Reply With QuoteBoth have integrity, say what they actually think, and have been marginalized by their respective parties.Originally Posted by shortstuff
I would be very open to supporting either one.
Lee,
I totally agree. In fact, Biden won't be in office much longer, if he makes it to 2022. As for Harris, of course she will take the torch and continue to torch our country. The 3.5 Trillion dollar infrastructure bill, if passed, will be the demise of the Democratic party. You can count on that. 2022 election needs to be successful for the Republican's Party, if it does not win both the House & the Senate - well it will be the demise of our country. You will see the shift one way or another, we either save our country by a Republican win - or we lose our country with a Democratic win.
So the question is, who do I feel will run for the 2024 Presidential race and who is my favorite(s).
1. DeSantas "may" run. I love the him as my Governor and I still think he needs 4 more years as our Governor. He isn't quite there yet, if he runs for the Presidential race, I fear he may not succeed a second term. Not ready yet. That said, when he is ready, he will make an amazing President.
2. Ted Cruz will probably run. I love him, but the question remains, "why hasn't Texas closed their own border? They can, so why haven't they? Cruz is a lot of hot air but really no action. I won't vote for him. But I still like him. I did like his "flat tax" proposal in his last run for President.
3. Rand Paul will probably run. I love - love - love him. I will probably vote for him as I think he has the right blend to put this country on a respectable and sustainable path.
4. Kristi Neom will probably run. I did love her until she was uncertain about the bill for transgender as she feared retaliation from companies and sponsors. That told me that she is apt to bend to the liberal policies. She would make a good VP though..
5. Nikke Haley will probably run. I loved her until she trashed Trump. Maybe a fairly good VP.
6. Tulsi Gabbard will probably run. I know she is a Democrat, but boy I love her. She is pragmatic, smart, articulate, experienced and fair to policy initiatives and truly feels she can bring the country together. I would vote for her, hands down.
My top is Rand Paul & Tulsi Gabbard...
Both have integrity, say what they actually think, and have been marginalized by their respective parties.
I would be very open to supporting either one.
LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
The Washington cesspool
While the country is embroiled in so many problems that adversely impacts its best interests, Washington’s inept legislators are stuck on stupid.
A bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill was approved. That bill is now being threatened for passage in the House by progressive Democrats holding even their own moderate Democrats hostage.
House Speaker Pelosi promised moderates that she'd bring the infrastructure bill to the House floor for a vote on September 27, before extending the deadline to September 30. Pelosi delayed the vote again after progressives threatened to sink the bill unless the larger spending bill is passed in tandem.
Biden recently stated, "We cannot let this small faction on the far left ... destroy the President's agenda and stop the creation of two million jobs a year—including for the millions of hard-working men and women of labor," he wrote in a statement.
But this week, the battleground centered on Capitol Hill, and the outsiders -- now greater in number and more comfortable in power -- fought the moderates to a remarkable stalemate that upset long-held assumptions and doubts over the left's ability to impose its will in Washington.
Saturday, Biden made clear that the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill won't pass unless Democrats reach a deal on the $3.5 trillion spending bill. Biden leaned even further left and blamed Manchin and Sinema for the agenda stall.
The bottom line: Mr. Biden will need more time to push the bills across the finish line. He still believes that 70% of Americans favor his $3.5 trillion social safety net bill. Polls don’t seem to indicate that.
We were promised bipartisanship, unity, compromise, and leadership by Biden. Not seeing too much of that!
Filtering out the white noise
Woe for independents and moderates attempting to determine the lesser evil of three potential presidential candidates in 2024.
Trump
Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, a major donor to Republicans, ruled out supporting Donald Trump for another run for president.
In the last election cycle, Griffin spent big on politics, giving $46 million to Republicans, making him the fourth-biggest individual GOP donor for the period, according to OpenSecrets.org. He said Monday, however, that he has never financially supported Trump.
Trump’s tenure was not constructive for the country, Griffin said -- except for his economic policies, which Griffin described as “pretty damn good.”
The former president was “so pointlessly divisive,” said Griffin, who added that he was “appalled” by Trump’s willingness to attack people based on where they came from or the color of their skin.
