So, what happened to Biden's call for unity?

[Synthaholic]

Biden Still Riding High Amid Infrastructure, Tax-Hike Push: IBD/TIPP

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Less than three months ago, President Joe Biden stood in front of the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots and delivered his inaugural address. He called for unity, and Americans who see a politically fractured country welcomed it. He could have then put together an agenda that would have accomplished many of his goals while also helping heal the country. On COVID-19, infrastructure and other matters, there was a road to garnering massive bipartisan support. We focus a lot on disagreements, but in each of these areas, average citizens share a broad consensus that Biden could have reached.

Oddly, after dedicating his inauguration to national unity, Biden has abandoned the pursuit entirely.

Biden pushed through a thoroughly partisan COVID-19 bill. The lockdowns smashed the livelihoods of many Americans. There was broad bipartisan consensus to provide further relief to small businesses and individual Americans. There was also support for further funding to speed vaccine deployment. By focusing on these core COVID-19-related areas, Biden could have achieved the first major bipartisan success in many years.

A group of 10 influential Republicans approached him with such a package. Biden rejected them and instead signed the most expensive spending bill in U.S. history, without a single Republican vote. This $1.9 trillion monstrosity delayed relief for average Americans by weeks in order to include non-COVID-19 related pork. It even changed the formula for aid to state and local governments to favor larger blue states over smaller red states.

Furthermore, Biden’s positions on voting and elections are not only partisan but corrosive. Biden, like all Democrats and Republicans, believes that looser voting rules help Democrats. Democrats and their media allies therefore scream about disenfranchisement, racism and voter suppression in the face of even the most reasonable proposals.

This debate has come to a head over Georgia’s new voting laws. Georgia has endured two consecutive election cycles fraught with accusations of foul play. Former Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams still insists her 2018 race was stolen. Former President Donald Trump similarly insists he was robbed. Putting aside the merits of either claim, confidence in our elections is essential.
[ME: Three cycles if you count the Russian Collusion charge that the democrats advanced for 3 effing years.]

It is not just reasonable but necessary to take a close look at Georgia’s voting laws — but Biden is not engaging in reasonable debate. He immediately blasted the law as “Jim Crow on steroids.” It’s about as divisive a charge as can be made. Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in schools, restaurants, hospitals and even marriage. They were completely antithetical to the ideals of our country. It’s hard to envision anything as destructive to the cause of national unity as comparing election security to racial segregation.

Biden provided three main arguments. First, he said the new law in Georgia was “sick” and “un-American” because it ended voting at 5 p.m., when working people were just getting off work. But that’s false. Voting in Georgia is open until 7 p.m., and anyone in line by then is entitled to vote. The new law made no changes to that rule. Biden was so wrong that even The Washington Post’s fact-checkers gave him four “Pinocchios” — their worst score. The Post explained that “the law did make some changes to early voting. But experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.”

Second, Biden claimed the Georgia law prohibited giving water to people waiting in line to vote. Here, again, the president was not telling the truth; the Georgia law allows polling officials to provide water. What the law prohibits is interested parties giving gifts of any kind (including food or water) to try to influence voters in line. Georgia’s secretary of state justified this restriction based on numerous cases of “line warming.” Examples include a candidate giving out pizza to influence voters in line within restricted voting areas designed to be free from campaigning.

Finally, Biden attacked the Georgia law for requiring photo IDs to vote. Democrats love to claim ID requirements are racist, but the argument is hard to defend. Georgia offers free IDs to any resident. Thirty-five states have some form of ID requirement for voting. Allowing voting without ID significantly increases the chances or perception of fraud. And most importantly, IDs are required for numerous activities in day-to-day life. To assert that black people are somehow incapable of procuring them is belittling and racist.

PATEL: What Happened To Biden’s Unity Agenda?

Joe Biden promised unity in his inaugural address, but his actions on infrastructure and the Georgia election law show that he has no desire to foster unity.

dailycaller.com

The Infrastructure Bill currently in the works is another example of no attempt at unity. From the start Biden and the Democrats stuffed it with all sorts of progressive liberal stuff. Biden could pass a bill to fix bridges and roads, and even provide broadband internet, with massive bipartisan support. Instead, he’s proposing a multitrillion-dollar spending plan filled with partisan, noninfrastructure goals. He’s using the popularity of infrastructure investing to shoehorn a left-wing agenda into the bill.

