In 47 Years in Washington DC, What Has Joe Biden Really Done?

[JimBowie1958]

Well, the list is long, but among those mostly symbolic laws and 'sense of the Senate' do-nothing measures, a few things do emerge.

1) Joe Biden persuaded most Liberals to not really integrate public schools.

Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?

Joe Biden has the worst record on racial justice of any likely Democratic primary candidate. He is also the most popular among black voters.

nymag.com

Joe Biden once called state-mandated school integration “the most racist concept you can come up with,” and Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” He was a staunch opponent of “forced busing” in the 1970s, and leading crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Uncle Joe has described African-American felons as “predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate — and white supremacist senators as his friends. ...​

​

Biden helped kill the most effective policy for improving black educational attainment that America has ever known. ​

​

Joe Biden was for desegregating America’s schools, until his constituents were against it. When the Delaware Democrat launched his first campaign for the Senate in 1972, the Supreme Court had just ruled that the Constitution required policymakers to pursue “the greatest possible degree of actual desegregation” — and that forcing white students to attend schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, was a legitimate means of doing so. Being an enlightened liberal, Biden began his candidacy as an advocate for such policies. He accused Republicans of demagoguing the busing issue, and appealing to white voters’ ugliest instincts.​

​

​

But as his campaign progressed, and Biden discerned that the arc of history was bending toward white backlash, the young candidate bent with it. He became a caricature of a white northern liberal — arguing that forced busing was appropriate for the South (where segregation was the product of racist laws), but unnecessary for the North (where, Biden pretended, it merely reflected the preferences of the white and black communities).​

​

​

Once in the Senate, Biden continued to triangulate, voting for most, though not all, f the anti-busing amendments that came before him. But for his overwhelmingly white constituents, nothing less than massive resistance to busing would suffice. The New Castle County Neighborhood Schools Association booed Biden off the stage at one event in 1974. One year later, the Delaware senator broke ranks with northern liberals— and joined his virulently racist North Carolina colleague Jesse Helms in voting to kneecap all federal efforts to integrate schools, anywhere in the country.​

2) Joe Biden got thousands of blacks imprisoned for minor crimes.

The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are

In hindsight, complicated policy conversations get flattened into stark shades of right and wrong.

www.theatlantic.com

​

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey wheeled on the former vice president, attacking his sponsorship of the 1994 federal crime bill with a roundhouse punch. “There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses,” Booker said, “because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine.” ...​

​

It is true that the bill—which extended the death penalty to 60 new crimes, stiffened sentences, offered states strong financial incentives for building new prisons, and banned a range of assault weapons—helped lead to the wave of mass incarceration that’s resulted in the United States accounting for 25 percent of the world’s prison population.​

​

But Booker’s implication that the law was simply a cynical sop to fearful white voters is at odds with the political realities of the time, when the bill passed with bipartisan support, including the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and with the backing of other black leaders beyond Capitol Hill. This is the second straight presidential election in which the crime bill has loomed as a loaded issue—Hillary Clinton was excoriated from the left in 2016 for her past support—and it will doubtless continue to surface as long as Biden is in the race.​

3) Joe Biden voted to tax Social Security benefits.

VERIFY: Did Joe Biden vote to tax social security benefits twice during his Senate career?

The Verify Team was sent an email, in which a viewer claimed that Joe Biden voted to tax social security benefits two times in his career. This is true.

www.wkyc.com

Did Joe Biden vote to tax Social Security benefits two times in his Senate career, as claimed?​

​

Answer:​

​

Yes. In 1983, Joe Biden joined a bipartisan effort to make 50% of Social Security benefits taxable, for those above a certain income. This new revenue would go towards the Social Security Trust Fund. ​

4) Biden voted for and led the fight for NAFTA and allowing China more access to American economy and businesses.

Will Joe Biden's political record come back to haunt him?