In addition, Trump when in office, and equally so now attacks loyalists in his own party. A toxic train wreck who should be shunted aside.
Biden
Even liberals now see that the ‘moderate’ Biden was a mirage. Progressives now own the Democratic Party.
The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill isn't as popular as it seems. There are many ridiculous defenses for President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan, including the laughable claim that it actually costs nothing. One of the more grounded defenses is that the plan is broadly popular, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Don’t take the word of conservatives that President Joe Biden is governing like a radical; take the word of the liberal-establishment media. The liberal media is even reporting that it is time to acknowledge that Biden is trying to implement extremist policies, considerably outside the mainstream - amounting to a massive outlay of federal spending that will add massive sums to the federal budget deficit.
With $28 trillion already in national debt and at its highest level in relation to GDP in U.S. history, Biden proposes to obligate yet another $7 trillion (after accounting for budgetary gimmicks) in the next decade. The full blow will come just as the Social Security and Medicare trust funds also run out of reserves.
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban stated today that Biden’s nine months in office isn’t enough time to right the ship. Biden’s ship is beached in the shallows.
Kamala Harris
Czarina Kamala Harris doesn't have time to go the border, but she apparently has plenty of time to encourage anti-Israel, anti-Semitic falsehoods,
Harris, for her part, inadvertently added fuel to the fire on Tuesday with for her response to a George Mason University student's comment accusing Israel of "ethnic genocide." It wasn't the first time Harris opened the Biden administration up to criticism.
Harris is not only a threat to her own party but her country’s best interests as well.
It is not surprising that a great number of Americans despair, feeling their country is being destroyed from within, while holding little hope for a better future.
Have the socialist already won
Ready for even more Big Brother in your lives?
Ready to be declared terrorist and threatened with silence by federal law enforcement when daring to voice opinion against the Biden administration? Like taxpaying parents attending school board meetings being declared terrorists for daring to voice opinions other than the board members who they elected into office.
Tired of being shamed by your president for not getting vaccinated while tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are absolved from same requirement?
Want your government forcing banks to snoop into your bank accounts and report any withdrawals over $600?
Agree with our president that harassing a sitting Senator is part of the political process when in his long political career he was never accosted in such manner.
Agree with the near $7 trillion spending package the Democrats are proposing, raising the debt limit to accomplish their spending, while inflation is rampant? Inflation has reached its highest level in nearly 40 years, eating away at paychecks and straining family budgets. Working families are paying higher taxes and fighting to afford higher prices for everything from gas to food to clothes,
The border crisis continues to rage, with the highest number of crossings in over two decades. Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan, living under Taliban rulers armed with billions of dollars-worth of American-bought military equipment.
While crime and murder rates are record high what concerns Washington Democrats these days is not how to address these crises. Instead, their sole focus is on how to convince each other to go along with a massive tax-and-spend agenda that helps their political allies while doing very little for workers and families.
America did not get here overnight. Biden is taking us further left into socialism after promising he was a moderate. Then again, is the doddering old guy really in command. He only speaks extemporaneously when they let him.
Biden is the wrong leader for America
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp
The divisions in the country are said to be too deep and too profound to put the nation together again. And there seems to be merit in those concerns.
The current attack on American values and history began decades ago, but the existential emasculation that has produced extreme chasms between Americans has only recently been revealed.
It came to the forefront during the first presidential campaign of former President Barack Obama and persisted throughout his eight years in the Oval Office. His vision of “hope and change” was a hope that American individualism would be replaced with European-style collectivism and a change to a globalist system that featured Marxist economics.
The Obama administration did not like America. It didn’t appreciate our history or the remarkable way a nation grew out of the milieu of monarchy and dictatorship to the most free and sought-after country on earth. The seeds of division sown by the “I’ve never been proud of my country before” Obamas were fully flowering by the end of his reign.
National Democrats have abandoned Joe Manchin; he should formalize the split
I would love to see Joe Manchin become an Independent – and caucus with neither party if that were possible. John McCain was an example of a respected Independent; Republican in Party, an independent moderate / centrist in policy. Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, diametrically opposite of being an independent.
