A report card on the Biden administration

[Dadoalex]

Increase taxes on fossil fuels

This is a tax on the middle class on down as they use most fossil fuels for delivery of goods, transportation, heating, etc. Open your eyes before you open your mouth.

And they will benefit most from moving to renewables, solar, and other forms of clean energy.

As we continue to decrease our usage prices will fall. That would tend to increase usage. By implementing taxes we keep the prices up and encourage the INTELLIGENT decision.

Why not think beyond the nedo of your nose BEFORE opening YOUR mouth.

That's real good, and the poor and middle class will be forced to pay the lion's share and if they survive the downturn, they will be taxed again by making them change over to the new technology. Where, pray tell, are they going to come up with the money to buy another NEW electric car when they barely had enough money to buy a used fossil fuel car. These costs must be borne by someone and Biden's stimulus ain't gonna do it. Short-sighted moron.

Please. Let's not pretend that any Trumpinista ever gave a single shit about anyone but themselves. It is the hallmark of the Republican party in the 21st century.
Moving to medicare for all will reduce our national health care costs by trillions annually.
Moving away from fossil fuels will reduce health impacts of fossils.
Moving away from fossils will reduce air and water pollution and the costs of addressing those issues
Moving away from fossils will reduce our need to provide military support to dictatorships around the world.
And there's more...

Better health, cleaner environment, reducing impacts of climate change, fewer global conflicts, putting Russia's nuts in a vice...
And you're whining about a small fuel tax.

Pie in the sky, la la la, nobody has to pay for anything. The world is free. La La La, I have become a democrat brainless minion. NOT. Wise up moron. You've been drinking Piglosi's koolaid too long.

So I talk about the need to raise taxes and you say "nobody has to pay for anything?" Just how stupid are you? No, wait, I'm sorry. I should give you a question you, at your obviously minimal mental capacity should be able to answer.

How many fingers can you fit in each nostril?
We'll wait while you work on the answer.

 

[LeftofLeft]

President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds. What a refreshing day. Our divisive, erratic, foolish, conspiratorial, narcissistic President is gone, replaced by a President who deeply wants to unite us. Barring ill-advised preconceived notions about President Biden, his task should be easy. We are all Americans.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons, not unlike 81 million Americans who did the same, I am a conservative Independent. That's official. In CA, we have to declare our political posture. Until I was driven out by Trump, for over a quarter of a century I was a declared Republican. I voted for Biden, but I have some reservations concerning him, mostly having to do with taxation and spending.

I said all that because I want to be honest with readers. I want them to know where I am coming from.

Whether or not Biden will be a good President is obviously an open question, but I think he is a good man. He will do his best to unite us and adopt policies that benefit all Americans, while removing those policies that do us harm. He wants the United States to rejoin the community of nations, and the days of isolation and making unitary decisions that involve other nations, in particular our traditional allies, are over.

The European Union's top politician, Ursula von der Leyen, said it best. "After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House."

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America created by a popular President. 59% of Americans approve of Biden.

On day one, Trump's approval rating was 40%, and, although it went lower than that, it never got much higher. Thus the reason for American optimism.

Taxes may be necessary. We may need to roll back the trump bush and Reagan tax breaks.

Spending cuts are a higher priority.

Of course now that democrats are in charge republicans become fiscal hawks.

Lets start with the pentagon and corporate welfare.

Let’s cut the bullshit. The Left always goes after defense spending or corporate tax incentives as items to be cut. Or, the Left cries that spending cuts means Social Welfare will be cut. Social welfare, defense spending, and corporate incentives aren’t going away.

Here is the shit I am talking about. Pakistan is going to get $10M for gender studies??? There is no way that is coming from the Conservative side of the aisle. How about $3M to bio labs in China? It’s shit like this that needs to be cut.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Senate Republicans say Trump should be held accountable for the insurrection he incited ... but not by them.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune, the No. 2 Republican, said "No -- not at all," when asked if he can defend what Trump did. "The way he handled the post-election, both in terms of his public statements and things that he tried to do to change the outcome, no."

When asked what Republicans should do about it, Thune replied, "Well, that's a good question. One way, obviously, would be in a court of law."

The last is a sentiment I agree with, but that is beside the point. It's too late. There will be a Senate trial and Thune will vote to acquit Trump.

"I think he's been held accountable in the court of public opinion already," Sen. John Cornyn said. Cornyn is another GOP leader.

"I've already condemned them," GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said when asked if he could defend Trump's actions.

Asked what Republicans should do about it, Cassidy said: "There is something in our nation called due process and there are things called kangaroo courts. We don't need a kangaroo court."

Is Cassidy saying a trial in the Senate would be a "kangaroo court?" Cassidy never has made much sense.

