some of his top advisers as they fixated on using the Justice Department to prop up false conspiracies of election fraud. The committee report, the most comprehensive account so far of Trump's efforts to overturn the election.

"Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said the US was a "half a step away from a constitutional crisis, a full-blown constitutional crisis" and explained the events unfolded in three phases."

"First phase, Trump goes to court. Loses every lawsuit, which claims there was voter fraud in the election. Next, he decides he has to take over the Department of Justice and the attorney general, and have the attorney general push this narrative on to the states to tell them to stop from sending in their Electoral College vote totals. When that failed -- and our report goes into graphic detail of the efforts that were made -- the third step was to turn the mob loose on the Capitol the day we were counting the ballots," Durbin said, referring to the January 6 riot.

Trump is attacking the very basis of American democracy -- free and fair elections. We are to be reminded Vladimir Putin, the communist dictator of Russia, wanted Trump to be our President and aided the Republican campaign significantly in 2016.

The Republican response was pathetic and delusional. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's office issued a GOP version, which defended Trump by using this rationale. He "listened to his senior advisors and followed their advice and recommendations."

The rationale being, our President attempted a coup, but, in the end, the coup attempt failed. Therefore he is innocent.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The President of the United States wanted to use the Department of Justice in his coup attempt.

Trump is attacking the very basis of American democracy -- free and fair elections. We are to be reminded Vladimir Putin, the communist dictator of Russia, wanted Trump to be our President and aided the Republican campaign significantly in 2016.

Former Donald Trump aide Dan Scavino, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former adviser Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.are all failing to cooperate with the select committee's investigation into the Presidential inspired January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

They are all admitting their guilt to a conspiracy charge. To wit: They conspired with Donald Trump to overthrow the results of the 2020 election in a bold coup attempt.

63% of Republicans regard Trump as the leader of the Republican Party. A majority of Republicans believe Trump when he says the election was stolen from him despite the total lack of evidence to support that belief. Typical of today's Republicans, they just say the election was stolen as if saying it makes it true. That kind of belief is common with those who have a limited education.

Why do so many Republicans support a man like Trump? We will get no answer. The forum's Republicans don't talk about Republicans. They talk about Democrats. The fact that they will not discuss the activities of their own party is a consequence of their lean education.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Raising the debt ceiling concerns paying bills created by money already spent. Raising the debt ceiling has absolutely nothing to do with future spending.

Mitch McConnell and Republicans think the Republican Party is not responsible for past spending. They want the Democrats to raise the ceiling on their own.

The Times reports, "Mr. McConnell has said the government must not be allowed to stop paying its debts; he has also said he will not let any Republicans vote to raise the debt limit, while moving to block Democrats from doing so themselves."

Despite the agreement struck this week, the Republican position has not changed. Republicans are not responsible for spending in the past, they still say.

No Republican wants Americans to know the facts about prior spending. Please note National Debt increases during the administrations of Bush, Obama, and Trump.

Source: Forbes.com

In general, the National Debt has risen during Republican administrations and decreased during Democratic administrations.

Please note the huge increases in the National Debt by the Republican administration of George W. Bush. Of course, the huge spending was caused by Bush's two wars. In the end, we lost both.

Now note the huge increase of the Debt during the first Democratic administration of Barrack Obama. This was caused by the Great Recession which began during the Bush administration, and the federal government's response to that disastrous economic crisis. Also, the U.S. was still fighting Bush's wars. Note the Debt increase during Obama's second administration. It is far more reasonable because we were well on our way to economic recovery and war costs had lessened drastically.

Despite a bustling economy and only an inconsequential Afghan War, the National Debt rose considerably during the Republican administration of Donald Trump, a total excess of around eight trillion dollars.

The Republican position is, they bear no responsibility for that spending.

As is their custom, we will hear nothing from the forum's Republicans regarding this report.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Everyone not named Trump knows that 2022 is an election year.

Or, Trump's stupidity has caused him to ignore the consequences of his actions during an election year.

I don't know which, Trump is very strange and not very bright.