The saddest part is Biden never even gave a unity agenda a chance. Our country needs the healing he promised. Biden delivers the opposite.

We got lip service. That was it, the democrats said 'here's what we want and if you don't support it we'll pass it anyway through reconciliation and blame you for being obstructionist'. That ain't my idea of unity.

He learned just how much today's Republicans hate the American people. If it does not benefit the weathy, they are not interested.

The 80's called. They want their canards back.
Republican party is now the party of the working class and voiceless.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Who did they ask?
The Hill subscribers??

 

[JWBooth]

So, what happened to Biden's call for unity?
Fuck him.

 

[Mac1958]

Biden Still Riding High Amid Infrastructure, Tax-Hike Push: IBD/TIPP

It's damn nice to have a President favored by a majority of the country.

It's been while, but we made it.

 

[Synthaholic]

Who did they ask?
The Hill subscribers??

The Hill is Center-Right media, so you had better hope not.

 

[Synthaholic]

Biden Still Riding High Amid Infrastructure, Tax-Hike Push: IBD/TIPP

It's damn nice to have a President favored by a majority.

It's been while, but we made it.

Donny Douchebag never cracked 50%. Not once.

 

[Crepitus]

Less than three months ago, President Joe Biden stood in front of the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots and delivered his inaugural address. He called for unity, and Americans who see a politically fractured country welcomed it. He could have then put together an agenda that would have accomplished many of his goals while also helping heal the country. On COVID-19, infrastructure and other matters, there was a road to garnering massive bipartisan support. We focus a lot on disagreements, but in each of these areas, average citizens share a broad consensus that Biden could have reached.

Oddly, after dedicating his inauguration to national unity, Biden has abandoned the pursuit entirely.

Biden pushed through a thoroughly partisan COVID-19 bill. The lockdowns smashed the livelihoods of many Americans. There was broad bipartisan consensus to provide further relief to small businesses and individual Americans. There was also support for further funding to speed vaccine deployment. By focusing on these core COVID-19-related areas, Biden could have achieved the first major bipartisan success in many years.

A group of 10 influential Republicans approached him with such a package. Biden rejected them and instead signed the most expensive spending bill in U.S. history, without a single Republican vote. This $1.9 trillion monstrosity delayed relief for average Americans by weeks in order to include non-COVID-19 related pork. It even changed the formula for aid to state and local governments to favor larger blue states over smaller red states.

Furthermore, Biden’s positions on voting and elections are not only partisan but corrosive. Biden, like all Democrats and Republicans, believes that looser voting rules help Democrats. Democrats and their media allies therefore scream about disenfranchisement, racism and voter suppression in the face of even the most reasonable proposals.

This debate has come to a head over Georgia’s new voting laws. Georgia has endured two consecutive election cycles fraught with accusations of foul play. Former Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams still insists her 2018 race was stolen. Former President Donald Trump similarly insists he was robbed. Putting aside the merits of either claim, confidence in our elections is essential.
[ME: Three cycles if you count the Russian Collusion charge that the democrats advanced for 3 effing years.]

It is not just reasonable but necessary to take a close look at Georgia’s voting laws — but Biden is not engaging in reasonable debate. He immediately blasted the law as “Jim Crow on steroids.” It’s about as divisive a charge as can be made. Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in schools, restaurants, hospitals and even marriage. They were completely antithetical to the ideals of our country. It’s hard to envision anything as destructive to the cause of national unity as comparing election security to racial segregation.

Biden provided three main arguments. First, he said the new law in Georgia was “sick” and “un-American” because it ended voting at 5 p.m., when working people were just getting off work. But that’s false. Voting in Georgia is open until 7 p.m., and anyone in line by then is entitled to vote. The new law made no changes to that rule. Biden was so wrong that even The Washington Post’s fact-checkers gave him four “Pinocchios” — their worst score. The Post explained that “the law did make some changes to early voting. But experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.”

Second, Biden claimed the Georgia law prohibited giving water to people waiting in line to vote. Here, again, the president was not telling the truth; the Georgia law allows polling officials to provide water. What the law prohibits is interested parties giving gifts of any kind (including food or water) to try to influence voters in line. Georgia’s secretary of state justified this restriction based on numerous cases of “line warming.” Examples include a candidate giving out pizza to influence voters in line within restricted voting areas designed to be free from campaigning.