The Democratic front-runner's stances on abortion, war, welfare and trade are under attack.

www.bbc.com

Trade deals​

"Does anybody think that Joe can go to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana or Minnesota and say vote for me, I voted for those terrible trade agreements?" Mr Sanders asked supporters in March. "I don't think so."​

The anti-free trade line worked for Mr Sanders in 2016, when the same criticism of Hillary Clinton helped the senator, a protectionist and a populist, eke out a surprise win in Michigan over his rival.​

Mr Biden has said he stands by his vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which critics say hollowed out manufacturing in the US. However, Mr Biden has argued that he is a "fair trader" who believes that "we should treat other countries in a way they treat us", rather than a "free trader".​

The argument against Mr Biden looks to be less effective for Mr Sanders this time around than four years ago. According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of self-described Democrats now say that Nafta has been beneficial for the US.​

The debate will play out in the general election, however. "Believe me, Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade," Mr Sanders told CNN. "Just looking at the facts - if you're going into the heartland of America... it's hard to make the case, when Trump has made trade such an important part of his agenda."​

5) Biden has always supported credit card companies and is one reason so many are based in Delaware. In 2005 he helped make it very difficult for consumers to get out of credit card debt.

The 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained

A clash over a 2005 bankruptcy bill — and a broader contrast in worldviews.

www.vox.com

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first Democratic 2020 hopeful to take a direct swing at former Vice President Joe Biden since he got into the race, accusing him of being “on the side of the credit companies” in a fight that launched her political career a decade ago.​

​

Warren’s quarrel with Biden isn’t personal. It’s about a 2005 bankruptcy bill he supported as a senator. Warren opposed the bill so vehemently that its passage inspired her transition from a Harvard bankruptcy law professor, who studied middle-class economics, to a senator and now a presidential hopeful.​

​

“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said after an April rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”​

​

The bill made it harder for individuals to file for bankruptcy and get out of debt, a legal change that credit card companies and many major retailers had championed for years. The bill passed Congress with large majorities, but most Democratic senators, including Barack Obama, voted no. Biden voted yes and was widely seen at the time as one of the bill’s major Democratic champions.​

​

Biden, by contrast, saw the bill as an admittedly imperfect but fundamentally sound compromise that he improved by participating in crafting it. By cutting down on bankruptcies, the legislation helped not just credit card companies but also consumers who benefit from lower interest rates. The legislation contained provisions intended to protect low-income households and in part thanks to Biden’s work made some other changes that are favorable to the interests of divorced women and their children.​

​

The Warren-Biden clash is also a window into a disagreement about the meaning of the current moment in Democratic Party politics. Warren wants to challenge a system she saw as fundamentally corrupt long before Trump arose, while Biden pitches a return to normalcy and the kind of politics in which compromise, horse trading, and home state interests are just part of the game.​

Slow Joe is no friend of American working class families or of minority voters.

 

[bottlecap]

BIDEN also voted to involve the United States if foreign military wars against countries that posed no threat to the United States....in Serbia, Kosovo, Syria, Iraq and Libya. A WAR MONGERS Dream candidate.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

This is a thread that will die a short but painful death. The man has done nothing. He offers nothing. After this election I expect to see a lot of these old dinosaurs go off into the sunset and die.

 

[rightwinger]

Got rid of Robert Bork

 

[bottlecap]

This is a thread that will die a short but painful death. The man has done nothing. He offers nothing. After this election I expect to see a lot of these old dinosaurs go off into the sunset and die.

If this thread contains the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY, it will go on for a long time.

If it is the GOOD only, then I agree with you.

 

[Likkmee]

I give the guy credit for this.

 

[Zander]

He made a lot of women and children very uncomfortable......

 

[Carl in Michigan]

This is a thread that will die a short but painful death. The man has done nothing. He offers nothing. After this election I expect to see a lot of these old dinosaurs go off into the sunset and die.

If this thread contains the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY, it will go on for a long time.

If it is the GOOD only, then I agree with you.

He asked for the man's accomplishments. That means how has the country benefited from his "service " This is a man who used the office to acquire power and money. The man is a complete failure.

 

[Maxdeath]

He did help add the word Bork to the English language because of the complete mess of justice Borks conformation

 

[gipper]

Well, the list is long, but among those mostly symbolic laws and 'sense of the Senate' do-nothing measures, a few things do emerge.

1) Joe Biden persuaded most Liberals to not really integrate public schools.

Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?