Democrat Progressives have said they will not vote for the infrastructure bill, which has already passed the Senate, unless the companion social safety net bill has also been passed through a process known as budget reconciliation.
Fundamental parts of that bill are still being debated among Democrats, chiefly, the top-line price tag. Moderate Democrats have demanded the bill not spend more than $1.5 trillion over a decade, while progressives have pushed for a number closer to $3.5 trillion.
Republicans, meanwhile, have relished watching Democrats attack one another, and argued that both bills, especially the safety net bill, will massively increase the federal deficit. Manchin’s centrist stance is reasonable and in the best interest of the country.
National Democrats have abandoned Joe Manchin; he should formalize the split
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp
If Republican leaders are smart, they will start a concerted effort, right now, to entice U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to leave the Democratic Party.
Manchin may not become a Republican (although he would fit in well as an “independent who caucuses with Republicans”), but he would better represent the values of his West Virginia constituents if he no longer affiliated himself with the increasingly radical-leftist Democrats who run the White House, the Senate, and the U.S. House. As a Republican or as an independent caucusing with Republicans, Manchin could retain a maverick persona while doing both his state and country the favor of forcing policy back to a sensible center.
Maybe Joe Biden forgot that he ran as a moderate
Maybe he doesn't remember that he beat the progressives who ran against him for his party's nomination. Maybe he's unaware that Democrats have only a slim advantage in the House, and the Senate is split right down the middle. Moderate Democrats have been betrayed by their own party.
President Joe Biden sought to refocus public attention on how his domestic agenda will improve average Americans' lives Tuesday. President Biden wants to make the federal government a lot bigger than it is, to increase America’s dependency on the largesse of government, to provide "free" entitlements to millions of Americans and make sure they know Washington will take care of them from cradle to grave.
Biden’s Quinnipiac poll indicates the public is not buying what he is selling. His approval rating has dropped to 38%. 55% of those polled felt he is incompetent and 35% find him ineffective in leadership. His Approval / Disapproval spread on the following are dismaying:
Economy -16
Military -21
Taxes -17
Foreign Policy -24
Immigration -42
Mexican Border -44
Coronavirus -2
Other
Biden’s administration has:
Gone to war against parents challenging school boards and label's them ‘terrorists.’
Charged Congress and Americans who oppose his $7 trillion spending plans complicit in the decline of America.
Biden refuses to acknowledge that more Americans died from Covid in 2021 than in all of 2020.
The public is Feeling the effects of his policies on inflation where pocketbooks are now suffering long-term price increases – a $175 per month estimated increase in household purchases and a predicted significant increase in upcoming winter heating bills.
Grocery shopped today and couldn’t believe the increase in prices - $18.99 for deli sliced roast beef as well as significant increases in other products. Not everyone is destined to get that ‘free stuff.’
Reality is beginning to set in on the public who voted for the scripted moderate who was going to bring us unity and decency. Is he incapable of seeing his failed foreign and domestic policies, his inability to speak extemporaneously, and embarrassing faux pas? Where are the liberal media fact checkers? Not needed they said soon after Biden’s taking office. Only Trump lies!.
Scared? Yeah, me too!
"The New Normal" is just a different way of saying "abnormal;" a departure from the institutionalized status quo.
"The Great Re-set" is the term for the process by which the "abnormal" is made permanent.
If you had any doubt that America is shifting from its longtime status as a Constitutional Republic to a Fascist/Communist state, this should convinced you...
Reference: https://nypost.com/2021/10/05/parent...nt-in-schools/Parents take a stand against FBI crackdown on CRT opponents
By Callie Patteson
October 5, 2021 4:26pm
Parents and politicians are slamming the Department of Justice’s decision to bring in the FBI to investigate a spike in “threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” saying the Biden administration is likening their protests of “woke” policies such as Critical Race Theory — as well as mandatory mask wearing — to “domestic terrorism.”
“Dear @TheJusticeDept Merrick Garland and @FBI Director Christopher Wray,” Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education, posted on Twitter. “This is what a domestic terrorist looks like? You are criminalizing parenting, and you owe the people of America a swift apology.”
She sarcastically signed the missive, “‘Domestic Terrorist,’ Asra Nomani.”