Regarding his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump's first huge mistake was invoke his influence to cause Senate Republicans to defeat the bipartisan commission which would have ended its investigation by Dec. 31. Members of the commission would not be in Congress.

Because of that vote, Trump and the Republicans now face the House's select committee on the insurrection, controlled by the Democrats and will likely go well into the election year.

In fact Trump is encouraging that development!

The Times reports, "Former President Donald J. Trump has instructed his former aides not to comply with subpoenas from the special congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot, raising the prospect of the panel issuing criminal referrals for some of his closest advisers as early as Friday."

In addition, Trump, a private citizen, says he will invoke executive privilege regarding the White House and its role in the insurrection.

The Democrats could not be happier. They won't be accused of dragging this out deep into an election year.

Trump is doing it for them

Regarding any criminal action, the select committee does not need the witnesses close to Trump. The committee has gathered up thousands of documents. They know what the witnesses did. The committee knows what they said. And they can prove it.

The witnesses and Trump are confirming suspicions. They are virtually pleading the Fifth.

 

[toobfreak]

Failure to raise the debt ceiling in time could halt payments that millions of Americans rely on

Only because the democrats will be sure to stop
it all just to hurt people to the max for political
advantage then blame it on the republicans,
using the MSM to carry their lies while they
assure that the real government for THEM
keeps right on ticking never missing a heartbeat.

Another sap gets buffaloed again.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

How alarmed should we be about the antidemocratic words and actions of the GOP?

Here are a few reasons to take it seriously.

CNN reports, "Many of Trump's fans are supporting it. Top right-wing media outlets are amplifying the messages, with countless segments about supposed voter fraud and constant appeals to the MAGA base's biggest fears. This coverage sometimes looks backward to 2020 but it mostly looks ahead to future elections, softening the ground for future assaults on the rule of law.

"Key lawmakers are giving cover to it. On "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace," the No. 2 House Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise, repeatedly refused "to acknowledge the legitimacy of the vote, instead sticking to his belief that the election results should not have been certified by Congress. Trump impeachment witness Fiona Hill told Margaret Brennan said that the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol may have been just "a dress rehearsal for something that could be happening near term, in 2022, and 2024."

"Viewers are able to hear Trump's doublespeak. He continues to call Nov. 3, 2020, a/k/a election day, the "real insurrection," which is a mind-blowing example of doublespeak. At his rally on Saturday night, he called the Jan. 6 committee probe "the left's new obsession.'"

Trump's rally in Iowa over the weekend was alarming. Establishment Republicans embraced Trump and his Big Lie wholeheartedly.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump's rally in Iowa over the weekend was alarming. Establishment Republicans embraced Trump and his Big Lie wholeheartedly.

Dean Obeidallah writes, "While Donald Trump has held several rallies since the January 6 Capitol insurrection, his rally in Iowa Saturday was the most alarming by far.

"At Trump's past post-presidency events, you wouldn't find the state's leading GOP officials attending en masse. In fact, at a rally in Georgia last month, Trump railed against the state's Republican leaders for refusing to assist him in illegally overturning the 2020 election. Trump even told the crowd he'd prefer potential Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams as governor over his fellow Republican who's currently in office, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

"Saturday's rally in Iowa, though, was different. This one was attended by longtime Iowa US Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Iowa Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson, and other mainstream Republican officials. Some of these very same people, who just nine months ago were slamming Trump for his role in the Capitol riots, were now only too happy to be seen supporting him. This is politics at its worst -- and at its most dangerous for our democracy."

Does any Republican care to comment?

Yeah, I didn't think so. Stay under your rock.

The most hypocritical of the bunch is Sen. Grassley, who on January 6 was escorted by his security detail to a secure location to protect him from the pro-Trump mob that had laid siege on the Capitol.

In February Grassley said in a statement that "President Trump continued to argue that the election had been stolen even though the courts didn't back up his claims, and belittled and harassed elected officials across the country to get his way." He added Trump "encouraged his own, loyal vice president, Mike Pence, to take extraordinary and unconstitutional actions during the Electoral College count."

