Biden takes victory lap

[PoliTalker]

Hello Cypress,

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Biden Takes Victory Lap After Avoiding The Traditional Midterm 'Shellacking'

Democrats will lose the House, but by nowhere near the margins anticipated, and have a good chance of retaining the Senate

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden took a victory lap Wednesday after pulling off the best midterm election results in two decades.

“It was a good day, I think, for democracy. And it was a good day for America,” Biden said in remarks at a news conference in the State Dining Room.

Biden, in a rare formal question-and-answer session with reporters, was clearly pleased with the unexpectedly good showing from Democrats on Tuesday.

“This was supposed to be a red wave. You guys were talking about us losing 30 to 50 seats,” he said, using a handheld microphone to step around the lectern.

Biden said that the results show that many voters support his policies, and that he believes that support will grow as other pieces of his agenda, like caps on prescription drug costs or construction projects from his infrastructure law, come to fruition.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-post-election-news-conference_n_636be4a7e4b03438613f3fe8

Like him or not, Joe Biden is our president. And he is doing a basically good job. Democrats represent sanity and maturity.

America chose to stay with proven results, having lost the taste for wild extremism, the old con job, and outright lies.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello evince,

It’s nice to see trump is finally fading away

Yes, but Trumpism lingers.

 

[Cypress]

Hello Cypress,



Like him or not, Joe Biden is our president. And he is doing a basically good job. Democrats represent sanity and maturity.

America chose to stay with proven results, having lost the taste for wild extremism, the old con job, and outright lies.

I actually think when you place Biden in a historical context, he has arguably had the most successful legislative agenda of any first term president in half a century.

The 2021-22 legislative session included a massive economic stimulus bill, a ginormous Landmark infrastructure bill, a groundbreaking watershed climate change bill, and landmark bills on healthcare, corporate taxes, and American economic competitiveness.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello Cypress,

I actually think when you place Biden in a historical context, he has arguably had the most successful legislative agenda of any first term president in half a century.

The 2021-22 legislative session included a massive economic stimulus bill, a ginormous Landmark infrastructure bill, a groundbreaking watershed climate change bill, and landmark bills on healthcare, corporate taxes, and American economic competitiveness.

It's true. Agreed. And the phenomenal thing about it is that this was done with a very slim majority.

Generally, it is not possible to pass landmark legislation with a slim majority.

We really owe a lot to Manchin and Sinema for coming around.

Manchin also deserves praise for putting the brakes on spending way back before inflation took off.

 

[LurchAddams]

Losing the house is losing the house...losing the ballgame by 1 instead of 20 is still losing the game...


YOU LOST!

No, it's no the same as having an overwhelming majority, twumptard. With a slim majority there's very little the house can do, especially a GOP majority, where there will be a girl fight between the non-twumptards who want to pass laws and govern, and between the twumptard sewer who wants nothing but revenge investigations and impeachments.

Whoever the speaker is - and it's looking like poor Kevin might not get it - is going to have they dirty hands full.

 

[LurchAddams]

Nope, not in politics.

You and your MAGA boyfriends spent the last six months claiming that the American electorate was so outraged, so disgusted with Biden that they would send him a message with a massive Red Tsunami.

The message that was sent yesterday is that there is no outpouring of seething anger against Biden, and Republicans were not given a mandate to go scorched earth.

A house majority is powerless to indict or jail anyone. The power of indictment lies with the Biden Justice Department.


The only power the House has is the subpoena for calling for testimony. And your hero Trump set the precedent that the Executive branch can just ignore congressional subpoenas.

Precisely!