Biden was the right guy to beat Trump. The suburbs were tired of drama, and no one else could have gotten the black vote that delivered GA.
It's just that he's never been any good at getting up on issue wave. That's how he got Clarence confirmed, and not calling additional victims who were willing to testify. Yet he saw himself as a kind of champion for women's rights.
He still has more explaining to do, however.
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I don't see a real analogy between Clarence and Keggers, btw.
Abortion is another, and timely, example. He's still dithering with reconcilliation and BBB. NOBODY gives a shit about that anymore, and even working class people see that just giving people money to stay home is inflationary. But he COULD be proposing A SPENDING BILL to use federal money to pay for abortions and repeal the Hyde Amend. It might not get past the parlimentarian, but at least he'd be DOING something.
Access to abortion is no longer a constitutional right in the United States. But it remains a human right. And it is time for Congress to step up and protect this right — through budget measures gu…
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Yet another example was the issue that started his popularity slide ... Afghan. Nobody, least of all Trump, had any interest in continuing that war .... well, there were the generals who might still be fighting Vietnam rather than conceding it was a bad idea all along. But, Biden's team thought all they had to do is tell people it was time to leave, when that should have been the centerpiece of a public relations campaign preparing America for two or three months.
He's just tone deaf and incapable of moving on the fly. The hope had been that steady hands like Schumer and Pelosi would guide things, at least legislatively. But Kaine sided with Schumer who avoided anything that would have let AOC say he was weak on "progressivism" - when he's always been pro-corp rather than worker - and cut Pelosi's legs out from under her ... when she's always been progressive yet not bringing up shit she can't pass. So Jaypal will be the next face of the dem MINORITY in the house.
