Biden catch-all | Final Farewells

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Bobfripp said:
I'm not voting for him ever again!
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Well, Trump's first term did wonders for George W. Bush's popularity and memories of his presidency, and Trump 2.0 may well do similar wonders for Biden's popularity and memories of his presidency. Trump has a way of making even his worst predecessors look better by comparison. Not that I think that Biden did a bad job as president, and in fact I think future historians will overall look favorably on much of his domestic policies.
 
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Biden Signs Defense Bill Despite Objections

“President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion
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President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion despite his objections to language stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children in military families,” NBC Newsreports.
 
Didn’t want to make the Carter memorial about Joe, but for reference:

 
nycfan said:
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I remember when Biden accepted the VP nomination in 08. He said this:

"FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO IS TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING, FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT WHO ARE HONORING THE PLEDGE TO UPHOLD LAW AND ON THE CONSTITUTION, NO LONGER WILL YOU HEAR THE MOST DREADED WORDS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. THE VICE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE IS ON THE PHONE"

[sorry about caps, I cut and pasted from cspan].

And now Liz Cheney gets the medal of freedom. Weird times.
 
Virtue signaling ,maybe? US Steel was once a very important thing in industrial America. Maybe he thought that keeping it out of foreign hands was worth it for the statement it made to the working class. I don't know enough to judge, either, but I'm old enough to remember when that was an iconic name.
 
finesse said:
Virtue signaling ,maybe? US Steel was once a very important thing in industrial America. Maybe he thought that keeping it out of foreign hands was worth it for the statement it made to the working class. I don't know enough to judge, either, but I'm old enough to remember when that was an iconic name.
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I just don’t think there’s a viable way to keep it out of foreign hands. The question is whose hands?
 
lawtig02 said:
I just don’t think there’s a viable way to keep it out of foreign hands. The question is whose hands?
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Don't know.

If that's the reason he did it, it was pure politics and leaves the Dems room to point out whatever happens happened under the Republicans. Not a motive to be proud of but losing elections by not doing that petty little shit gets tiresome.
 


We need more judges but Biden doesn’t want to hand all the appointments to Trump, I assume. Might get something worse in the Super Duper Omnibus Bill the House is concocting. Or nothing at all. I guess we will see.
 
nycfan said:


We need more judges but Biden doesn’t want to hand all the appointments to Trump, I assume. Might get something worse in the Super Duper Omnibus Bill the House is concocting. Or nothing at all. I guess we will see.
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Can't add judgeships via reconciliation. Thune has promised to keep the filibuster. We'll see. Technically, overriding the parliamentarian's every unfavorable determination isn't ending the filibuster, but it is eviscerating it. Which isn't a bad thing, but Thune has promised no changes to the institution. Again, we'll see.

Keeping the filibuster would be silly for Pubs, given that they are heavy favorites to hold the chamber most years for the foreseeable future. Dem control is possible in 26 if Trump fucks things up as badly as we think, but after the mid-term environment of 26, it's going to get harder.
 
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