Joe Biden’s victory last week has brought with it Democratic control of the White House and hopes for massive COVID-19 stimulus and deep reform bills. But Biden’s win, coupled with Democrats’ failure to capture a Senate majority, will come with an unfortunate hanger-on that conveniently disappeared during the Trump administration: calls for austerity.
Perhaps Biden should consider having “bully pulpit” rallies. Alternatively, “Fireside Eviscerations.” I’d watch that.
ETA. He could channel his stuttering to rhetorical advantage and emphasis: “Republican p…p…pusillanimous p…p…polecats!”
Biden’s first term will likely look like an Obama third term. Moreover, when a trumpite is quoted as to what Biden should do, the premise turns into bullshit. But it won’t cost much to undo trumPP’s EOs orders about climate, Muslim travel bans, rejoining the Paris climate accords, etc., etc., etc.
“Trump does not want the last thing he does in office a $2 trillion debt spending bill. We want Biden to own that, not Trump,” Stephen Moore, a top Trump advisor, said Thursday.
We need to see Democrats start talking loudly and forcefully about the mandate they won to implement their policies. I see a lot of people saying well, we lost seats in the House. This is entirely the wrong way to look at it. Democrats won the House. Remember, every seat is up in every election. Democrats won more of them. So in this election, substantially more people in more districts voted to put Democrats in the House to control the agenda and decisions. And Democrats won the presidency in convincing fashion and gained at least on seat in the Senate. That’s a big win. And a big damn mandate. Democrats should make sure they act like the winners they are.
Yes, and to be fair, Biden has now at least mentioned a mandate, twice – including in it fighting COVID-19, health care generally, some economics, green policy, and several other priorities he campaigned on.
Many if not most of the Dems who lost their seats this time around were “conservadems” or centrist Dems who flipped red districts in 2018. If anything, the House Dem contingent is slightly further left proportionately now.
Are you thinking they won’t? Just cause Rs are not joining in and saying Democrats and in particular Harris/Biden are winners doesn’t mean they’re not. We have a majority in the House, still, and we could have sliver of a majority in the senate which we’ll know in January.
When headlines on front pages of all MSM print and digital newspapers on Sunday read Biden Beats Trump, that means we’re the winners
Yes, I think he’s done ok on this. But lots of other Dems seem to be working at once again turning a win into a loss.
How about a new tax package coming out of the House restoring fat boy’s tax cuts for the rich and corporations. When McConnell refuses to take it up (this assumes at least one Georgia loss) every D should start screaming about rethug fiscal failure and how they only want to protect the super wealthy.
I’m sure there will be blanket invitations to the Sunday gab feasts to get the message out.
“Deficits don’t matter.”
— One-term loser President Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff Darth Cheney
Yep. According to Rethugliklans, deficits are always bad when a Dems in the White House, mainly because they have to take a time-out from their unbridled looting. It’s as predictable as the sunrise.
In other news, as Cadet Cockholster mit der Bone Spurs von Queens ramps up his abortive Biggest Loser: My Humiliation Is Not Complete tour, his campaign still needs your help.
Thankfully, John Oliver has a suggestion:
AND NOW THIS … valuable resource:
That’s the right way to go. I also have seen plenty of stories about how Democrats need to reach out to and try to understand voters for president idiot, and how some in the House (e.g. Spanberger) are making similar noises. They need to be strong and aggressive on this. In the past they haven’t been. Maybe this time will be different, we’ll see. Remember the 2000 election when Bush treated his contested election as a mandate and was pretty effective in steamrolling Dems who were unprepared for it? Would be nice to see Democrats do something like that for a change.
I haven’t heard. Is Nancy Pelosi up for speaker again? I assume so but haven’t heard. There was talk, a while back about grooming folks like Hakeem Jeffries for the position.
Dems, and this is only my opinion, have to give the appearance of being willing to work with the other side (a very nimble dance). Doesn’t mean they have to run their plans by any of them, particularly not the Lindseys and the Teds and def not say a word or share a thought with Turtle, obstructionist in chief. Put the policy out there, let Pelosi get message to conciliators to put a lid on it for the moment, and just back the party to the max.
It is difficult to overemphasize how desperately important it is that the Biden administration fight deficit hawkery and that all Democrats support them in doing so with solid message discipline.
Republican senate or no, we need to go big or go home. One of the greatest frustrations with the Obama administration – well after Republican revanchist obstruction I hasten to add – was Obama’s repeated attempts to approach the stupid/reactionary Republican position in negotiations rather than finding better or stronger ways to resist it.
Not breaking news but there’s this from October.
And This
Michelle Bachman give the Q-anon candidates a primer on Batshit Crazy
Holy Fuck!
Seriously,Jebus Tapdancing Christ Holy Fuck
Thanks.
Maybe, but they need to do it from a position of strength. Even then, I wonder. That is the position Democrats take every time and since the Gingrich years the response from Republicans has generally been an extended middle finger. The result has been government and policy have, over the long haul, moved steadily to the right even as the public generally supports policy positions of Democrats. Maybe fine to make noises about working with Republicans as long as they do so from a position of strength.
I hear people talk about meeting Republicans halfway. That’s nuts. Maybe if Republicans move all the way back from crazy and stupid, then once they get there, that’s where the halfway starts. But should we go halfway to crazy and stupid? I’d say no to that.
Couldn’t agree more.
Stephanie Kelton has it right:
“Deficits do matter, but not the way we’ve been taught to believe…Deficits can be used for good or evil. They can enrich a small segment of the population, driving income and wealth inequality to new heights, while leaving millions behind. They can fund unjust wars that destabilize the world and cost millions their lives. Or they can be used to sustain life and build a more just economy that works for the many and not just the few.”
Democrats will fail both electorally and economically [and deserve to fail] if they don’t understand and draw on the arguments that underpin Kelton’s case for intelligent government spending.
“Michelle Bachmann goes berserk!”
So she has not achieved kohlinar?