Grassley continued bluntly: "There's no doubt in my mind that President Trump's language was extreme, aggressive, and irresponsible and must take responsibility for their destructive actions that day."

Obeidallah continued, "Flash forward to Saturday, and there was Grassley beaming as Trump offered a "complete and total endorsement for re-election" for the 88-year-old Senator. Grassley responded, "If I didn't accept the endorsement of a person that's got 91 percent of the Republican voters in Iowa, I wouldn't be too smart."

"To Grassley, it was "smart" to accept the endorsement of the man who spent Saturday's rally spouting the same falsehoods that led to the January 6 violence that caused Grassley to hide in fear. Trump's litany of dangerous election lies at his Iowa rally ranged from irresponsible claims he won Wisconsin "by a lot" in 2020, to lying that the results of the recently released Arizona audit support his false claim that he had actually won that state. He even declared that, "First of all, [Biden] didn't get elected, OK?" The crowd responded to Trump's buffet of lies by chanting, "Trump won! Trump won!"

 

[Sandy Shanks]

He even declared that, "First of all, [Biden] didn't get elected, OK?" The crowd responded to Trump's buffet of lies by chanting, "Trump won! Trump won!"

The Republican Party is in the grip of grassroots Trump supporters with limited education and little understanding of what is happening around them.

The Republican Party gets its support from the rural counties of America. For the most part they are farmers, ranchers and rural shopkeepers with limited education. They don't know the truth about their party, they don't know what Trump has said and done, and they don't want to know. Theirs is a blind loyalty to Trump very similar to a cult.

To illustrate, Iowa is farming state, a part of the agriculture rich Corn Belt. In Iowa, Trump has a favorability rating of 91%.

To further illustrate, not one Iowan will appear on this thread to discuss the issues presented here.

Republicans will run and hide just as they always do.

 

[Foolardi]

President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds. What a refreshing day. Our divisive, erratic, foolish, conspiratorial, narcissistic President is gone, replaced by a President who deeply wants to unite us. Barring ill-advised preconceived notions about President Biden, his task should be easy. We are all Americans.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons, not unlike 81 million Americans who did the same, I am a conservative Independent. That's official. In CA, we have to declare our political posture. Until I was driven out by Trump, for over a quarter of a century I was a declared Republican. I voted for Biden, but I have some reservations concerning him, mostly having to do with taxation and spending.

I said all that because I want to be honest with readers. I want them to know where I am coming from.

Whether or not Biden will be a good President is obviously an open question, but I think he is a good man. He will do his best to unite us and adopt policies that benefit all Americans, while removing those policies that do us harm. He wants the United States to rejoin the community of nations, and the days of isolation and making unitary decisions that involve other nations, in particular our traditional allies, are over.

The European Union's top politician, Ursula von der Leyen, said it best. "After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House."

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America created by a popular President. 59% of Americans approve of Biden.

On day one, Trump's approval rating was 40%, and, although it went lower than that, it never got much higher. Thus the reason for American optimism.

Optimism as used by who.What Tyrant or Dictator.Yes ALL Tyrants think in terms
of Optimism from their flock { subjects }. That is how it worked for Stalin,Hitler
Mao and of course Castro.Never Optimism in the subjects.Just the look of
it on their face as they face another day of being subjects.Lacking most all
Freedoms.And prosperity.Where even the thought of Individualism is often dealt
with swiftly and with cruelty.So one learns to smile as they bid ado to anything
pleasant or reassuring.Of course ones mode of clothing will also have to reflect
what pleases the new tyrant in town.
Of course this Brigade of craven Liars,sycophants and propagandist surely
can never hope to sustain good health.Where a sick mind cannot hope to
build anything but a sick body.A Body politic is never a wise place to tinker.
Because like an Elephant ... the mind may refuse to forget.
That a mind of a poster can tinker around so.As if Trump's many
Overflow Rally's and abililty to talk to any and all WH Press at length
can be dismissed so cavalierly.To make way for a fumbling old career Pol
who couldn't gather any Campaign rally's more than maybe a few hundred
at best.Mostly supporters in vehicles in parking lots honking out approval.
As The Old fart gives short speeches in order to retire early and get
sufficient beddie time.Getting up late because he has no schedule.
I don't think most Tyrants were ever that lazy.It's nice to know how
a word like " Optimism " can reflect such Americanism.
Where 2 + 2 = 5 ... Today. Maybe less tomorrow and tomorrow.
I mean,like what good are mere words when you got a J.Biden
around.

