Robert Reich:Convicted or not, Trump is history - it's Biden who's changing America

[pnwmom]

While most of official Washington has been focused on the Senate impeachment trial, another part of Washington is preparing the most far-ranging changes in American social policy in a generation.

Congress is moving ahead with Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, which expands healthcare and unemployment benefits and contains one of the most ambitious efforts to reduce child poverty since the New Deal. Right behind it is Biden’s plan for infrastructure and jobs.

. . . . Trump has left Republicans badly fractured and on the defensive. The party is imploding. Since the Capitol attack on 6 January, growing numbers of voters have deserted it. State and county committees are becoming wackier by the day. Big business no longer has a home in the crackpot GOP.

This political void is allowing Biden and the Democrats, who control the White House and both houses of Congress, to respond boldly to the largest social and economic crisis since the Great Depression.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/14/trump-impeachment-biden-american-rescue-plan-robert-reich?fbclid=IwAR0N1KG1JRW4BQx_pxfVa1AvOopjEGBQbrRYPIw7-rS4LzXVZ02hwobyv2A

[XanaDUer2]

1. k n rec'd nt

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Absolutely. Suck the oxygen out of any trump forums he may try...he's screwed up the GOP

and you can tell. Let them (the fractured GOP) fix their own problems and quit blaming everybody else except themselves for their issues and/or problems. They alone, bought all of the crap down on themselves, and they are still doing 'it' to themselves. I predict that they'll continue to fracture apart, a window of opportunity for us. Pres. Biden is going about his business as commander in chief, and he's done more in the month or so, than rump did in one year (what I've heard). I'm not surprised. Someone w/ the experience Pres. Biden has in governing?

My best wishes to the Biden administration. Keep at it and ignore the naysayers.

[leftieNanner]

3. This is good news - but

Let's hope Mitch McConnell can be convinced to cooperate. We need to pass these bills into law to make people's lives better.

[pnwmom]

11. We're doing much of it through reconciliation, which won't require McConnell's assistance. nt

[sfstaxprep]

4. I Love Robert Reich A Great Deal, But He's Wrong On This One

He always is optimistic, something I lack, but lately he's been wrong more than right.

He's an honorable man, and believes there is still Honor in this country. As evidenced by yesterday, there is not.

[pnwmom]

5. I bet last summer you didn't think Biden would win and that we would carry Georgia. n/t

[sfstaxprep]

6. No, I Felt Very Confident Biden Would Win

I did not think there was any chance it would be remotely close. I thought Biden/Harris would Crush Drumpf.

I did not expect GA to go our way, I will very much admit that.

What I wanted most of all, was for 1 of the following to lose: Turtle, Collins, Graham. Instead we're stuck with all of them for 6 more years.

[pnwmom]

8. At least Collins voted to convict. n/t

[TwilightZone]

12. " As evidenced by yesterday, there is not."

More people voted to convict Trump than acquit him, including 7 Republicans when many people expected there to be none.

You keep blaming everyone for everything as if we're all to blame for every bad thing Republicans do. It's curious.

[sfstaxprep]

13. I Blamed Nobody

I would have preferred the House to call witnesses, but I sincerely believe that they would have made Zero difference. I think that belief is in line with the reasoning they used, so I don't see how that is placing blame.

If I want to blame anybody, it would be the 43 Traitors who refused to do what was right for America. I take that, the fact Drumpf got 74 Million votes, and the fact a large # of people show no signs of changing, EVER, as an indication of what this country is up against.

When the Democrats cannot use Facts, Reality, the Law, the Constitution, or ANY aspect of common intelligence and decency, to convict one of the World's Most Evil persons, let alone leader, to come along in the last 100 years, then I feel we're screwed.

What I was wrong about, was the thought the November victory would have been significant enough, to render that Slimeball meaningless going forward. Instead, we not only got January 6, but also the complicit approval by 90% of the repub party, of what occurred, and Very well could have occurred, on that day.

There is no blame for our side. We have decent leaders on our side. We have Facts on our side. That there is no compromise, no reasoning with, no middle ground to be reached with the other side, is what makes it seem so hopeless.

If I were to place blame anywhere, I'd blame America. That 2/3rds could not be achieved, in condemning a fucking Violent Insurrection, which could have caused the deaths of Multiple elected officials, NOT NAMED DRUMPF, shows that as a whole, and not as individuals, we're a pathetic country, filled with Millions of Pathetic people. And each passing minute, I see no way past that reality.

But back to your point about blaming "everyone," that is far from the case. Our side was the right side, and did our best. The game was rigged.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. We need those State and county offices. The American Rescue Plan will help with that.

[fishwax]

9. I feel like the midterms are going to be ever so important

we'll have the opportunity to get a couple of things through in these first two years, but the republicans are going to block a lot of it. We've got to be mobilizing now to make clear to voters where the responsibility for the victories really is and to make sure republican candidates are accountable for every failure and obstruction they put up.

[Dorian Gray]

10. I really

love this kind of positivity and hope to god that it's true.

[Cha]

14. Wow.. that's Nice from Reich!