Ari Melber Says Biden Increasingly Sounds Like 'The New Bernie'
By Leia IdlibyApr 6th, 2021, 7:33 pm
MSNBC’s Ari Melber said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden, “at times, can sound a bit like the new Bernie [Sanders]” — addressing the president’s increasingly progressive views throughout his political career.
“Joe Biden has begun his presidency on a more liberal footing than the last two Democratic presidents, which makes this the most progressive start to any presidency in the past 40 years,” Melber said, noting that Biden is “pushing for a cumulative $4 trillion in total spending in his first 100 days.”
Comparing today’s Biden to the Biden of the 1990s, Melber played several clips from his time as a self-described “centrist” senator.
“More cops, more prisons, more physical protection for the people,” he said in one clip from November 1993, later adding, “We have predators on our streets.”
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using that site's own words:
Q. If a Representative or Senator has a low LES or ILES, does that mean that she is not an effective lawmaker?
Not necessarily. As described above, the LES is designed to measure how successful a given Representative or Senator is at moving his or her own legislative agenda items (meaning, the bills that he/she sponsors) through different stages of the legislative process, where those bills are also coded for substantive significance. A relatively low LES results from few introductions or from sponsored bills not progressing particularly far. Likewise, given that an ILES captures how successful a Representative or Senator is at moving bills in a particular issue area, it is quite plausible that a Representative is extremely successful at advancing bills in issue areas that are most important to her, while devoting little attention to bills that engage with issues that are less important to her, leading her to have a high ILES in some issue areas, but not others. Such variance in scores would reflect a Representative’s or Senator’s different issue priorities, rather than effectiveness in lawmaking, per se.
That said, other efforts that may be commonly considered “legislative effectiveness,” such as working behind the scenes to help others’ bills pass, having one’s legislative proposals incorporated into other legislators’ bills (which then advance further in the legislative process), serving as Speaker of the House or party leader, or blocking proposals of opponents, are not included in calculating the LES.
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Their ranking is referring to how a Senator or Representative does getting their OWN bills passed.
Real Effectiveness as a politician involves so much more.
I'm done here. Have a good day.
higher, for instance he was the 13th most effective Dem in the 113th. And this is just counting the Democratic Caucus, many Rethugs have worse scores. There seems no clear pattern either, for all the Dems, Congress to Congress. Bernie is on the longer end multiple times, but certainly not the 2nd lowest overall.
the low end from the 113th Dems for comparative purposes
So I played it safe...
If it's any consolation, in England, "Merkley" really WOULD be pronounced "Markley."
back atcha
Sid
during and after the primaries. Remember, Ari was pushing the tara reade story even after the primary process. Skunk. I don't know why anchors don't think viewers can't tell when they're pushing an agenda. They have certain voice inflections and facial expressions that always give them away. They don't fool me.
I mean, Obama administration wanted an infrastructure plan. But of course, all credit goes to bernie.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/03/29/what-you-need-know-about-president-obamas-plan-improve-american-infrastructure