Finally, Biden attacked the Georgia law for requiring photo IDs to vote. Democrats love to claim ID requirements are racist, but the argument is hard to defend. Georgia offers free IDs to any resident. Thirty-five states have some form of ID requirement for voting. Allowing voting without ID significantly increases the chances or perception of fraud. And most importantly, IDs are required for numerous activities in day-to-day life. To assert that black people are somehow incapable of procuring them is belittling and racist.

PATEL: What Happened To Biden’s Unity Agenda?

Joe Biden promised unity in his inaugural address, but his actions on infrastructure and the Georgia election law show that he has no desire to foster unity.

dailycaller.com

The Infrastructure Bill currently in the works is another example of no attempt at unity. From the start Biden and the Democrats stuffed it with all sorts of progressive liberal stuff. Biden could pass a bill to fix bridges and roads, and even provide broadband internet, with massive bipartisan support. Instead, he’s proposing a multitrillion-dollar spending plan filled with partisan, noninfrastructure goals. He’s using the popularity of infrastructure investing to shoehorn a left-wing agenda into the bill.

The saddest part is Biden never even gave a unity agenda a chance. Our country needs the healing he promised. Biden delivers the opposite.

We got lip service. That was it, the democrats said 'here's what we want and if you don't support it we'll pass it anyway through reconciliation and blame you for being obstructionist'. That ain't my idea of unity.

You're incorrect. President Joe has tried to enlist republican support and input at every turn. They have refused to cooperate or compromise. Unity does not mean he lets the republicans rule the capitol.

 

[Manonthestreet]

 

[Synthaholic]

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Why would we want to boycott China?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

LOL....we have a president that supposedly garnered 80 million votes yet they have to build a wall and run the military personel at that wall through a loyalty test.
Libs are fucken insane.

 

[excalibur]

BTW That poll was from weeks ago, February 23-24.

I'm sure though that you and many other dummies think the chaos at the border is good work by Traitor Joe©™. And that the flooding of American towns and cities with thousands of pf illegals who even if tested for COVID and tested positive are nonetheless allowed to travel and travel without ID. Yes, that is surely something to celebrate.

 

[excalibur]

Donny Douchebag never cracked 50%. Not once.

Well, and in spite of your TDS Fueled© hate, he had 24/7/365 non-stop attacks, lies, and fake news from the MSM. He wasn't even given a honeymoon by the cancerous media.

 

[Turtlesoup]

He is succeeding wildly. He is uniting the country. Just like he said he would.

Yeah-that's why they feel a need to have giant fences with barb put up around our corrupt pols and take away citizens guns---its because biden is "uniting" the country..........

Maybe uniting the people to hate him----but nothing else

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Anyone who calls for unity and then meets Mitch McConnell changes their mind

You can not have unity when the other side even refuses to listen and truly negotiate...

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Anyone who calls for unity and then meets Mitch McConnell changes their mind

You can not have unity when the other side even refuses to listen and truly negotiate...

I am writing about McConnell and not Biden!

 

[rightwinger]

Anyone who calls for unity and then meets Mitch McConnell changes their mind

You can not have unity when the other side even refuses to listen and truly negotiate...

Mitch s back in his “Obama must fail” mode
There will be no compromise from Republicans

 

[Synthaholic]

BTW That poll was from weeks ago, February 23-24.

I'm sure though that you and many other dummies think the chaos at the border is good work by Traitor Joe©™. And that the flooding of American towns and cities with thousands of pf illegals who even if tested for COVID and tested positive are nonetheless allowed to travel and travel without ID. Yes, that is surely something to celebrate.

Who gives a shit? You watch the polls. I'll watch America get stronger.

 

[Synthaholic]

Donny Douchebag never cracked 50%. Not once.

Well, and in spite of your TDS Fueled© hate, he had 24/7/365 non-stop attacks, lies, and fake news from the MSM. He wasn't even given a honeymoon by the cancerous media.

WHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Synthaholic]

BTW That poll was from weeks ago, February 23-24.

I'm sure though that you and many other dummies think the chaos at the border is good work by Traitor Joe©™. And that the flooding of American towns and cities with thousands of pf illegals who even if tested for COVID and tested positive are nonetheless allowed to travel and travel without ID. Yes, that is surely something to celebrate.

Brand spanking new.

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