Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
Joe Biden's Wobbly $2,000 Stimulus Pledge Is a Replay of Obama's 'Public Option' Fail (msn.com)
Why A Teen Says She Doesn’t Feel Her Mother ‘Has Any Right’ To Tell Her What To Do
On January 4, Joe Biden made an unequivocal pledge, telling voters that by electing Democrats to Georgia's senate seats, "you can make an immediate difference in your own lives, the lives of people all across this country because their election will put an end to the block in Washington on that $2,000 stimulus check, that money that will go out the door immediately to people who are in real trouble."
- Biden is pushing $1,400 checks, rather than using his election mandate to demand new, full $2,000 checks.
- Democrats are now suggesting that it could take at least until March to even pass the legislation, even as the economic crisis worsens.
Back then, Barack Obama and Biden had gotten themselves elected in the middle of an economic crisis after promising to pass a public health insurance option. It was a promise as clear and explicit as the $2,000 checks promise is today—their platform was explicit in pledging that "any American will have the opportunity to enroll in the new public plan."
So once again, it is buyers remorse where the progressive elites lied to their constituents just to get in power, then not do what they said they were put in office to do. I guess in 2022, the progs are really going to have to stuff the ballot boxes with fake ballots by the millions, because there are going to be hundreds of millions of US citizens fed up with the progs....By the middle of the year, Obama said: "The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform." His Health and Human Services secretary said that it was "not the essential element" of health care reform.
By the winter, Obama lied, insisting "I didn't campaign on a public option."
And then by 2010, the Obama White House had killed the plan, and Senate Democrats refused to even bring it up for a floor vote when they had the chance. Soon after, voters delivered what Obama called a "shellacking" in the midterm election, effectively foreclosing on the possibility of transformative change during Obama's presidency.