Sen. Mike Braun said: "I think he's going to be held accountable in the way that people sort him out with whatever he intends to do in the future."

Little doubt the American people will hold Republicans accountable for their actions. A part of that has already happened. Since 2016, Republicans have lost the House, the Senate, and the White House.

Senate Republicans say Trump should be held accountable for riot -- but not by them helped in the writing of this report.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules."

“We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
***********************************************************************President Donald J. Trump

Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin.

CNN reports, "It was a dramatic development in the second impeachment trial for Trump, who has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case. And now, with legal briefs due next week and a trial set to begin only days later, Trump is clinging to his election fraud charade and suddenly finds himself without legal representation."

"Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, who were expected to be two of the lead attorneys, are no longer on the team. A source familiar with the changes said it was a mutual decision for both to leave the legal team. As the lead attorney, Bowers assembled the team.

"Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney who was recently added to the team, has also left, according to another source familiar with the changes. Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris, from South Carolina, are no longer involved with the case, either.

"No other attorneys have announced they are working on Trump's impeachment defense."

Interesting how Trump's supporters are avoiding this important issue like the plague. Ignorance is bliss, I would suppose.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin.

Trump's office announced that David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. will now head the legal team for his second impeachment trial, a day after five members of his defense left and his team effectively collapsed. The trial begins in nine days.

CNN reports, "Trump has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case as he refuses to budge from his claims of election fraud which has been a serious sticking point.

"Trump's advisers have been talking to him about his legal strategy and he keeps bringing up election fraud for his defense, while they have repeatedly tried to steer him away from that, according to a source familiar with those discussions.

"It's unclear if Schoen and Castor will go along with what Trump wants."

"Schoen has already been working with the 45th President and other advisors to prepare for the upcoming trial, and both Schoen and Castor agree that this impeachment is unconstitutional - a fact 45 Senators voted in agreement with last week," the release says.

The inability to understand reality is a sure sign of mental illness. Trump is still living a fantasy.

Maybe GOP Senators will argue that Trump is innocent by reason of mental defect. Might work, too. Many know that Trump is nuts.

 

[BS Filter]

If you're a commie, Biden gets an A+.

 

[sealybobo]

“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules."

“We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
***********************************************************************President Donald J. Trump

Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin.

CNN reports, "It was a dramatic development in the second impeachment trial for Trump, who has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case. And now, with legal briefs due next week and a trial set to begin only days later, Trump is clinging to his election fraud charade and suddenly finds himself without legal representation."

"Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, who were expected to be two of the lead attorneys, are no longer on the team. A source familiar with the changes said it was a mutual decision for both to leave the legal team. As the lead attorney, Bowers assembled the team.

"Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney who was recently added to the team, has also left, according to another source familiar with the changes. Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris, from South Carolina, are no longer involved with the case, either.

"No other attorneys have announced they are working on Trump's impeachment defense."

Interesting how Trump's supporters are avoiding this important issue like the plague. Ignorance is bliss, I would suppose.

Rudy will take the case, hopefully

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Ten Republican senators on Sunday announced plans to unveil a roughly $600 billion Covid-19 relief package, a counterproposal to President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion plan meant to force relief talks with the White House back to the middle.

Politico writes, "Biden is leaning on doctors and health experts to publicly detail his Covid policy. He’s relying on his Cabinet, economic advisers and other high-ranking administration officials to help sell his nearly $2 trillion rescue package. Biden’s press team, meanwhile, is standing in for their boss by blanketing TV programs with pledges to tell the truth even when it’s inconvenient. It’s one of the more arresting shifts after four years of a president who delighted in torturing the media with sudden pronouncements that often surprised and befuddled his own advisers."

Isn't this refreshing. We now have a President who is actually doing his job. He is not looking to make headlines with outrageous statements. Biden is not interested in creating conspiracies where none exist.

He just wants to do his job. The Presidency is boring again.

Ain't life grand?

 

[sealybobo]

Ten Republican senators on Sunday announced plans to unveil a roughly $600 billion Covid-19 relief package, a counterproposal to President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion plan meant to force relief talks with the White House back to the middle.

Politico writes, "Biden is leaning on doctors and health experts to publicly detail his Covid policy. He’s relying on his Cabinet, economic advisers and other high-ranking administration officials to help sell his nearly $2 trillion rescue package. Biden’s press team, meanwhile, is standing in for their boss by blanketing TV programs with pledges to tell the truth even when it’s inconvenient. It’s one of the more arresting shifts after four years of a president who delighted in torturing the media with sudden pronouncements that often surprised and befuddled his own advisers."

Isn't this refreshing. We now have a President who is actually doing his job. He is not looking to make headlines with outrageous statements. Biden is not interested in creating conspiracies where none exist.

He just wants to do his job. The Presidency is boring again.

Ain't life grand?