Nomani’s group has been researching how school boards across the US implement “woke” ideas into curricula, such as critical race theory.
In recent months, dozens of parents have taken a stand in school board meetings against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in classrooms and to protest mask mandates, causing some to wonder what the FBI and DOJ are actually investigating.
The DOJ move was spurred by the National School Boards Association asking the Biden administration for assistance, suggesting that there have been threats and acts of violence and equating those to domestic terrorism.
In a separate tweet, Nomani claimed Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a “declaration of war” on parents when he announced the initiative on Monday.
Another parent, Nicole Solas from Rhode Island, accused the FBI of being “the politics police,” while claiming any “legitimate” violence is already “sufficiently addressed by your local police.”
“Arrest me,” she said in another tweet.
Nicole Solas from Rhode Island accused the FBI of being “the politics police.”
In a memo released Monday, Garland announced that while “spirited debate about policy matters is protected under our Constitution, that protection does not extend to threats or violence or efforts to intimate individuals based on their views.”
The investigation will be looking at the recent spike in acts of violence against school staff members, however, Garland’s memo did not specify what those acts were.
In a Sept. 29 letter, the National School Boards Association said much of this opposition led to dozens of incidents at school board meetings this year, claiming, “America’s public schools and its education leaders are under an immediate threat.”
The NSBA suggested that “[a]s these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes” and asked that the administration review the question.
The group further asked the Biden administration to consider its powers under the Patriot Act, the sweeping surveillance legislation passed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
While Garland’s memo follows the NSBA’s request for help, he did not specify whether incidents related to the implementation of mask mandates or critical race theory would be investigated. Additionally, the memo does not classify the incidents as domestic terrorism.
“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” Garland wrote.
“Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”
Many parents, however, still see the order as targeted towards them.
“This is a coordinated attempt to intimidate dissenting voices in the debates surrounding America’s underperforming K-12 education – and it will not succeed. We will not be silenced,” Parents Defending Education said in a Monday statement.
Elicia Brand, a parent from Loudoun County, told Fox News that parents “owe this to our children” and generations after to “stand strong in their fight for freedom.”
“I encourage all parents to stand strong in their fight for freedom and parental rights and never falter in the face of unjustified threats,” she said.
“I hope the proper authorities are used to find those who threaten violence or speak such hateful words, but they will not find them in the Loudoun County parent community, as we stand against that. Moms and Dads will stand strong in our faith of doing right and our peaceful mission to protect our children even more now that this letter has been released, as we are at the tipping point where the free America that we love can quickly be the America to be feared. We owe this to our children and the generations that follow.”
Sen. Josh Hawley joined with parents on Tuesday in their criticism, accusing Garland of only focusing on “democratic pushback against critical race theory,” rather than threats of violence.
“All around the country, Americans are speaking out against the radical racist ideology sometimes called ‘critical race theory,'” the Missouri Republican wrote in a memo obtained by Fox News.
“Americans have responded to this radical ideology by winning elections for local school boards and protesting peacefully at school board meetings. Yet your memo yesterday to the FBI and local U.S. Attorneys ignored all of this and warned of an insurgence of ‘threats of violence’ and ‘efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.’”
“I certainly share your view that threats of violence have no place in this country, but the backdrop of your memo strongly suggests that your concern is not violence, but democratic pushback against critical race theory,” he added.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has also spoken out, saying his state “will not allow federal agents to squelch dissent.”
“Attorney General Garland is weaponizing the DOJ by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation,” he wrote in a Tweet. “Florida will defend the free speech rights of its citizens and will not allow federal agents to squelch dissent.”
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LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
Biden asking for trust and patience
After all indicators reflect the opposite, including his downward spiraling poll numbers, Biden spoke today on the dismal September employment numbers and blamed everything for the poor showing except his Leadership and policies. He declared that although it may seem so, but his plan is working.
In his address today, Biden asks for more time and money to correct the problems and crises he created. And then he walks away from the podium without taking media questions.
Trust you Mr. Biden? Do you honestly believe you deserve our trust? Things aren't going so rosy for many of us lately!