 

[Foolardi]

The Republican Party is in the grip of grassroots Trump supporters with limited education and little understanding of what is happening around them.

The Republican Party gets its support from the rural counties of America. For the most part they are farmers, ranchers and rural shopkeepers with limited education. They don't know the truth about their party, they don't know what Trump has said and done, and they don't want to know. Theirs is a blind loyalty to Trump very similar to a cult.

To illustrate, Iowa is farming state, a part of the agriculture rich Corn Belt. In Iowa, Trump has a favorability rating of 91%.

To further illustrate, not one Iowan will appear on this thread to discuss the issues presented here.

Republicans will run and hide just as they always do.

We've been thru this mill before.It's boring and a drag.
Projection,Rules for Radicals.The blame game,some gaslighting to sprinkle
on top.Then back to plain old outright lies and adopted groupthink.
Then in reverse order.Just to break up any notion of lacking originality.
Keep in simple.When a golfer shanks a drive off the tee .. It ain't pretty.
Americans may tolerate unprettiness,but not for long.
Biden offers nothing pretty.Because he does not posess silver-tongued
eloquence.Or even rambunctious Elmer Gantry con artistry.
Or powerful rhetoric like Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in
- The Lion in Winter - { 1968 }.Or far be it as a Lawrence of Arabia.
Biden is merely a career Political Thug.A Known plagarist.
And now a Proven Fallen Catholic and in mere months the most
disruptive shell of a disastrous Potus in American History.
As if just a little dab will do ya.

 

[Foolardi]

For the most part forum Republicans refuse to discuss the Republican Party, and what it is doing. Under the circumstances, that seems perfectly reasonable.

679,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. People who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 are 11 times more likely to die from the disease. People who live in Republican-led states lead the nation in unvaccinated persons because the Republican leadership is fighting for the freedom of dying from the virus.

In other words, the Republican leadership is siding with the virus.

Republicans have passed laws that restrict voting access, passed gun laws that can turn city streets into the O.K. Corral, while still another law dictates health decisions for women, and a Republican governor promises to remove all rapists in his state.

Taking all this into account, who in the hell wants to talk about what the Republican Party is doing.

It gets worse for Republicans. According to a recent poll conducted by SSRS, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say, 63% to 37%, that Trump should be the leader of the Republican Party.

Forum Republicans do not want to talk about Trump, either.

From that same poll, nearly half of Republicans do not trust him to win in 2024. "51% say that Republicans have a better chance of retaking the presidency if Trump is the nominee, with 49% saying the party would be better off with a different nominee."

Why is it Republicans do not want to talk about the leader of their party? Ironically, why is it 49% of Republicans think Trump is a loser?

There are at least hundred reasons, but this report is already too long. Here is one. I will let the Times tell the short version.

"Notably absent from the 9/11 memorial ceremonies on Saturday was former President Donald J. Trump, a native New Yorker."

The living President's club attended the ceremonies, sans Trump.

The Times continued, "President Biden, former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton all attended the somber name-reading ceremony in Lower Manhattan. Former President George W. Bush spoke at a memorial near Shanksville, Pa., where Mr. Biden attended a wreath-laying ceremony.

"But instead of appearing at one of the ceremonies, Mr. Trump released a series of aggressive statements that criticized our President’s handling of the troop pullout in Afghanistan and praised his allies.

"Mr. Trump visited a police precinct and a neighboring firehouse in Midtown Manhattan. He briefly paid tribute to the heroism of the police and firefighters after the planes hit the twin towers, but spent most of his time treating the visit as a campaign-style rally, continuing his criticism of the Afghanistan pullout, complaining about crime in cities, commenting on how many police officers and firefighters supported him, and falsely claiming once again that he had won the election."