Remember republicans said Obama’s recovery was too slow and took too long? Well, give biden the money he needs to speed up the recovery. When do I get my shot?

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump Republicans -- 138 of whom still think the election was stolen -- want to oust Liz Cheney (Wyo.) as chair of the House Republican Conference to punish her after her vote to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Cheney voted her conscience.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia enjoys the good graces of House Republicans. Videos and social media activity from 2018 and 2019 show Greene harassing a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, falsely suggesting that several deadly school and mass shootings were staged. She also indicated support for executing prominent Democrats, and expressing approval of far-right conspiracy theories.

The Times reports, "In the days after the attack on the Capitol, hopes began rising among some Republicans that their party would make a clean break from Donald J. Trump once he was no longer president.

"Well, Mr. Trump has now left Washington. And, yet, Republicans remain scared of his shadow.

"As the former president putts around Mar-a-Lago, the vast majority of his party has stayed faithful to his lingering political legacy."

The Senate hasn’t even begun Trump’s second impeachment trial, but an acquittal already appears preordained. 45 Republicans in the Senate supported the ludicrous contention that trying an ex-president would be unconstitutional — essentially trying to invalidate the entire process while being able to ignore what Trump did and said.

Trump will be charged with inciting an insurrection and attempting to deny the will of the American people with a month long effort.

Republicans know that is exactly what happened. Trump indicted himself.

So, they don't want to talk about it. They will spend all their time on the process, the foolish notion that the trail is unconstitutional.

The Times writes, "The party’s rush to judgment is even more surprising given that Senate Republicans are all witnesses, as well as jurors, in this trial. Most were in the chamber during the attack, eventually fleeing to shelter within the Capitol complex. A few could even be considered co-defendants for stoking the baseless claims about election fraud that incited the riot."

The fear Republicans have of Trump appears to be unreasonable. During his stewardship, the GOP lost the House, the Senate, and the White House.

One would think Republicans would want to rid themselves of Trump and his violent base.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Biden is working with ten centrist Republicans to get the Covid relief package to desperate Americans. Today he met with the group of Senate Republicans who were pitching a scaled-down coronavirus relief package, while Democratic congressional leaders took a step forward in laying the groundwork to pass Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill with only Democratic votes.

With 10 Republicans on board, joining the Senate’s 50 Democrats, a bipartisan bill could overcome the chamber’s 60-vote filibuster rule.

That's the good news.

The bad news is there is considerable disparity between the Biden plan and the Republican plan, and Democrats have shown little enthusiasm for a measure that amounts to less than one-third of what the President says is needed.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, played down expectations of the meeting. “What this meeting is not is a forum for the president to make or accept an offer,” Psaki told reporters.

One is getting the impression that there will be unity in our government if the Republicans do what Biden wants them to do.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Biden is working with ten centrist Republicans to get the Covid relief package to desperate Americans. Today he met with the group of Senate Republicans who were pitching a scaled-down coronavirus relief package, while Democratic congressional leaders took a step forward in laying the groundwork to pass Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill with only Democratic votes.

CNN reports, "A Republican senator said President Biden was fully engaged in the policy discussion last night, but didn’t commit to either using reconciliation or not using that process to advance a Covid relief package without GOP votes.

"Asked if Biden indicated a willingness to drop the $1.9 trillion price tag, the senator told CNN: “I think he himself wants to come down and wants to work with us. I don't know about his team.'"

 

[Sandy Shanks]

NBC News reports, "Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday after being questioned about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality," McConnell said.

This has all happened before. Sens. McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, Romney, and others have been critical of a Republican's behavior -- most of the time, Trump -- but they never do anything. Several were highly critical of Trump in the first impeachment. Only Romney voted to convict Trump. So, while the evidence showed that Trump was guilty of an impeachable offense, Senate Republicans acquitted him.

It is extremely likely that will happen again, emboldening future Presidents. It is okay to incite an insurrection against the American capital as long as the President's party has sufficient power in the Senate to prevent conviction of sedition.

Although that can happen with a Democratic President just as easily as a Republican President, Republicans don't mind the dangerous precedent they will be setting.

So, history has shown that McConnell's condemnation of Greene is just talk. It doesn't mean a damn thing.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump's lawyers misspelled United States!

In a legal brief on Tuesday, they addressed their arguments to the “Unites States Senate.”

Boy, that says it all right there.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The Hill reports, "Lawyers representing former President Trump on Tuesday detailed the defense they’ll lay out at next week’s impeachment trial, arguing that it is unconstitutional to impeach a former president and that Trump’s speech did not directly lead to the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.

"The defense brief argues that Trump’s speech before a group of supporters, some of whom later sacked the Capitol, was protected under the First Amendment. And it accuses Democrats of depriving Trump of due process by rushing impeachment through the House."

