With his porkulous success now safely stowed away and in the rear view mirror, Biden is looking forward. So what does he envision?:
Biden will go for a massive tax increase, with various components hitting the economy in a variety of strategic locations. Biden needs the money to pay for all the programs he is contemplating.
Republican support? Fuggetaboutid. Biden will ram everything he can through the Senate via budget reconciliation. Do not ignore here Democrat political genius, the sort Republicans on their best day are unable to summon:
Biden knows he is on a short rope. The crap he is pulling on the border alone will be enough to sink him in next year’s elections. And many of his other wildly liberal policies are almost equally unpopular.
But it does not matter and therein lies the genius:
This is because whatever Biden is able to ram through now will stand for the next four years. Sure Republicans likely will control the Senate early in 2023, and quite likely even the House. But those Republican margins will be insufficient to overcome a Biden (or Harris) veto when a Republican Congress attempts to put right the catastrophe Biden is cooking up right now. All of Biden’s current, horribly wrongheaded, legislation will stand firm until at least 2024, and he knows it.
Compare this effective (for them) Democrat approach to governance with what happened early in 2017 when Republicans had all the power and squandered it like the jackasses they most assuredly are.
The party of pork has bought back their favorite tool for corruption after being banned for a decade by the Republicans. Earmarks enable unrelated payoffs to be inserted into legislation, thereby allowing the politician in question to receive unrelated payoffscampaign contributions from the policy’s beneficiaries in their district.
Credit to this CA Democratic Congresswoman for calling out her “aspiring to be more corrupt” Congressional colleagues on this move.
Every member of Congress owes it to the public to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars. Accordingly, a decade ago, Congress halted the process of “earmarking” legislation. It worked as you might imagine: Members of Congress would figuratively fold the corner of a page in a spending bill to mark the spot where they would insert funding for hand-picked projects to benefit their districts, not the entire country.
House leaders, however, announced last month that they are bringing earmarks back. While there are new rules to accompany the process and a new branding effort, pork-barrel spending should remain banned. I refuse to participate in this process.
Biden & his cohorts are destroying our good life. Republican Senators & House Reps have got to get together & begin to fight a better war.
I don’t understand how so many democrats can be so stupid.
Folks, look around & see a socialist society beginning to ramp up… All for all!!
No one really has anything, A crumb for everyone!
Except we all know the Russian story (maybe not everyone knows). My DH & I visited Russia over 30 years ago. We were watched every moment. We could not leave our hotel & just walk around. I looked out my hotel window & watched a little old lady sweeping the street below. I believe there are many changes now.
But Biden & follower’s want to follow, with a socialist agenda. (Lets just give it a try)
Ho, boy, is this ever gonna be new fodder for all the Trump haters:
Last summer Trump contracted for 800,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, agreeing to pay regardless outcomes having to do with safety and efficacy. It was the only way he could induce the manufacturers to go “balls out” so we would have a vaccine at the earliest possible time. Trump’s risky deal is what put the warp into “warp speed”.
Fast forward to the present and obviously today we know a whole lot more than it was possible for Trump to know last summer. Part of Trump’s bet has paid off. We have 500,000 does of vaccine, from three different manufacturers, which are enabling us to lead the world when it comes to vaccinations. However, and this is where they’re gonna tar and feather Trump:
We also own 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, bought and paid for at the direction of Trump. And you just know the Trump haters, while completely ignoring the 500,000 doses of good vaccine he bought elsewhere, are gonna focus on those 300,000 AZ doses and blame Trump for being an idiot and wasting all that money.
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It is amusing to look on as Biden seeks to take credit for any of this. That J&J collaboration with Merck, for example, was worked out by the Trump team last year. J&J knew early they simply lacked the manufacturing capacity to produce as much vaccine as Trump wanted. The Merck deal ensued.
It is so funny watching as Biden and his lying Democrat mainstream media propaganda toadies try to take credit for something Trump worked out many months ago.
Are people blaming Trump for wasting money on the Az vaccine?
I have a major dislike for the guy, but the big pre-commitment to all of the practical vaccine options was pretty much one of the only things he did right.
The Trump “warp speed” covid 19 vaccine will be considered a life saving epoch of his 4 year tenure. You call it the only good thing of the Trump presidency.
I beg to differ. Think about the Biden “tear down the wall” & open border presidency. Horrible things happening to children trying to illegally enter the USA.
Biden is the only one that can take the credit for this failure. It’s going to make him famous.
So at least I would say that President Trump had a great contract with the Mexican President. Mexico would hold the folks on their side until those people could be processed. More humanitarian than what is happening to those children today.
We all remember the call of democrats about President Trump. They are ripping babies from the parents arms. The children are held in cages.
If you google “Trump AstraZeneca vaccine” you will see there are exactly zero people blaming him for it, even if you google “Trump blamed for AstraZeneca vaccine”… nothing.
I liked your post. But I have to take issue with the above. This is because:
In “Biden world” what is happening now at the border is a raging success, and not a failure at all. Now of course I agree with you that, in reality, Biden’s border mess is a monumental failure.
But the people who voted for Biden actually voted for this. Biden wants this catastrophe on the border to use as a lever to obtain the new immigration laws he is seeking. He WANTS the chaos and the depravity. Biden wants to legalize millions of new Democrat voters . . er, wait . . I mean illegal aliens. He even wants his new voters to obtain a “path to citizenship”.
Biden wants to populate even further all those sanctuary cities and states, placing them solidly in the Democrat camp for generations to come.
The march to socialism/Marxism is a long one. Biden already has our country well on its way. And the Biden voters are exhaultant.
1.“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
2.“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ”
3.“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
4.“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”
5.“Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.”
6.“Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.”
7.“You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”
8.“The American people are not undertaxed, the government in Washington is overfed.”
9.“Whenever we lower the tax rates, our entire nation is better off.”
Sheldon Whitehouse is every bit the pipsqueak Senator from an unimportant pipsqueak state, Rhode Island, that his pretentious name itself would suggest. I have seen that guy in action on TV and marvelled at how thoroughly he has mastered the role of a**hole.
Whitehouse is the perfect, the quintessential, the consummate Democrat.
Such states as those are populated by real, traditional, red blooded Americans . . . not sniveling, disgusting, worthless socialist/Marxist New England crybabies.