Daily Beast
All Biden had to do in his eight months as president was to keep the implicit promises his campaign made to voters. Biden won the 2020 election by making inroads with traditionally center-right constituencies—as opposed to winning by juicing traditionally Democratic constituencies. Based on that knowledge, you would think he would attempt to govern in a manner that would keep this coalition on board. Instead, he made a huge mistake and decided to bet big on progressivism—he was lured by the hope of being the next FDR or LBJ but also plagued with a razor-thin majority.
Rather than trying to ease into the job, Biden signed a bunch of executive orders, some of which exacerbated the looming border crisis. He also pushed through big spending policies, while ignoring warnings about inflation. Rather than trying to bring conservatives into the fold, he pursued pro-abortion policies.
Rather than working with Republicans to pass COVID relief out of the gate, he steamrolled them. Later, when a group of Republicans worked across the aisle on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, he sandbagged them, announcing that the bill would be linked with a $3.5 trillion social spending bill that would pass on a party-line vote.
He also prevaricated and misled us about multiple things, ranging from independence from COVID-19 to thinking the Taliban wouldn’t take over Kabul to telling us that “over the horizon” technology could prevent terrorism from abroad. He said the border crisis was “cyclical” and inflation were just “transitory.”
Rather than restore norms, he insisted that everything he wanted to do was “infrastructure,” and pretty much everything Republicans wanted to do was forced under the rubric of “Jim Crow 2.0.”
His administration talked about “people” being evacuated from Afghanistan, without noting that a small percentage of these people were U.S. citizens or special immigrant visa (SIV) holders. His poll numbers reflect both his failed policies and the lack of trust he has engendered.
It’s the violence stupid
We live in a world where there is no accountability. This report best exemplifies what is not only taking place in Illinois but is relevant because it identifies same scenarios occurring across America. And too often it goes unreported in left media outlets.
Why worry you say, you don’t live in such neighborhoods. Consider yourself fortunate. Someday...
It’s not Chicago Covid Mr. President, it’s Chicago violence
https://johnkassnews.com/its-not-chi...cago-violence/
When President Joe Biden visits Chicago this week—reports are that he’ll be here Thursday to avoid the specter of Democrats scratching their eyes out in Washington over his failing multi-trillion-dollar socialist spending spree—some smart aide might whisper in his ear about what’s really killing Chicago and Illinois:
It’s not the Covid, Joe.
It’s the violence, stupid.
What has happened to Chicago? Here’s what happened:
The Democrats happened.
The George Floyd riots happened. Democrats wanted their voters whipped to a frenzy in 2020 and got what they wanted. Lightfoot and other liberal Black mayors across the country stood back as their administrations, and the rule of law in their cities were devoured by BLM and other elements of the hard Jacobin left that now rules the Democrat Party, with Biden as its empty, titular, wobbling head.
Democrats let the Floyd protests drive chaos. Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker, our very own Gov. Commodious Maximus, didn’t want the National Guard in the city at first. They were worried about the optics, they wanted the left wing good and angry, and Donald Trump out of the White House. Chicago has never recovered.
Police were demonized, assaulted, and seriously injured. The sense of lawlessness in urban America grew. And unlike the Jan. 6 capitol rioters, most of the violent in Chicago and other Democratic urban centers were excused. The BLM rioters were not condemned as terrorists and hunted down. Instead, there was a deal.
And local media is, for the most part, woke, and hesitant to criticize Foxx and Preckwinkle and their lackey, Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans, as the three of them empty the county jail and release the violent upon the streets with low or no bond and electronic monitoring.
Ken Griffin, the multi-billionaire Citadel Hedge fund boss sees what’s happening. He’s one of the few business leaders in Chicago who dares speak up about the mess the city has become. He criticized Gov. Pritzker for not bringing the National Guard to Chicago when it counted. “I mean Chicago is like Afghanistan, on a good day. That’s a problem,” he said.
Cheer up, liberals; you have the America you wanted
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...?ocid=msedgntp
Liberals need to step back, take a longer view and recognize everything they’ve won. The multitrillion-dollar legislative package that the Democrats are considering is the culmination of a two-decade process in which U.S. policymaking and culture have shifted substantially leftward — shaped by changes those liberals circa 2003 desperately wanted to see happen — while what once seemed like powerful right-of-center ideologies have gone down to defeat.