Many Americans saw the video from the firehouse. It was an obscene, narcissistic display by anyone, let alone a former President of the United States.

Trump embarrassed himself ... again. Little wonder as to why people don't want to talk about him.

After seeing the video, try imagining this man becoming our President again.

How come this juvenile regurgitation using quotations.Can't write down
your own thoughts and researched facts.The N.Y.Times is a gagglefest of
Liars.Their most recent whopper was the printed lie using the number
900,ooo deaths for youth that have died of Covid.When the number was
63,ooo.There are repeated examples when the CDC,NIH and Fauci Lied.
With lies assuming the Big Lie that's It's Science.
The Lie about making sure to keep at least 6 feet apart.The N.Y.Times
got that one right.The 6 foot rule was made-up.Just made-up.
But the deal is this.
The Networks,CNN.MSNBC,The Washington Post,N.Y.Times all share one
dynamic trait.Shared among all Leftists.
They all Do not Value the TRUTH.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The Republican Party is in the grip of grassroots Trump supporters with limited education and little understanding of what is happening around them.

The Republican Party gets its support from the rural counties of America. For the most part they are farmers, ranchers and rural shopkeepers with limited education. They don't know the truth about their party, they don't know what Trump has said and done, and they don't want to know. Theirs is a blind loyalty to Trump very similar to a cult.

To illustrate, Iowa is farming state, a part of the agriculture rich Corn Belt. In Iowa, Trump has a favorability rating of 91%.

To further illustrate, not one Iowan will appear on this thread to discuss the issues presented here.

As expected no response from the forum's Republicans to the damaging facts about their party and their party's leader in posts 709, 710,m and 711 above.

Not a peep.

They are too dumb to react to what their party is doing. All they know is their blind loyalty to Trump for reasons they can't define. They belong to a cult, and there is no questioning the leader of the cult even when he is leading the attack on American democracy in accordance with Vladimir Putin's wishes.

If Republicans react at all, they attack the writer and Biden while attempting to bury the damaging facts concerning their party.

It's just a question of intelligence, or the lack thereof.

 

[Foolardi]

As expected no response from the forum's Republicans to the damaging facts about their party and their party's leader in posts 709, 710,m and 711 above.

Not a peep.

They are too dumb to react to what their party is doing. All they know is their blind loyalty to Trump for reasons they can't define. They belong to a cult, and there is no questioning the leader of the cult even when he is leading the attack on American democracy in accordance with Vladimir Putin's wishes.

If Republicans react at all, they attack the writer and Biden while attempting to bury the damaging facts concerning their party.

It's just a question of intelligence, or the lack thereof.

No longer works.Great fail.You have to prove what political points you toss
about as if playing craps.Oscar Wilde was way ahead of his time.
" Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. "
The MSM HAS been found out.The Fres Press is not free.It's corrupted up to
it's gills.This is how it went down in Stalins Russia.And yes,Stalin was a newspaper man
before he became a world-shaking Dictator..Edited - Pravda -.
Just as todays' Scientists have been corrupted.
The democrat Party and their hierarchy are For Sale.To the highest bidder.
Political favor has never been so demanded,adored and played out.
The Motto of Leftists and Democrats alike is :
We do Not consider The Truth a Value.
The Great ocean of Truth in the U.S. is No More.
Much less.
" When knaves fall out,honest men get their goods;
when priests dispute,we come to the Truth. "
-- Benjamin Franklin

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Chris Cillizza writes, "When people cast a vote for president, they are hoping -- sometimes against hope -- that the person they have picked will do things to make their lives better.

"It's the most basic expectation that voters have of a politician: I voted for you ... now go do what you said you would do.

"So, when voters feel as though the politician for whom they voted isn't delivering on what was promised -- or isn't doing much of anything -- that's when things get really dicey for the politician."

Indeed, Biden's numbers are going in the wrong direction. The honeymoon is over.

The Post reports, "After an initial burst of support, Biden has seen his approval ratings fall significantly in recent months. A Washington Post average of polls since the start of September shows 44 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s job approval, while 49 percent disapprove."