Joe Biden has the worst record on racial justice of any likely Democratic primary candidate. He is also the most popular among black voters.

nymag.com

Joe Biden once called state-mandated school integration “the most racist concept you can come up with,” and Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” He was a staunch opponent of “forced busing” in the 1970s, and leading crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Uncle Joe has described African-American felons as “predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate — and white supremacist senators as his friends. ...​

​

Biden helped kill the most effective policy for improving black educational attainment that America has ever known. ​

​

Joe Biden was for desegregating America’s schools, until his constituents were against it. When the Delaware Democrat launched his first campaign for the Senate in 1972, the Supreme Court had just ruled that the Constitution required policymakers to pursue “the greatest possible degree of actual desegregation” — and that forcing white students to attend schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, was a legitimate means of doing so. Being an enlightened liberal, Biden began his candidacy as an advocate for such policies. He accused Republicans of demagoguing the busing issue, and appealing to white voters’ ugliest instincts.​

​

​

But as his campaign progressed, and Biden discerned that the arc of history was bending toward white backlash, the young candidate bent with it. He became a caricature of a white northern liberal — arguing that forced busing was appropriate for the South (where segregation was the product of racist laws), but unnecessary for the North (where, Biden pretended, it merely reflected the preferences of the white and black communities).​

​

​

Once in the Senate, Biden continued to triangulate, voting for most, though not all, f the anti-busing amendments that came before him. But for his overwhelmingly white constituents, nothing less than massive resistance to busing would suffice. The New Castle County Neighborhood Schools Association booed Biden off the stage at one event in 1974. One year later, the Delaware senator broke ranks with northern liberals— and joined his virulently racist North Carolina colleague Jesse Helms in voting to kneecap all federal efforts to integrate schools, anywhere in the country.​

2) Joe Biden got thousands of blacks imprisoned for minor crimes.

The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are

In hindsight, complicated policy conversations get flattened into stark shades of right and wrong.

www.theatlantic.com

​

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey wheeled on the former vice president, attacking his sponsorship of the 1994 federal crime bill with a roundhouse punch. “There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses,” Booker said, “because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine.” ...​

​

It is true that the bill—which extended the death penalty to 60 new crimes, stiffened sentences, offered states strong financial incentives for building new prisons, and banned a range of assault weapons—helped lead to the wave of mass incarceration that’s resulted in the United States accounting for 25 percent of the world’s prison population.​

​

But Booker’s implication that the law was simply a cynical sop to fearful white voters is at odds with the political realities of the time, when the bill passed with bipartisan support, including the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and with the backing of other black leaders beyond Capitol Hill. This is the second straight presidential election in which the crime bill has loomed as a loaded issue—Hillary Clinton was excoriated from the left in 2016 for her past support—and it will doubtless continue to surface as long as Biden is in the race.​

3) Joe Biden voted to tax Social Security benefits.

VERIFY: Did Joe Biden vote to tax social security benefits twice during his Senate career?

The Verify Team was sent an email, in which a viewer claimed that Joe Biden voted to tax social security benefits two times in his career. This is true.

www.wkyc.com

Did Joe Biden vote to tax Social Security benefits two times in his Senate career, as claimed?​

​

Answer:​

​

Yes. In 1983, Joe Biden joined a bipartisan effort to make 50% of Social Security benefits taxable, for those above a certain income. This new revenue would go towards the Social Security Trust Fund. ​

4) Biden voted for and led the fight for NAFTA and allowing China more access to American economy and businesses.

Will Joe Biden's political record come back to haunt him?

The Democratic front-runner's stances on abortion, war, welfare and trade are under attack.

www.bbc.com

Trade deals​

"Does anybody think that Joe can go to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana or Minnesota and say vote for me, I voted for those terrible trade agreements?" Mr Sanders asked supporters in March. "I don't think so."​

The anti-free trade line worked for Mr Sanders in 2016, when the same criticism of Hillary Clinton helped the senator, a protectionist and a populist, eke out a surprise win in Michigan over his rival.​

Mr Biden has said he stands by his vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which critics say hollowed out manufacturing in the US. However, Mr Biden has argued that he is a "fair trader" who believes that "we should treat other countries in a way they treat us", rather than a "free trader".​

The argument against Mr Biden looks to be less effective for Mr Sanders this time around than four years ago. According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of self-described Democrats now say that Nafta has been beneficial for the US.​

The debate will play out in the general election, however. "Believe me, Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade," Mr Sanders told CNN. "Just looking at the facts - if you're going into the heartland of America... it's hard to make the case, when Trump has made trade such an important part of his agenda."​

5) Biden has always supported credit card companies and is one reason so many are based in Delaware. In 2005 he helped make it very difficult for consumers to get out of credit card debt.

