Biden/Harris Presidency Discussion Thread

Itssoeasy

banie01 wrote: »

Has one ever been so warranted?
It was apt, and a great speech too overall.

True.

Garth brooks going in for the hugs.

Itssoeasy

That’s was some poem by that young woman.

TomOnBoard

Amanda Gorman!

Simply: WOW!

Maya Angelou lives again...

froog

pence looks happier than at any time in the last four years.

Itssoeasy

froog wrote: »

pence looks happier than at any time in the last four years.

Because he doesn’t have to pretend he likes the now former president Donald trump.

Itssoeasy

Nice to see the new Vice President continue the tradition of the new VP seeing off the former one on the east side of the capitol. You can disagree on many things Mike pence believes and what he was part to over the past four years but at least he had the courtesy to return what joe Biden did for him four years ago.

MadYaker

MadYaker wrote: »

Anyone that is anywhere near proceedings would have gotten tested. It looks very sparsely populated compared to normal. Your faux concern is quite transparent, like all of your posts really.

If anything is sparsely populated, it's the brain you are responding to.

Windmill100000

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Because he doesn’t have to pretend he likes the now former president Donald trump.

God imagine if your boss was Trump. Seriously. The relief must be palpable. And mixing with normal, mature ADULTS again, not babies and brown noses.

Itssoeasy

I know this may not be the main point from the wreath ceremony but either Michelle Obama is deceptively tall or Laura bush is very short. It could be the camera angle. Also, it’s amazing how bad you have to be to make people appreciate George W bush and his presidency and he being amongst Clinton and Obama at Arlington cemetery seems like it’s meant to be.

Water John

George W Bush is in his element at these events. Seems a very sociable guy, Jim Clyburn was having great banter with him.

Itssoeasy

Water John wrote: »

George W Bush is in his element at these events. Seems a very sociable guy, Jim Clyburn was having great banter with him.

Yeah he a guy who’s presidency won’t be remember that fondly but as a person he and his family seem nice people. They way he and his wife and daughters went out of their way to make the obamas feel welcome was very nice.

Itssoeasy

The contrast between the Bidens and the trumps is night and day. Just watching the new president walk into the White House and this shouldn’t be news but the actually look like they like each other as a family.

Water John

Amazed to hear the Bush was saying to Clyburn that he was the saviour. That his getting Biden nominated was the only way Trump could have been defeated.

Rjd2

Water John wrote: »

Amazed to hear the Bush was saying to Clyburn that he was the saviour. That his getting Biden nominated was the only way Trump could have been defeated.

Like Clyburn or Biden or not, it can't be argued that the Clyburn endorsement wasn't a game changer in the primary.

Pretty cool/awful (depends on your opinion on his politics) that someone can be such a game changer regarding endorsement.

Itssoeasy

Rjd2 wrote: »

Like Clyburn or Biden or not, it can't be argued that the Clyburn endorsement wasn't a game changer in the primary.

Pretty cool/awful (depends on your opinion on his politics) that someone can be such a game changer regarding endorsement.

I can’t remember ever seeing or reading about a single politician so drastically changing the course of a campaign like that. It might have happened but it can’t have happened very often.

Well all he said was that he and his late wife “know joe Biden” which is hardly an earth shattering statement given that many politicians on both sides know him given his years in Washington DC.

marno21

Sens. Padilla, Ossoff and Warnock have been sworn in

Therefore..

https://twitter.com/anthonyquintano/status/1352015843337641987?s=21

A wonderful sight, Minority Leader.

pixelburp

marno21 wrote: »

Sens. Padilla, Ossoff and Warnock have been sworn in

Therefore..

https://twitter.com/anthonyquintano/status/1352015843337641987?s=21

A wonderful sight, Minority Leader.

Plus or minus one Joe Manchin though. IIRC Manchin already showed some reluctance towards parts of Bidens manifesto, but I don't immediately have the source so equally, could have misread it. The Dem majority is likely to produce more than its fair share of Squeaky Bum times IMO...

Frank Bullitt

Biden signs an order to rejoin the Paris Accord. He is off to a good start.