It remains to be seen whether Biden’s falling support is a sign of enduring enmity or a short-term reflection of a tough stretch marked by a haphazard withdrawal from Afghanistan, a stalled domestic agenda and a surge in coronavirus infections due to the delta variant, the Post.

Many believe the falling numbers are just temporary. Some Americans still blame Biden for the sudden collapse of the Afghan Army, creating a messy withdrawal despite the record setting airlift of 124,000 people. However, soon Afghanistan will simply become a fading memory. It already is for most Americans who have their own problems that require attention.

The numbers from the delta variant are going down -- not nearly fast enough -- but going down, leading to the conclusion that factor is temporary.

Democrats can read the numbers as well as anyone, and, come November 8, 2022, for many their very jobs will be at stake. If the Democrats can't get it together, they will be out of work.

Which, means, of course, they will get it together, and soon.

Some predict Biden's numbers will improve greatly by January, which will lift the entire Democratic party just in time for the 2022 elections.

As for further motivation, picture a party controlled by Trump and has been attacking America's free elections for the past several months now in control of Congress. That party also wants to control women's health decisions and is fighting methods to control the delta variant.

Does anyone want that party to control Congress?

 

[Foolardi]

The Republican Party is in the grip of grassroots Trump supporters with limited education and little understanding of what is happening around them.

The Republican Party gets its support from the rural counties of America. For the most part they are farmers, ranchers and rural shopkeepers with limited education. They don't know the truth about their party, they don't know what Trump has said and done, and they don't want to know. Theirs is a blind loyalty to Trump very similar to a cult.

To illustrate, Iowa is farming state, a part of the agriculture rich Corn Belt. In Iowa, Trump has a favorability rating of 91%.

To further illustrate, not one Iowan will appear on this thread to discuss the issues presented here.

Republicans will run and hide just as they always do.

Even If Trump won the Presidency,last year I doubt he would have
pulled an Obama.By Keeping in tact his Campaign Pac as Obama did after
winning in 2012.From Launching OFA { Organizing for America ] even before being
sworn-in { Mid January 2009 }.A Project of the Democrat National Committee.
This DNC vehicle morphed into OFA { Organizing for Action } after the 2012 win.
As the newspaper of record { N.Y.Times } explains " An army of [Obama] supporters
talking,sending e-mail and texting to friends and neighbors as they try to mold
public opinion. "
Where another site described as " Organizing for Action : Obama's Army
of 32,500 + Soldier Anarchist. "

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The Republican Party is in the grip of grassroots Trump supporters with limited education and little understanding of what is happening around them.

The Republican Party gets its support from the rural counties of America. For the most part they are farmers, ranchers and rural shopkeepers with limited education. They don't know the truth about their party, they don't know what Trump has said and done, and they don't want to know. Theirs is a blind loyalty to Trump very similar to a cult.

In fifty plus years of following politics I have never seen something so strange!

A major party is being led by a loser, a prolific liar who has lost sight of reality, and an insurrectionist against his own government.

On Donald Trump's watch, the Republican Party lost the House, Senate, and the Presidency within two years time. He lost his reelection by seven million votes.

Nearly a year later Trump is still insisting that he won the election. President Trump pressured acting DOJ officials including acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on December 27 to "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."

President Trump planned the Jan. 6 insurrection against his government well in advance. He all but circled Jan. 6 on the nation’s calendar. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” President Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, just one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!”

In a rousing speech on the day of his well planned insurrection, he encouraged an assault on our nation's capital. After reminded them again that the election was stolen from them, he told the angry crowd,
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to show strength. You have to be strong.
When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore!”

Vladimir Putin, who helped Trump become President, was obviously pleased with Trump's assault on American democracy.

Strangest of all, as this thread attests, grassroots Republicans say nothing about all this. Of course, what can they say?

Despite all this, Republicans in leadership positions fully support Trump. That I don't get, and, because Republicans say little about their own party, we will never get an explanation of the strange, almost suicidal pact.

