To all those (mostly cable "pundits") who are doing their year-end assessment....

[George II]

....of Biden's Administration.

DO NOT FORGET that President Biden was the first President in decades, if not centuries, who did not have an orderly transition or get an ounce of help from the previous administration.

It's good that he was a Senator for 35 years and Vice President for 8 years, but basically he began his Presidency cold, not to mention a raging pandemic and historic unemployment.

[CrispyQ]

1. +1!

The bastards will never give a dem president the credit they deserve. Never.

I'm aghast at how they are reporting on Biden & the dems, in general. I realize the media leans right, but this is not like any other time in our history. Do they think if the country goes full on authoritarian that it will be business as usual for them? They must, cuz they are still in it for the GOP, in spite of the past two years.

[flying rabbit]

2. True.

[Botany]

3. Joe has been the best President of my lifetime. The media has been out to get him since June.

Joe is doing a great job, he has gotten a lot of "stuff" done, he has had to deal with an un American
turn coat in Manchin who works for the fossil fuel companies, and Congressional Republicans who see
their one and only job as stopping President Biden from getting anything done including stopping the
pandemic.


And just for protecting these areas alone President Biden will be in my mind one of the greatest Presidents ever:

President Obama's N. Atlantic Marine Monuments (protects fish stocks and whales)




Chaco Canyon in New Mexico



Bears Ears & Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah



Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil and gas development



Tongass Rain Forest in S.E. Alaska



The Cooper River Watershed and Bristol Bay in Alaska



And don't forget he and Jill now have a puppy called Commander.

[brer cat]

4. +++

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Especially Chaco Canyon. That's a particularly unique treasure. . . . nt

[bahboo]

14. I was just thinking seeing that picture...

that I gotta get my ass there....

[Botany]

17. Until the late 1700s or early 1800s the structures there were the largest ever built in N. America

.... and I think the people who built those structures were the descendants of some of the cliff
dwelling people from earlier times.

The stone still fits together and stands 900 to 1,200 years after it was built.

[c-rational]

9. +1,000,000

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. +1

[empedocles]

12. Great post. Worth at least 8000 words. TY

[Botany]

18. No words can describe @ what Joe protected in the Copper River Watershed and Bristol Bay Alaska

The largest run of wild salmon in the world.

And he did that in his 1st day in office too.

[Jon King]

6. Unfortunately it is working, latest batch of approval polls at 39-40%

No use putting our heads in the sand. The blame for inflation, Covid, lack of available testing, is being put squarely on the administration by a majority of voters. We have quite a battle ahead of us in the midterms.

[calimary]

7. And REPEAT! BECAUSE it's necessary!

Stand by Biden.

Back Biden Better.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Damn right!

[hay rick]

10. But they need to straddle the midpoint between...

"Liberals" and the party of treason, sabotage, obstruction, and TFG's latest resentment.

[GoCubsGo]

13. What I have seen of them so far has been beyond disgustinig.

These assholes are smearing Biden left and right, because he hasn't fulfilled all of his campaign promises. WTF? He's only been in for eleven months. Every other president was given the full four years of their term. Biden has accomplished far more than most presidents have in their first year, and under some of the worst circumstances, and with not only no help from his predecessor, but outright obstruction. But, he's doing a bad job because they got their golden ticket, and their flying glass elevator, and a trained squirrel, but not the Oompa Loompa. Just sickening.

[George II]

16. What got me going was two of Jonathan Capehart's (he was NOT doing it) guest going on about....

....how Biden's first year was a failure.

They were Tara Setmeyer and some guy named Bresnahan. His third guest set them straight.

[GoCubsGo]

19. That's part of what I had in mind with my post.

His third guest was Renee Graham of the Boston Globe. I came in late, and caught part of the segment where Capeheart asked them to grade Biden, so far. Setmeyer gave him a B+, while Graham gave him a C+. A C+??? Give me an effin' break! I turned it off at that point. It's like that on other shows, too.

Tara Setmeyer is a Lincoln Project Republican, so it doesn't really surprise me when she says that kind of stuff. I never cared for her.

[George II]

20. I missed the introductions, only heard her referred to as Renee, so didn't want to misidentify her..

...I knew the other two beforehand.

I thought Graham countered Setmeyer and Bresnahan and was more positive, but again only caught parts of it and didn't hear the irrelevant scores.

Overall it was one of the more disappointing segments I've seen on Capehart's show.

[Ohioboy]

15. Exactly!

Biden did the best he could with the mess Trump left him. Just one example is how he was left with the Trump- brokered conditions for getting out of Afghanistan, in which Trump made a deal with the Taliban without including the Afghan Government.

[mopinko]

21. i'm glad you mentioned that transition bullshit.

nobody has talked about that, obviously overshadowed by 1/6, but i'd bet my farm that a whole lots of crimes happened.
besides greasing the skids for the insurrection.

lord only knows how many of them burrowed in, and have yet to be dislodged.
like at doj, i suspect.