One has to seriously ask, is that a joke.

“The constitutional provision requires that a person actually hold office to be impeached,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

That is a lie. It does not say that anywhere in the Constitution. The President is responsible for what he does from his first day in office to his last day in office. The President doesn't get a mulligan for what he does in January.

“It is denied he threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch Government," the brief said.

Apparently, Trump's lawyers are unaware of what Trump said on Jan. 6.

“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules."

“We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
**********************************************************************President Donald J. Trump

After hours went by watching the mob he had incited attack our capitol Trump declared on video, "This was a fraudulent election but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. We love you. You're very special. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil but go home and go home in peace."

Senate Republicans will acquit Trump.

The American people will not.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Politico reports, "President Joe Biden said he's open to refining key elements of his nearly $2 trillion coronavirus package during a call with House Democrats on Wednesday, but stressed the urgency of delivering the massive relief bill quickly to the pandemic-stricken nation.

"Biden told the House Democratic Caucus that he was willing to compromise on who will be eligible for the next round stimulus checks — but remained firm on the size of the $1,400 check, according to multiple sources on the call."

Biden should take a close look at that. Millions of Americans like me should not receive stimulus checks. It is a waste of taxpayer money.

My wife and I received the two stimulus checks. Although we are retired, we are still saving money, not withdrawing it from savings or investments. Consequently, both checks went straight into our investments.

That's not right. The money should go only to those who desperately need it.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga has promoted QAnon, the debunked conspiracy theory that imagines former President Trump is leading a fight against a government controlled by a global deep state cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles. On social media, YouTube videos and elsewhere, she has said Muslims don’t belong in government, suggested the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting and others were staged, and repeatedly endorsed executing Democratic leaders.

NBC News reports, " House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that the House would vote Thursday on whether to strip embattled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., of her committee assignments after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed to take action against her.

On Jan. 6, 138 House Republicans supported Trump's assertion that the election was stolen from him. They played a major role in the events that occurred on that day, which led to Trump's impeachment.

It is anticipated that the vast majority of House Republicans will follow McCarthy's lead tomorrow and vote to do nothing with respect to Greene.

Trump's impeachment trial begins next week. It is a virtual certainty that the vast majority of Senate Republicans will completely ignore the evidence of what Trump did and said leading up to the insurrection on the sixth and vote to acquit Trump. Five people were killed that day, including a police officer and the capitol was seriously vandalized.

What does all this say about the direction of the Republican Party?

 

[BluesLegend]

Breaking: Biden's approval rating already below 50%, Obama's was in the 60's at this point.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

NBC News reports, " House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that the House would vote Thursday on whether to strip embattled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., of her committee assignments after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed to take action against her.

“No matter what [McCarthy] does it would never be enough for the hate America Democrats,” Greene wrote on Twitter. “They are only set out to destroy Republicans, your jobs, our economy, your children’s education and lives, steal our freedoms, and erase God’s creation.”

Boy, this is one sick lady.

 

[Oldestyle]

President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds. What a refreshing day. Our divisive, erratic, foolish, conspiratorial, narcissistic President is gone, replaced by a President who deeply wants to unite us. Barring ill-advised preconceived notions about President Biden, his task should be easy. We are all Americans.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons, not unlike 81 million Americans who did the same, I am a conservative Independent. That's official. In CA, we have to declare our political posture. Until I was driven out by Trump, for over a quarter of a century I was a declared Republican. I voted for Biden, but I have some reservations concerning him, mostly having to do with taxation and spending.

I said all that because I want to be honest with readers. I want them to know where I am coming from.

Whether or not Biden will be a good President is obviously an open question, but I think he is a good man. He will do his best to unite us and adopt policies that benefit all Americans, while removing those policies that do us harm. He wants the United States to rejoin the community of nations, and the days of isolation and making unitary decisions that involve other nations, in particular our traditional allies, are over.

The European Union's top politician, Ursula von der Leyen, said it best. "After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House."

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America created by a popular President. 59% of Americans approve of Biden.

On day one, Trump's approval rating was 40%, and, although it went lower than that, it never got much higher. Thus the reason for American optimism.

He's only been president for less than 8 hours, so it might be a little early for his first report card, but he hasn't grabbed anybody by the pussy or given Russians top secret information in an unannounced oval office meeting, or pissed off all our top allies, so I'll give him a little while before I start judging his presidency. He could have shook his dick at the troops from the capitol steps and still been more suitable to be president than that pig that just left.

Biden actually DID grab someone by the pussy! Trump only SAID he did it! How long do you think it will be before Joe the Perv is shaking his dick at female Secret Service agents again? Or has the Secret Service given him an all male protective detail because they already know about his "problem" with exposing himself?