There is a certain pall over American liberalism as negotiations over the infrastructure and reconciliation bills drag on — a feeling that even if a deal is negotiated (as I assume one will be), it will represent a last gasp for progressive policymaking, a final desperate advance before the American system’s rightward tilt restores Republican power or else a constitutional crisis hits.
Meanwhile the country is more racially diverse, pot is legal or semi-legal in many states, incarceration rates have fallen and ideas once on the leftward fringe are dominant across media and academia.
Maybe — the sense of American decline and even doom hanging over certain liberals nowadays is a sign that their own vision, a society of ever-increasing social individualism under the protection of an expansive welfare state, actually leads to a somewhat darker future than they thought.
Pessimistic liberals need to cheer up. They have the America they wanted. Make the most of it.
Perspectives on Trump vs. Biden administrations and our best interests
Are you better off today than 10 months ago?
Congressman Schiff
Congressman Adam Schiff’s book Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could was released today. In his book Schiff declares the future of our democracy is in peril should Trump run and win the presidency in 2024. Schiff declares our country will be suffering the ill effects of the Trump administration for 50 years – says the man that said he had the proof of Trump’s collusion with Russia – one he never presented.
In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy.
Sean Hannity
Biden administration’s failed policies and adverse impact on America's best interest.
Hannity reveals why 'Let's go Brandon' chants are breaking out nationwide
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6276834334001/
It just may be the messaging
President Biden is talking tough these days. He and his Press Secretary made it quite clear today that he has been working on the supply chain crisis since he took office. No, the crisis was not caused by his economic policies, but the blame can be laid to the continuing Covid spread. He has a commitment now from the public sector that it will be all-hands-on-deck to eliminate the shipping / dock crisis – that will lessen the rampant inflation crisis. Hey, it only took 10 months. It is estimated that the country is short one-million truck drivers to move the product. Crisis here, crisis there, crisis everywhere.
Now it is up to him to end the Covid threat by mandating the country is vaccinated using any constitutional means available. Never mind all the other domestic and foreign crisis attributable to his policies, they are the end-result of Trump and Covid.
Mandaters gonna mandate
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp
One of the distinguishing characteristics of today's Democratic Party is its growing affection for mandates, which is understandable. If Democratic-led governments want people to do things many of them, for whatever reason, may not want to do, then the governments will have to force (i.e., mandate) them to do so.
As Biden explained in an Oct. 7 speech in Chicago, "There is no other way to beat the pandemic than to get the vast majority of the American people vaccinated. While I didn't race to do it right away, that's why I've had to move toward requirements (i.e., mandates)."
It's not clear yet how the voters will respond to these new Democratic-imposed mandates. But we know this: Mandaters gonna mandate - and voters gonna vote.
Other
Where recent polls on average have Biden’s approval rating at 44% (as low as 37%), the new CNN poll finds Biden’s approval rating at 51%. Today Jake Trapper’s panel declared the single most important thing dragging down his approval rating is messaging as 70-80% of American’s like his Build Back Better $3.5 trillion model.
Crisis after crisis, the country’s economy on decline, on the verge of bankruptcy, 4.5 million workers quitting their jobs, 11 million job openings, and it’s his messaging?
As someone who had his first Covid vaccine shot before Biden took office, his second a month later, awaiting his Moderna booster shot, I encourage everyone to get vaccinated – unless there is an underlying health risk in doing so – to do so. However, Biden’s messaging here has been awful. Promising if elected to end the pandemic, declaring it under control several months ago, he is now mandating vaccinations after calling Trump’s policies a failure.
Calling out Americans refusing to get vaccinate non compassionate, inconsiderate health threats, parents of school children domestic terrorists, citizens opposed to his social safety net bill as complicit in America’s decline, yeah, his messaging sucks!
Biden’s treatment of nurses and health care workers who placed their lives on the line before the vaccines were public is detestable. Heroes then, villains now!
Elections have consequences
We have a new sheriff in town, one that promised he was going to right the ship by removing every vestige of the previous administration, foster bipartisanship and unity and bring peace and prosperity to the nation.