The 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained

A clash over a 2005 bankruptcy bill — and a broader contrast in worldviews.

www.vox.com

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first Democratic 2020 hopeful to take a direct swing at former Vice President Joe Biden since he got into the race, accusing him of being “on the side of the credit companies” in a fight that launched her political career a decade ago.​

​

Warren’s quarrel with Biden isn’t personal. It’s about a 2005 bankruptcy bill he supported as a senator. Warren opposed the bill so vehemently that its passage inspired her transition from a Harvard bankruptcy law professor, who studied middle-class economics, to a senator and now a presidential hopeful.​

​

“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said after an April rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”​

​

The bill made it harder for individuals to file for bankruptcy and get out of debt, a legal change that credit card companies and many major retailers had championed for years. The bill passed Congress with large majorities, but most Democratic senators, including Barack Obama, voted no. Biden voted yes and was widely seen at the time as one of the bill’s major Democratic champions.​

​

Biden, by contrast, saw the bill as an admittedly imperfect but fundamentally sound compromise that he improved by participating in crafting it. By cutting down on bankruptcies, the legislation helped not just credit card companies but also consumers who benefit from lower interest rates. The legislation contained provisions intended to protect low-income households and in part thanks to Biden’s work made some other changes that are favorable to the interests of divorced women and their children.​

​

The Warren-Biden clash is also a window into a disagreement about the meaning of the current moment in Democratic Party politics. Warren wants to challenge a system she saw as fundamentally corrupt long before Trump arose, while Biden pitches a return to normalcy and the kind of politics in which compromise, horse trading, and home state interests are just part of the game.​

Slow Joe is no friend of American working class families or of minority voters.

Nothing good.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Dont forget he got his familysome pretty cushy jobs with huge paychecks .

 

[bottlecap]

Dont forget he got his familysome pretty cushy jobs with huge paychecks .

Yes, he did take care of his family thru outright corruption, getting his son a cushy job with the Ukrainian Oil Company, BURISMA! Hunter Biden had zero experience in the Oil Business, so even the Obama Administration felt it did not look too good.

When the Ukrainian government began investigating the company, Joe Biden had to do something and he did. He threatened to withhold aid unless the Ukrainian government fired its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Although BIDEN would lie about it later, the MSM, even knowing he was guilty, covered it up.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Dont forget he got his familysome pretty cushy jobs with huge paychecks .

Yes, he did take care of his family thru outright corruption, getting his son a cushy job with the Ukrainian Oil Company, BURISMA! Hunter Biden had zero experience in the Oil Business, so even the Obama Administration felt it did not look too good.

When the Ukrainian government began investigating the company, Joe Biden had to do something and he did. He threatened to withhold aid unless the Ukrainian government fired its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Although BIDEN would lie about it later, the MSM, even knowing he was guilty, covered it up.

Well i guess its an accomplishment. Couldnt come up with anything else.

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[marvin martian]

Well, the list is long, but among those mostly symbolic laws and 'sense of the Senate' do-nothing measures, a few things do emerge.

1) Joe Biden persuaded most Liberals to not really integrate public schools.

Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?

Joe Biden has the worst record on racial justice of any likely Democratic primary candidate. He is also the most popular among black voters.

nymag.com

Joe Biden once called state-mandated school integration “the most racist concept you can come up with,” and Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” He was a staunch opponent of “forced busing” in the 1970s, and leading crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Uncle Joe has described African-American felons as “predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate — and white supremacist senators as his friends. ...​

​

Biden helped kill the most effective policy for improving black educational attainment that America has ever known. ​

​

Joe Biden was for desegregating America’s schools, until his constituents were against it. When the Delaware Democrat launched his first campaign for the Senate in 1972, the Supreme Court had just ruled that the Constitution required policymakers to pursue “the greatest possible degree of actual desegregation” — and that forcing white students to attend schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, was a legitimate means of doing so. Being an enlightened liberal, Biden began his candidacy as an advocate for such policies. He accused Republicans of demagoguing the busing issue, and appealing to white voters’ ugliest instincts.​

​

​

But as his campaign progressed, and Biden discerned that the arc of history was bending toward white backlash, the young candidate bent with it. He became a caricature of a white northern liberal — arguing that forced busing was appropriate for the South (where segregation was the product of racist laws), but unnecessary for the North (where, Biden pretended, it merely reflected the preferences of the white and black communities).​

​

​

Once in the Senate, Biden continued to triangulate, voting for most, though not all, f the anti-busing amendments that came before him. But for his overwhelmingly white constituents, nothing less than massive resistance to busing would suffice. The New Castle County Neighborhood Schools Association booed Biden off the stage at one event in 1974. One year later, the Delaware senator broke ranks with northern liberals— and joined his virulently racist North Carolina colleague Jesse Helms in voting to kneecap all federal efforts to integrate schools, anywhere in the country.​

2) Joe Biden got thousands of blacks imprisoned for minor crimes.

