basquebromance
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- Nov 26, 2015
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A gas tax holiday to buy votes before the midterms is an idea so short-sighted that it is insulting to our intelligence.
We don’t need a bandaid stuck on this situation, we need Biden to get out of the way and unleash the power of American energy!
www.politico.com
excerpts:
White House aides, from their vantage point, do not appear to be in enough of a hurry. Rather than abruptly changing strategy, Biden’s team has doubled down on what it believes is an effective two-pronged approach: First, to make steady — if at times slow — progress on the challenges it faces, or at least demonstrate to voters the president is fighting an intractable problem; and second, to highlight contrasts with Republicans to paint them as a party beholden to its extremists and doing little to help struggling Americans.
“Everybody always feels like the greatest enemy to any administration or to progress is time. The challenge is that the arc of governing doesn’t always adhere to Twitter time,” said Robert Gibbs, who served as press secretary to former President Barack Obama. “Right now, there’s a balancing act between the administration wanting to make steady progress because there aren’t quick solutions to a lot of these challenges while also conveying a sense of urgency.”
“We’re asking him to look ahead and to have a blueprint for what more he’s doing to address this crisis,” said Igor Volsky, whose Guns Down America organization signed the letter, along with March For Our Lives, Newtown Action Alliance and others. “If Biden is going to continue saying — as he did on July Fourth — that more needs to be done, he needs to do more … And if he does, he will save lives.”
“The President is leading based on values that unite an overwhelming majority of the country: working to pass legislation that fights inflation and cuts families biggest costs, taking action to protect Americans’ core freedoms and pushing to restore the protections of Roe, and pressing to save more lives after signing the most consequential gun reform in almost 30 years,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates. “At the same time, congressional Republicans have proposed raising taxes on 75 million middle class families, sunsetting Medicare and Social Security, and a national abortion ban. The Senate Republican leader has even threatened to kill crucial legislation that would boost American competitiveness versus China and create hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs to protect big pharma’s ability to overcharge the American people. We’re on the right side in this debate. ”
But some Democrats fear that Biden remains trapped in a prior age of political decorum and unquestioning fealty to institutions and has been slow to recognize both the existential threat felt by some of his supporters
We don’t need a bandaid stuck on this situation, we need Biden to get out of the way and unleash the power of American energy!
Biden isn’t running out of ideas, Dems fear. He’s running out of time.
Democrats are pressing the White House to try and change the dynamics of the midterms. They fear it’s getting too late.
www.politico.com
excerpts:
White House aides, from their vantage point, do not appear to be in enough of a hurry. Rather than abruptly changing strategy, Biden’s team has doubled down on what it believes is an effective two-pronged approach: First, to make steady — if at times slow — progress on the challenges it faces, or at least demonstrate to voters the president is fighting an intractable problem; and second, to highlight contrasts with Republicans to paint them as a party beholden to its extremists and doing little to help struggling Americans.
“Everybody always feels like the greatest enemy to any administration or to progress is time. The challenge is that the arc of governing doesn’t always adhere to Twitter time,” said Robert Gibbs, who served as press secretary to former President Barack Obama. “Right now, there’s a balancing act between the administration wanting to make steady progress because there aren’t quick solutions to a lot of these challenges while also conveying a sense of urgency.”
“We’re asking him to look ahead and to have a blueprint for what more he’s doing to address this crisis,” said Igor Volsky, whose Guns Down America organization signed the letter, along with March For Our Lives, Newtown Action Alliance and others. “If Biden is going to continue saying — as he did on July Fourth — that more needs to be done, he needs to do more … And if he does, he will save lives.”
“The President is leading based on values that unite an overwhelming majority of the country: working to pass legislation that fights inflation and cuts families biggest costs, taking action to protect Americans’ core freedoms and pushing to restore the protections of Roe, and pressing to save more lives after signing the most consequential gun reform in almost 30 years,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates. “At the same time, congressional Republicans have proposed raising taxes on 75 million middle class families, sunsetting Medicare and Social Security, and a national abortion ban. The Senate Republican leader has even threatened to kill crucial legislation that would boost American competitiveness versus China and create hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs to protect big pharma’s ability to overcharge the American people. We’re on the right side in this debate. ”
But some Democrats fear that Biden remains trapped in a prior age of political decorum and unquestioning fealty to institutions and has been slow to recognize both the existential threat felt by some of his supporters
