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The departure is clearly throwing some Washington journalists for a loop after decades of watching Democrats kowtow to Republicans.
During Thursday's White House press briefing, The New York Times' Michael Shear fixated on why President Biden wasn't extending more olive branches to Republicans, like Obama had in early 2009. Biden, for instance, doesn't have any GOP Cabinet members such as Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates—a holdover from the Bush administration. Shear also marveled that Biden's first directives were "largely designed at erasing as much of the Trump legacy as you can with executive orders"—the inference being that such an aggressive rejection of Trump policies would turn off Republicans, thereby crushing all comity. Gee, what ever happened to "elections have consequences"?
Hey Republicans, we're all unified on ending the filibuster, fixing the Supreme Court, over turning 40 years of conservative failure and grift, and putting Trump and his spawn in prison. Isn't unity a wonderful thing?
During Thursday's White House press briefing, The New York Times' Michael Shear fixated on why President Biden wasn't extending more olive branches to Republicans, like Obama had in early 2009. Biden, for instance, doesn't have any GOP Cabinet members such as Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates—a holdover from the Bush administration. Shear also marveled that Biden's first directives were "largely designed at erasing as much of the Trump legacy as you can with executive orders"—the inference being that such an aggressive rejection of Trump policies would turn off Republicans, thereby crushing all comity. Gee, what ever happened to "elections have consequences"?

An unapologetic Biden is finally saying goodbye to the centrism that hobbled Democrats for decades
As Barack Obama's inauguration kicked off on Jan. 20, 2009, LGBTQ Americans across the country watched with mixed emotions while evangelical pastor Rick Warren delivered the invocation. Though the vast majority of them had voted for Obama, Warren had...
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Hey Republicans, we're all unified on ending the filibuster, fixing the Supreme Court, over turning 40 years of conservative failure and grift, and putting Trump and his spawn in prison. Isn't unity a wonderful thing?