Ten months into Biden's administration we are suffering crisis after crisis with absence of solution and blame for everyone except Biden and his policies creating the crises. And after scolding his citizens publicly at press conferences, he turns his back on them and walks off stage without taking one press question. The mainstream media continue to have his back. The public? Not so much anymore!
Out-of-touch Biden threatens private sector companies as polls nosedive
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp
President Biden has figured out how to fix the supply chain problems that are pushing prices higher and frustrating consumers. His solution? Threaten the private sector.
But Biden saved his fire for this remarkable statement: "If the private sector doesn't step up, we're going to call them out and ask them to act."
Maybe Biden is simply ignorant of how businesses operate since he has no real-world private sector experience. He has never run a store, solved logistical challenges or met a payroll. He doesn't appreciate what makes CEOs sweat or know how to incentivize business owners.
On the other hand, maybe he is just preparing to pass the buck. When Christmas comes, and all those soccer moms who elected Biden are howling that the toys and dishwashers they want to buy are out of stock, hung up in some port halfway around the world, Biden will point the figure at "obstinate" retailers or truckers, and say it is all their fault.
After all, Biden's approval ratings on his management of the economy are already abysmal - underwater by an average of 6 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics. Americans are not happy that prices are rising, with some polls showing it is the country's number one concern. Worse for Biden, some surveys show that voters blame him for increasing inflation.
The most recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will not calm those concerns. The Consumer Price Index showed inflation running at 5.4 percent in September and getting worse. The price of nearly everything is going up, including food, gasoline, rents and fuel oil. Even the Federal Reserve, running unimaginably late to the party, has figured out that recent cost of living increases are not slowing anytime soon.
But Biden is not blameless. He and the Democrat-controlled Congress have helped cause an outsized surge in demand by unnecessarily pumping too much money into an already-hot economy. They have also contributed to a shortage of workers that is plaguing every aspect of the supply chain. By rolling out benefits like extended unemployment pay, rent subsidies and increased food stamps, all offered with no work requirements, Biden and Democrats in Congress reduced the pressure to get back on the job.
Biden is stuck in the 1950s, sure that private corporations are the enemy and Big Labor is the solution. Someone should tell him: Now is not that time.
Leadership crisis and 2024
The hated, consummate lying Trump was replaced by the moderate, unifying, paramount of truth Biden. Ten months later Biden’s party has lost faith in the chosen one as crisis after crisis and his incompetence to meet the challenges envelop his administration.
Who out there has the leadership skills to save the nation from its current crises in 2024 and unite the country? Certainly not Trump, Biden, or Harris!
We have a presidential leadership crisis — and it's only going to get worse
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...edgdhp&pc=U531
Nonetheless, for anti-Trump and independent voters souring on Biden, remember the pendulum-swinging reason you voted for him: He was not Donald Trump. And that was before January's violent attack and second impeachment on Capitol Hill, which made "boring Biden" even more appreciated after all the authoritative strong-man drama.
However, Biden following Trump into the White House is emblematic of a pervasive, overarching national problem that rarely makes headlines yet impacts them all - the United States has a presidential leadership crisis. When voters see two names at the top of the presidential ticket every four years, they shake their heads and ask: "Why can't we do better than these two?" Raise your hand if you can relate.
The Biden vs. Trump choice - among the worst "hold your nose" moments in American history - motivated a record turnout of 155 million voters.
Looking ahead to 2024, we have the makings of potentially the greatest modern presidential leadership crisis at the most perilous time.
Is there a U.S. leader now or on the horizon who could navigate our nation through such a global economic catastrophe? Names, please.
Even Biden's ever-shrinking, nearly-forgotten vice president, Kamala Harris, has an underwater job approval rating of 42 percent, with 51 percent unfavorable.
Could she win Biden's second term if he were to step down? Can you imagine a Harris vs. Trump race? The winner would take our nation from leadership crisis to leadership apocalypse.
Now ask yourself two big-picture questions: Is America ungovernable and incapable of being led? How can anyone lead when half the population refuses to follow?
Our enemies know the answers.
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