The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are

In hindsight, complicated policy conversations get flattened into stark shades of right and wrong.

www.theatlantic.com

​

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey wheeled on the former vice president, attacking his sponsorship of the 1994 federal crime bill with a roundhouse punch. “There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses,” Booker said, “because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine.” ...​

​

It is true that the bill—which extended the death penalty to 60 new crimes, stiffened sentences, offered states strong financial incentives for building new prisons, and banned a range of assault weapons—helped lead to the wave of mass incarceration that’s resulted in the United States accounting for 25 percent of the world’s prison population.​

​

But Booker’s implication that the law was simply a cynical sop to fearful white voters is at odds with the political realities of the time, when the bill passed with bipartisan support, including the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and with the backing of other black leaders beyond Capitol Hill. This is the second straight presidential election in which the crime bill has loomed as a loaded issue—Hillary Clinton was excoriated from the left in 2016 for her past support—and it will doubtless continue to surface as long as Biden is in the race.​

3) Joe Biden voted to tax Social Security benefits.

VERIFY: Did Joe Biden vote to tax social security benefits twice during his Senate career?

The Verify Team was sent an email, in which a viewer claimed that Joe Biden voted to tax social security benefits two times in his career. This is true.

www.wkyc.com

Did Joe Biden vote to tax Social Security benefits two times in his Senate career, as claimed?​

​

Answer:​

​

Yes. In 1983, Joe Biden joined a bipartisan effort to make 50% of Social Security benefits taxable, for those above a certain income. This new revenue would go towards the Social Security Trust Fund. ​

4) Biden voted for and led the fight for NAFTA and allowing China more access to American economy and businesses.

Will Joe Biden's political record come back to haunt him?

The Democratic front-runner's stances on abortion, war, welfare and trade are under attack.

www.bbc.com

Trade deals​

"Does anybody think that Joe can go to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana or Minnesota and say vote for me, I voted for those terrible trade agreements?" Mr Sanders asked supporters in March. "I don't think so."​

The anti-free trade line worked for Mr Sanders in 2016, when the same criticism of Hillary Clinton helped the senator, a protectionist and a populist, eke out a surprise win in Michigan over his rival.​

Mr Biden has said he stands by his vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which critics say hollowed out manufacturing in the US. However, Mr Biden has argued that he is a "fair trader" who believes that "we should treat other countries in a way they treat us", rather than a "free trader".​

The argument against Mr Biden looks to be less effective for Mr Sanders this time around than four years ago. According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of self-described Democrats now say that Nafta has been beneficial for the US.​

The debate will play out in the general election, however. "Believe me, Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade," Mr Sanders told CNN. "Just looking at the facts - if you're going into the heartland of America... it's hard to make the case, when Trump has made trade such an important part of his agenda."​

5) Biden has always supported credit card companies and is one reason so many are based in Delaware. In 2005 he helped make it very difficult for consumers to get out of credit card debt.

The 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained

A clash over a 2005 bankruptcy bill — and a broader contrast in worldviews.

www.vox.com

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first Democratic 2020 hopeful to take a direct swing at former Vice President Joe Biden since he got into the race, accusing him of being “on the side of the credit companies” in a fight that launched her political career a decade ago.​

​

Warren’s quarrel with Biden isn’t personal. It’s about a 2005 bankruptcy bill he supported as a senator. Warren opposed the bill so vehemently that its passage inspired her transition from a Harvard bankruptcy law professor, who studied middle-class economics, to a senator and now a presidential hopeful.​

​

“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said after an April rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”​

​

The bill made it harder for individuals to file for bankruptcy and get out of debt, a legal change that credit card companies and many major retailers had championed for years. The bill passed Congress with large majorities, but most Democratic senators, including Barack Obama, voted no. Biden voted yes and was widely seen at the time as one of the bill’s major Democratic champions.​

