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In reply to the discussion: Biden's first two years have been nothing short of extraordinary no matter what you may have read [View all]ramblin_dave
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Maybe I have spent too many years (decades?) watching how the sausage is made but the Dems getting it together around the Inflation Reduction Act actually makes me happy and hopeful. Yes, the GOP is unanimous in its uselessness, obstructionism and moral vacuity. But the Dems...
...are finding a way to make it work. They have done it alone with the American Rescue Plan. They have done it all but alone or alone on key judgeships and senior level appointments. They have had a handful of Republicans join on the infrastructure bill.
Yet, here we are in the dog days of a summer in which nothing is supposed to get done and you have this IRA, the CHIPs bill, despite an almost insanely cynical effort at obstruction by the GOP, the burn pit legislation passed. The US approved Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
Credit to @SenSchumer and @SpeakerPelosi for their leadership. Credit to @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema despite all the problems they have caused in the past for coming through when the country needed it. And above all, credit to @POTUS.
Biden's first two years have been nothing short of extraordinary no matter what you may have read or heard. Record job creation. Record low unemployment. Major legislative achievements far beyond what anyone thought was possible. Record judicial appointments.
Restoring leadership abroad w/a remarkable global set of initiatives that have truly reset US foreign policy for a new era. It's not hyperbole. It wasn't flashy. It was certainly unlikely. But day-in and day-out the president and his team have focused on one thing: governing.
So while the GOP hails extremists like Hitler wannabe Viktor Orban and defends Trump and seeks to strip away basic rights and gut democracy, while it celebrates having no agenda and repeatedly chooses to obstruct, Biden and the Dems have just been getting it done.
It's old school. Sometimes it's ugly. Certainly, we all have areas where we wish more was getting done. But what they're doing is a lot. It will make a big difference in millions, even billions, of lives around he planet. And we should be happy about that. Who'd a thunk it?
Maybe I have spent too many years (decades?) watching how the sausage is made but the Dems getting it together around the Inflation Reduction Act actually makes me happy and hopeful. Yes, the GOP is unanimous in its uselessness, obstructionism and moral vacuity. But the Dems...
...are finding a way to make it work. They have done it alone with the American Rescue Plan. They have done it all but alone or alone on key judgeships and senior level appointments. They have had a handful of Republicans join on the infrastructure bill.
Yet, here we are in the dog days of a summer in which nothing is supposed to get done and you have this IRA, the CHIPs bill, despite an almost insanely cynical effort at obstruction by the GOP, the burn pit legislation passed. The US approved Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
Credit to @SenSchumer and @SpeakerPelosi for their leadership. Credit to @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema despite all the problems they have caused in the past for coming through when the country needed it. And above all, credit to @POTUS.
Biden's first two years have been nothing short of extraordinary no matter what you may have read or heard. Record job creation. Record low unemployment. Major legislative achievements far beyond what anyone thought was possible. Record judicial appointments.
Restoring leadership abroad w/a remarkable global set of initiatives that have truly reset US foreign policy for a new era. It's not hyperbole. It wasn't flashy. It was certainly unlikely. But day-in and day-out the president and his team have focused on one thing: governing.
So while the GOP hails extremists like Hitler wannabe Viktor Orban and defends Trump and seeks to strip away basic rights and gut democracy, while it celebrates having no agenda and repeatedly chooses to obstruct, Biden and the Dems have just been getting it done.
It's old school. Sometimes it's ugly. Certainly, we all have areas where we wish more was getting done. But what they're doing is a lot. It will make a big difference in millions, even billions, of lives around he planet. And we should be happy about that. Who'd a thunk it?
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Biden's first two years have been nothing short of extraordinary no matter what you may have read [View all]
kpete
Aug 2022
OP
I have said this before about us vs. the situation of Joe Biden and the Congressional Democrats
DFW
Aug 2022
#25
I have seen several good lists of Biden's success, but am having trouble finding...
FailureToCommunicate
Aug 2022
#33
Gee a former senior Senator with decades of experience is better than TFG's zero gov experience.
IbogaProject
Aug 2022
#35