The Joe Biden Presidency I :: Hallelujah!

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Since Friday, or maybe Saturday, when the deal was clearly close, I haven't seen anything negative about Biden (or the Democrats). It has all been about whether McCarthy could convince his party to vote for the deal, and it really looks like several Reps are angry and wining and willing to crush the deal. But once it clears the committee, it's good.

 

Well done.

I was talking about MTG.

 

This is an interesting thread about GOP's ongoing failure (so far) to destroy the safety net.

Trump has created an even more difficult dynamic for elite GOP policy goals, because MAGA voters want to protect social security as their top priority. Ditto raising taxes on corporations and rich people has broad bi-partisan support.

I actually suspect the GOP would end the filibuster next time they have power, in order to pass their whole agenda in one go, and likely just attempt to end democracy.

The failed 2005 social security privatization is a key antecedent here. The lesson it taught Mitch McConnell is that conservative spending goals could only be achieved in a crisis environment that forced Democrats to vote for them, thus providing political cover to the GOP... https://t.co/PoIelC7kdq

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 31, 2023

 

The worst part is her behaviour harms other victims who need to be taken seriously

 

I was willing to giver her the benefit of the doubt at the time. But that lasted all of 3 days, or maybe a week, after it was clear she was not bringing any serious evidence, nobody was really backing her up, and Biden had substantial support. In the end, I got the impression she was being manipulated. Not sure if I ever said that here.

And I fully agree that her behavior harmed real victims.

Ugh, this is the stuff that needs to come out AFTER the bill has been signed, not before. This just puts an incentive on the Reps working harder to crater it.

[edit - I mean the reporting, not the the CBO report.]

 

Yeah. I'm skeptical of grand conspiracies so I wasn't really on board with Russia Everywhere All at Once, and I know I pushed back on Jitty a lot in those days. Still skeptical about grand conspiracies, but the Russian conspiracy makes Watergate look like a quaint affair.

I knew about Young. Had flashbacks to Michael Hyatt on the West Wing.

 

It's gonna pass. Got by Chip Roy, has enough support in the House that Dems can join, and is sensible enough for the Senate.

 

We have the 'conspiracy' set out in all it's gory detail these days via Mueller, Weismann, Strzok, Browder, WAPO, NYT etc etc etc

The only thing we don't know, thanks to Trump's obstruction of justice, is exactly how explicit it was.

The trouble with conspiracies, and especially involving nation states, is they don't exactly write down a contract. But what we do know, is that the Trump campaign was penetrated on multiple levels by agents of Russian intelligence and that being aware of the attack on the US, Trump publicly encouraged Putin to continue it.

The fact that he did it openly is ironic when you consider the 'hoax' crowd.

 

Browder's book is excellent on this point. Back in 15/16 Washington was awash in Russia cash and operatives. So basically Putin was doing a lot of work to benefit Putin, and in particular that involved supporting anyone who might oppose the Magnitsky act and sanctions.

I think the result of that work is a lot of useful idiots like Reade.

I've said it before, but this is why the propaganda of the likes of Mate, Greenwald, Taibbi, all the way up to Tucker poisons a lot of heads.