Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Classic case of making excuses for their failure after the fact. Schumer is the head Democrat in the Senate, it's absolutely a knock on him that he can't rally his party to achieve a political aim, especially one that would be an absolute win for them as a party.

There are other parliamentary avenues that could have been explored, similar to other areas that allow for Reconciliation. Any way you want to excuse it, it's a failure. They're politicians, if they can't work a deal to garner the support within their party to rule effectively, that's a fairly damning indictment.

So clearly it wasn't 'One of the worst missteps in modern political history.' as you claimed.

I mean, if that was, then every PM/Taoiseach/President/Chancellor that I've been watching for the last 30 years has been an out and out failure.

You have a high bar for success, you must have been appalled at the last guy.

That's it run away.

or possibly the greatest given the low effort of your statement.

The use of Reconciliation requires any legislation be tied to a budget related item.

In effect, the Dems would need to show the Senate Parliamentarian that their proposals would meet that criteria.

A few examples from an opinion article here:

Voting tax credit, free postage for mail in ballots, free Government ID, funding for early voting. It's an exercise in creative thinking.

Love the fact that the article puts as much information about the gender preference as much as the actual alleged crime.

And yet Biden's been accused of "identity politics" on this thread.

Incredible.

Word of advice - quit reading the Daily Mail. It's just for scaring old people.

'It's possibly the worst prisoner exchange deal ever'

At least this administration did get a US citizen home. That wasn't the case here.

It's a further sign of the hypocrisy in the world of political actions and commentary to see so many people express outrage at the release of Viktor Bout when they give so much support to the arms industry world wide. Kicking out 10% of the arms industry lobbyists or cutting back on the sale of their products, would do vastly more to keep people safe than jailing ten Viktor Bouts.

You do know when they talk about gun control/reform, they're talking about within the US correct?

Also, arms dealer, not arms producer. See my previous post in relation to that. Focusing on this is akin to saying the source of the drug problem is the street dealer, not the producers of the product, or the consumers.

How does this track with these servicemens acceptance of other vaccination requirements?

I'm surprised the figure is this high even given the antivax movement on it. I figured there'd be some more cop on. There have been a lot of high profile infectious deaths from young and middle aged unvaxed people.

Is there a civilian facing breakdown of these stats by age or anything

There's also the issue of the Military mandating a vaccine that didn't physically exist, along with widespread cases of commands ignoring regulations against taking punitive action towards soldiers for not taking the vaccine prior to the mandate.

Classic photo....

I was told the past several quarters that we were running into a recession?

Thanks Brandon, GDP above 3.0% again.

Are you outraged?