Thank you, Fern. I agree. I find President Biden to be way too cautious as he continues to 'namby pamby' nearly everything he does. His recent statement in which he put down #45 was excellent, but is it was at least 365 days way too f*#king late! He leans too far right on many issues. When will he ever learn that trying to compromise wit…
Thank you, Fern. I agree. I find President Biden to be way too cautious as he continues to 'namby pamby' nearly everything he does. His recent statement in which he put down #45 was excellent, but is it was at least 365 days way too f*#king late! He leans too far right on many issues. When will he ever learn that trying to compromise with a party led by an autocrat will never work? Somebody should make a loud recording that Biden will not be able to shut off as he goes to bed that tells him to get his fellow democrats to eliminate the filibuster before the party likely loses the House and perhaps the Senate in the 2022 election. Is he trying to emulate Obama's first term when that president lost control of both the House and the Senate after two years?
I think you misunderstand Biden. I don't see caution in his activities. I see action. He has accomplished with the help of Congress more than any President in recent history. But if there were a way for him to "convince" Sinema and Manchin to become de-facto Democrats, I am sure he would have exercised that magic by now.
I share your frustration (and Fern's). But if you have a path, a sentence, a paragraph, a message, a form of cajoling or any form of political pressure that you think Biden could lay on these two spoilers to make a difference... to get voting rights passed...please share it with us. Specifically, what should he do?
While I despise Manchin and Sinema, I think we need to recognize that there are 50 Republican Senators who stand in the way of passing voting rights. Let's not let them off the hook. We need to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them as well. The cowards didn't even show up at the Capitol on Thursday. Let's give them the publicity that they so richly deserve. It's not...nor should it be...only up to the Democrats.
agree. What's missing in this conversation is the responsibility of all of us, the American people, to work before and after every election to keep our voices raised and our bodies out there in front our elected representatives
As I have read somewhere, Sinema has been much more of a liberal in the past, and the Dems may be able to get her to vote 'Yea." However, for coal baron Manchin, I have little hope of converting his pro fossil fuel stance, since he makes oodles of money from other coal companies to line his pockets and do what Amway dealers are always told to do, buy a new yacht, a mansion, another fancy automobile, etc. Back in the 1970s, I sold Amway for a while and soon learned that Rich DeVos and Jay van Andel, the co-founders were deeply invested in the Republican party. The late Rich DeVos was the father of Rick DeVos who is the husband of the already filthy rich former Secretary of Education under #45, Betsy DeVos. Betsy is the sister of Erik Prince, the guy who created the private mercenary company Blackwater World Wide, that has contracted with the U.S. government to fight and kill people i Iraq, Afghanistan, and other place the Pentagon wants to decimate. Such a crew, and they claim to be Christians! WTF?
Thank you, Fern. I agree. I find President Biden to be way too cautious as he continues to 'namby pamby' nearly everything he does. His recent statement in which he put down #45 was excellent, but is it was at least 365 days way too f*#king late! He leans too far right on many issues. When will he ever learn that trying to compromise with a party led by an autocrat will never work? Somebody should make a loud recording that Biden will not be able to shut off as he goes to bed that tells him to get his fellow democrats to eliminate the filibuster before the party likely loses the House and perhaps the Senate in the 2022 election. Is he trying to emulate Obama's first term when that president lost control of both the House and the Senate after two years?
I think you misunderstand Biden. I don't see caution in his activities. I see action. He has accomplished with the help of Congress more than any President in recent history. But if there were a way for him to "convince" Sinema and Manchin to become de-facto Democrats, I am sure he would have exercised that magic by now.
I share your frustration (and Fern's). But if you have a path, a sentence, a paragraph, a message, a form of cajoling or any form of political pressure that you think Biden could lay on these two spoilers to make a difference... to get voting rights passed...please share it with us. Specifically, what should he do?
While I despise Manchin and Sinema, I think we need to recognize that there are 50 Republican Senators who stand in the way of passing voting rights. Let's not let them off the hook. We need to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them as well. The cowards didn't even show up at the Capitol on Thursday. Let's give them the publicity that they so richly deserve. It's not...nor should it be...only up to the Democrats.
agree. What's missing in this conversation is the responsibility of all of us, the American people, to work before and after every election to keep our voices raised and our bodies out there in front our elected representatives
As I have read somewhere, Sinema has been much more of a liberal in the past, and the Dems may be able to get her to vote 'Yea." However, for coal baron Manchin, I have little hope of converting his pro fossil fuel stance, since he makes oodles of money from other coal companies to line his pockets and do what Amway dealers are always told to do, buy a new yacht, a mansion, another fancy automobile, etc. Back in the 1970s, I sold Amway for a while and soon learned that Rich DeVos and Jay van Andel, the co-founders were deeply invested in the Republican party. The late Rich DeVos was the father of Rick DeVos who is the husband of the already filthy rich former Secretary of Education under #45, Betsy DeVos. Betsy is the sister of Erik Prince, the guy who created the private mercenary company Blackwater World Wide, that has contracted with the U.S. government to fight and kill people i Iraq, Afghanistan, and other place the Pentagon wants to decimate. Such a crew, and they claim to be Christians! WTF?
I used to like Amway until I found out that the corrupters owned them.
Amen!