L1011

pixelburp wrote: »

Plus or minus one Joe Manchin though. IIRC Manchin already showed some reluctance towards parts of Bidens manifesto, but I don't immediately have the source so equally, could have misread it. The Dem majority is likely to produce more than its fair share of Squeaky Bum times IMO...

There are issues that Manchin will waver on where they may be able to get Romney or Collins, however.

A subset, but some nonetheless.

Faugheen

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah he a guy who’s presidency won’t be remember that fondly but as a person he and his family seem nice people. They way he and his wife and daughters went out of their way to make the obamas feel welcome was very nice.

Apparently now Bush and Michelle are very good friends. It was referenced a couple of times today.

Itssoeasy

Faugheen wrote: »

Apparently now Bush and Michelle are very good friends. It was referenced a couple of times today.

Yeah they are. There’s something about sweats that bush now hands Michelle Obama every time they are at an event because apparently the sit together because of the way it’s done for former presidents and First Ladies. I don’t think that changes now that trump is a former president.

Oh I was rewatching the swearing in of the two New Democratic Georgia senators and VP Harris’s replacement and she was in the chair and she read out the notice and she read her own name and she laughed. It’s nice that Kamala Harris can when the moment allows it to laugh.

Itssoeasy

pixelburp wrote: »

Plus or minus one Joe Manchin though. IIRC Manchin already showed some reluctance towards parts of Bidens manifesto, but I don't immediately have the source so equally, could have misread it. The Dem majority is likely to produce more than its fair share of Squeaky Bum times IMO...

He was on one of the Sunday morning shows the Sunday just gone and he wants any relief to be targeted and not just thrown out there. I don’t think he’ll be that much of a blocker but now senate majority leader Schumer might need to finesse things a bit. I think GOP senators romney, Collins, and markoski will be votes that unless it’s something completely off the wall they’ll be open to working with the democrats. You have to remember that president Biden knows how the senate works and that may come in very handy.

BonnieSituation

Itssoeasy wrote: »

He was on one of the Sunday morning shows the Sunday just gone and he wants any relief to be targeted and not just thrown out there. I don’t think he’ll be that much of a blocker but now senate majority leader Schumer might need to finesse things a bit. I think GOP senators romney, Collins, and markoski will be votes that unless it’s something completely off the wall they’ll be open to working with the democrats. You have to remember that president Biden knows how the senate works and that may come in very handy.

Remember that it was Biden that was key to getting the ACA through because of his relationships in the Senate.

BonnieSituation

Water John wrote: »

Amazed to hear the Bush was saying to Clyburn that he was the saviour. That his getting Biden nominated was the only way Trump could have been defeated.

Any links to that?

Itssoeasy

Biden was virtually swearing in appointees on nbc now and he said that if anyone of them acts the bollocks(he didn’t use those words) towards a colleague then he will fire them. That’s a fairly strong statement on day one. He also signed some executive orders and he used a pen and sounded like he knew what the hell he was signing and what they would do.

Itssoeasy

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Any links to that?

I’d say if you go back on the nbc YouTube coverage and scroll back you’ll probably be able to find it but it’s a long shot.

StringerBell

pixelburp wrote: »

Plus or minus one Joe Manchin though. IIRC Manchin already showed some reluctance towards parts of Bidens manifesto, but I don't immediately have the source so equally, could have misread it. The Dem majority is likely to produce more than its fair share of Squeaky Bum times IMO...

Manchin will have his sights set on a run in 4 years, to do that he has to walk a thin line of showing enough independence from Biden to not be too easily tarred with the radical left brush but also not so much that he completely alienates the democrat vote.

If he can figure a way to thread that line he would be a good candidate but it won't be easy.

BonnieSituation

Rand Paul on Fox News now complaining about the EOs.

Good god.

I was gonna write more about it but my brain is itchy listening to him.

Water John

Bonnie found something on it:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/20/george-w-bush-biden-inauguration-clyburn-vpx-new.wis

Itssoeasy

It’s amazing how an administration holding a daily press briefing daily is news. By just doing the normal things a US government is supposed to do this new administration will be way ahead of the last crowd.