​

Biden, by contrast, saw the bill as an admittedly imperfect but fundamentally sound compromise that he improved by participating in crafting it. By cutting down on bankruptcies, the legislation helped not just credit card companies but also consumers who benefit from lower interest rates. The legislation contained provisions intended to protect low-income households and in part thanks to Biden’s work made some other changes that are favorable to the interests of divorced women and their children.​

​

The Warren-Biden clash is also a window into a disagreement about the meaning of the current moment in Democratic Party politics. Warren wants to challenge a system she saw as fundamentally corrupt long before Trump arose, while Biden pitches a return to normalcy and the kind of politics in which compromise, horse trading, and home state interests are just part of the game.​

Slow Joe is no friend of American working class families or of minority voters.

He got filthy rich selling pieces of our country to communists and terrorists.

He also wrote laws that put thousands of black men and women in prison unjustly.

He also associated with and defended KKK members, anti-semites, Holocaust deniers, and domestic terrorists.

He also release thousands of Covid infected illegal immigrants into cities all over the country.

He also filled dozens of concentration camps with tens of thousands of children who were denied food, water, beds, medical care, bathing facilities, and visits from human rights advocates.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

His job all of those years was to get elected and re-elected. Policy is moot.
He’s like a college athlete who majors in eligibility.
Had Delaware been republican and Biden not been catholic, he would have been a lifelong republican and nothing would have changed.

 

[gipper]

His job all of those years was to get elected and re-elected. Policy is moot.
He’s like a college athlete who majors in eligibility.
Had Delaware been republican and Biden not been catholic, he would have been a lifelong republican and nothing would have changed.

Having Don and Joe as presidents proves yet again we live in a failed state...to say nothing of W and O.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

A nasty creepy fucker who voted against average citizens and for Big Banks and financial institutions
for decades. He sucked Barack Obama's dick too.

He used his authority to get his messed up crack head son jobs in China and Ukraine which he has totally
unqualified for. I thought using your government position to enhance and enrich your self and family
was against the law. Apparently not.

Divorced first wife after serious car accident and divorced her while she was in the hospital. Replaced her with the babysitter.

All in all I can't think of a more repugnant American politician. He's all yours democrats.
What a total piece of shit!

 

[eagle7-31]

Well, the list is long, but among those mostly symbolic laws and 'sense of the Senate' do-nothing measures, a few things do emerge.

1) Joe Biden persuaded most Liberals to not really integrate public schools.

Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?

Joe Biden has the worst record on racial justice of any likely Democratic primary candidate. He is also the most popular among black voters.

nymag.com

Joe Biden once called state-mandated school integration “the most racist concept you can come up with,” and Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” He was a staunch opponent of “forced busing” in the 1970s, and leading crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Uncle Joe has described African-American felons as “predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate — and white supremacist senators as his friends. ...​

​

Biden helped kill the most effective policy for improving black educational attainment that America has ever known. ​

​

Joe Biden was for desegregating America’s schools, until his constituents were against it. When the Delaware Democrat launched his first campaign for the Senate in 1972, the Supreme Court had just ruled that the Constitution required policymakers to pursue “the greatest possible degree of actual desegregation” — and that forcing white students to attend schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, was a legitimate means of doing so. Being an enlightened liberal, Biden began his candidacy as an advocate for such policies. He accused Republicans of demagoguing the busing issue, and appealing to white voters’ ugliest instincts.​

​

​

But as his campaign progressed, and Biden discerned that the arc of history was bending toward white backlash, the young candidate bent with it. He became a caricature of a white northern liberal — arguing that forced busing was appropriate for the South (where segregation was the product of racist laws), but unnecessary for the North (where, Biden pretended, it merely reflected the preferences of the white and black communities).​

​

​

Once in the Senate, Biden continued to triangulate, voting for most, though not all, f the anti-busing amendments that came before him. But for his overwhelmingly white constituents, nothing less than massive resistance to busing would suffice. The New Castle County Neighborhood Schools Association booed Biden off the stage at one event in 1974. One year later, the Delaware senator broke ranks with northern liberals— and joined his virulently racist North Carolina colleague Jesse Helms in voting to kneecap all federal efforts to integrate schools, anywhere in the country.​

2) Joe Biden got thousands of blacks imprisoned for minor crimes.

