Brandon’s Bad Awful Week

[BabyBoomer50s]

- 7% inflation
- Snubbed by Stacy Abrams
- Sinema confirms support for filibuster
- BBB death certificate issued
- Federal election bill knifed
- 33% approval in new Quinnipiac poll
- SCOTUS kills vaccine mandate for businesses

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Noe he'll never get asked to prom.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Noe he'll never get asked to prom.

Ha ha. True that!

 

[pecksniff]

- Snubbed by Stacy Abrams

That didn't happen, actually.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

That didn't happen, actually.

Right. The President of the United States came to Georgia to give a high-profile voting rights speech, and the state’s most prominent voting rights advocate, who lives in GA, told POTUS she had a “scheduling conflict.”

 

[pecksniff]

Right. The President of the United States came to Georgia to give a high-profile voting rights speech, and the state’s most prominent voting rights advocate, who lives in GA, told POTUS she had a “scheduling conflict.”

Which happens all the time with pols, and there was no urgent reason she had to be there. Biden will campaign for her when the time comes.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I just don't understand why he wasted his first year, with a compliant Congress, focusing on bullshit.

Why not push immigration reform through? Why not stabilize Social Security? Why not expand Medicaid?

What a wasted opportunity to actually do something.

 

[bellisarius]

I just don't understand why he wasted his first year, with a compliant Congress, focusing on bullshit.

Why not push immigration reform through? Why not stabilize Social Security? Why not expand Medicaid?

What a wasted opportunity to actually do something.

I think he blew any chance at immigration reform on day one when he effectively opened the border. Until that situation is dealt with no one is going to get immigration reform through.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I think it's too late now. He shot his political wad on BBB and the next congress will be split.

It's a shame because both sides wanted something done with immigration.

 

[bellisarius]

I think it's too late now. He shot his political wad on BBB and the next congress will be split.

It's a shame because both sides wanted something done with immigration.

If you think about it the best chance blew up in the first few months of the Trump administration. Trump wanted to get legislation passed that would deal with the "Dreamers." Chucky and Nancy dug in and said "pass comprehensive reform or nothing." Trump might have been able to get something through the house but without Chucky's cooperation nothing was going to get through the senate.

From my perspective Trumps position was quite reasonable. We have a problem here involving real people being penalized for no fault of their own, a simple piece of legislation can fix it, so let's fix it.

As far as I'm concerned the democrats threw the dreamers under the bus.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The dems always want these big all-encompassing bills - or nothing. It's just a way to get their pet projects passed. It'd be better for the people to address specific issues with specific bills.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Which happens all the time with pols, and there was no urgent reason she had to be there. Biden will campaign for her when the time comes.

No, it doesn’t “happen all the time” and for political reasons, her presence was critical. The President chose Georgia for symbolic reasons. He went there to deliver what is intended to be a major policy speech intended to heighten public pressure and sway the outcome of a Senate vote that is crucial to salvaging his legislative agenda. Abrams is the poster child for his cause. She’s black and she’s the national and state icon for the cause the President was crusading for. The optics of her on stage with him would have been extremely powerful with the audience he was trying to reach.

It also had implications for her campaign for governor. This was chance for her to be seen on the same stage with a sitting President of her own party.

And she blew him off. That speaks volumes about how low Biden has sunk, even within the Democratic Party.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

I think it's too late now. He shot his political wad on BBB and the next congress will be split.

It's a shame because both sides wanted something done with immigration.

I’m not so sure the next Congress will be split. It’s almost a foregone conclusion the GOP will take the House and prospects for capturing the Senate look very good as well.