CNN reports, "Nine months after the attack on the US Capitol, Republicans in Congress are defending Donald Trump's role on January 6 in some of their strongest terms yet -- and signaling he'd have widespread backing from the party if he ran for president again in 2024.

Republicans from across the conference -- including some who are vulnerable in next year's midterms or have long been seen as part of the establishment wing of the party -- are expressing little to no reservations about the prospect of Trump topping the ticket again, even as he continues to spread the same election lies that led a mob to storm their place of work, CNN.

CNN continued, "But as time elapses since January 6 and Trump makes a return to campaign-style rallies, a large swath of the House GOP conference is publicly rallying around the defeated former President while downplaying the deadly Capitol riot -- a huge boon for Trump as he weighs his political future. If the GOP had any lingering doubts about Trump being the face of their party, they have completely evaporated from public view."

Can someone explain it to me.

I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Foolardi]

In fifty plus years of following politics I have never seen something so strange!

A major party is being led by a loser, a prolific liar who has lost sight of reality, and an insurrectionist against his own government.

On Donald Trump's watch, the Republican Party lost the House, Senate, and the Presidency within two years time. He lost his reelection by seven million votes.

Nearly a year later Trump is still insisting that he won the election. President Trump pressured acting DOJ officials including acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on December 27 to "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."

President Trump planned the Jan. 6 insurrection against his government well in advance. He all but circled Jan. 6 on the nation’s calendar. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” President Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, just one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!”

In a rousing speech on the day of his well planned insurrection, he encouraged an assault on our nation's capital. After reminded them again that the election was stolen from them, he told the angry crowd,
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to show strength. You have to be strong.
When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore!”

Vladimir Putin, who helped Trump become President, was obviously pleased with Trump's assault on American democracy.

Strangest of all, as this thread attests, grassroots Republicans say nothing about all this. Of course, what can they say?

Despite all this, Republicans in leadership positions fully support Trump. That I don't get, and, because Republicans say little about their own party, we will never get an explanation of the strange, almost suicidal pact.

CNN reports, "Nine months after the attack on the US Capitol, Republicans in Congress are defending Donald Trump's role on January 6 in some of their strongest terms yet -- and signaling he'd have widespread backing from the party if he ran for president again in 2024.

Republicans from across the conference -- including some who are vulnerable in next year's midterms or have long been seen as part of the establishment wing of the party -- are expressing little to no reservations about the prospect of Trump topping the ticket again, even as he continues to spread the same election lies that led a mob to storm their place of work, CNN.

CNN continued, "But as time elapses since January 6 and Trump makes a return to campaign-style rallies, a large swath of the House GOP conference is publicly rallying around the defeated former President while downplaying the deadly Capitol riot -- a huge boon for Trump as he weighs his political future. If the GOP had any lingering doubts about Trump being the face of their party, they have completely evaporated from public view."

Can someone explain it to me.

I'm not holding my breath.

Trump was still addressing that crowd when the supposed " Insurrection "
was gearing up.He was still on stage and talked for an hour and 15 minutes.
His intent was to remind those who attended { a massive crowd stretching from
Ellipse to the Washington Monument } about what We the people had undergone
in the last year { A summer of Love } of anything but love.
No need to rehash what took place an entire summer.The RNC Convention took care of
explaining their utter distraught reaction to what took place.
At Biden's DNC convention a month later in August not a word about the
terrible Summer of Love.Again No mention of the Riots,Looting,Burnings
of Cop Cruisers,Federal Bldgs. and deaths related.
Trump was intent on focusing over ways to Fix the Election system.
There is no doubting that the 20200 Election was tailor-made to accomodate
a skittish Pandemic response.Blue states were in a rush to mail out untold
numbers of Mail-in Ballots.
Trump made a point of saying and Urging those in attendance ... :
to " Peacefully and Patriotically make your voices heard ".
How come no mention of that in yer spiel.

" Trump gave examples of how he believes the election was
rigged.Such as sending out universal ballots,having more votes than
voters in several places,old voter rolls,and using the pendemic to
change voting rules on the fly.Urging people to call on their
Representatives for change."
"