The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are

In hindsight, complicated policy conversations get flattened into stark shades of right and wrong.

www.theatlantic.com

​

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey wheeled on the former vice president, attacking his sponsorship of the 1994 federal crime bill with a roundhouse punch. “There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses,” Booker said, “because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine.” ...​

​

It is true that the bill—which extended the death penalty to 60 new crimes, stiffened sentences, offered states strong financial incentives for building new prisons, and banned a range of assault weapons—helped lead to the wave of mass incarceration that’s resulted in the United States accounting for 25 percent of the world’s prison population.​

​

But Booker’s implication that the law was simply a cynical sop to fearful white voters is at odds with the political realities of the time, when the bill passed with bipartisan support, including the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and with the backing of other black leaders beyond Capitol Hill. This is the second straight presidential election in which the crime bill has loomed as a loaded issue—Hillary Clinton was excoriated from the left in 2016 for her past support—and it will doubtless continue to surface as long as Biden is in the race.​

3) Joe Biden voted to tax Social Security benefits.

VERIFY: Did Joe Biden vote to tax social security benefits twice during his Senate career?

The Verify Team was sent an email, in which a viewer claimed that Joe Biden voted to tax social security benefits two times in his career. This is true.

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Did Joe Biden vote to tax Social Security benefits two times in his Senate career, as claimed?​

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Yes. In 1983, Joe Biden joined a bipartisan effort to make 50% of Social Security benefits taxable, for those above a certain income. This new revenue would go towards the Social Security Trust Fund. ​

4) Biden voted for and led the fight for NAFTA and allowing China more access to American economy and businesses.

Will Joe Biden's political record come back to haunt him?

The Democratic front-runner's stances on abortion, war, welfare and trade are under attack.

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Trade deals​

"Does anybody think that Joe can go to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana or Minnesota and say vote for me, I voted for those terrible trade agreements?" Mr Sanders asked supporters in March. "I don't think so."​

The anti-free trade line worked for Mr Sanders in 2016, when the same criticism of Hillary Clinton helped the senator, a protectionist and a populist, eke out a surprise win in Michigan over his rival.​

Mr Biden has said he stands by his vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which critics say hollowed out manufacturing in the US. However, Mr Biden has argued that he is a "fair trader" who believes that "we should treat other countries in a way they treat us", rather than a "free trader".​

The argument against Mr Biden looks to be less effective for Mr Sanders this time around than four years ago. According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of self-described Democrats now say that Nafta has been beneficial for the US.​

The debate will play out in the general election, however. "Believe me, Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade," Mr Sanders told CNN. "Just looking at the facts - if you're going into the heartland of America... it's hard to make the case, when Trump has made trade such an important part of his agenda."​

5) Biden has always supported credit card companies and is one reason so many are based in Delaware. In 2005 he helped make it very difficult for consumers to get out of credit card debt.

The 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained

A clash over a 2005 bankruptcy bill — and a broader contrast in worldviews.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first Democratic 2020 hopeful to take a direct swing at former Vice President Joe Biden since he got into the race, accusing him of being “on the side of the credit companies” in a fight that launched her political career a decade ago.​

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Warren’s quarrel with Biden isn’t personal. It’s about a 2005 bankruptcy bill he supported as a senator. Warren opposed the bill so vehemently that its passage inspired her transition from a Harvard bankruptcy law professor, who studied middle-class economics, to a senator and now a presidential hopeful.​

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“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said after an April rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”​

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The bill made it harder for individuals to file for bankruptcy and get out of debt, a legal change that credit card companies and many major retailers had championed for years. The bill passed Congress with large majorities, but most Democratic senators, including Barack Obama, voted no. Biden voted yes and was widely seen at the time as one of the bill’s major Democratic champions.​

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Biden, by contrast, saw the bill as an admittedly imperfect but fundamentally sound compromise that he improved by participating in crafting it. By cutting down on bankruptcies, the legislation helped not just credit card companies but also consumers who benefit from lower interest rates. The legislation contained provisions intended to protect low-income households and in part thanks to Biden’s work made some other changes that are favorable to the interests of divorced women and their children.​

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The Warren-Biden clash is also a window into a disagreement about the meaning of the current moment in Democratic Party politics. Warren wants to challenge a system she saw as fundamentally corrupt long before Trump arose, while Biden pitches a return to normalcy and the kind of politics in which compromise, horse trading, and home state interests are just part of the game.​

Slow Joe is no friend of American working class families or of minority voters.

Got re-elected, got rich and so did son Hunter. Other than that......