What a crass peasant Biden is. "I am going to Colorado, then I have to do Harry Reid's funeral." I guess he is going to the funeral because his staff says he must.
Shiite-For-Brains Kamala says her biggest problem has been in not getting out of DC more. Sure, like maybe not going to the border even though members of your own party have been begging you to go there and talk with them. She and her handlers are making a lame arse attempt - over and over again- to say that Kamala's problem is that people have not gotten to know her and she needs to get out in the country to fix that. Nope. Other way around. The more they get to know her, the less they like her. She got outside of DC plenty during the campaign and she ended out dropping out of the race before Iowa because the more they saw of her, the less they liked. As I said many times, when your own home state of California- which presumably knows you- does not support you in the primary that is a bad sign. Also she is tone deaf and totally unable to take advice from her staff and she bullies them instead. She is on her third set of staff and outside consultants who tell her to knock off that fucking laugh. NO PROGRESS WHATSOEVER. NONE. Trump's fault and racist republicans and democrats too I guess. No need to watch this. I won't inflict it on you. Just stay the first few seconds for her laugh- then say to yourself "Jeeeezuzz. I can't believe she is still doing that shiite", then you are done.
Kamala has gone through two complete sets of staff and three sets of outside communications consultants to help her get her act together. So, here we go again. New guy coming in. Trainwreck in progress before it even leaves the station. He has the skin color, so that is all that counts to her. Keep doing the same old shiite, and keep expecting different results. Let's see how he is looking here on day one. Oh, I see. They have uncovered that he has criticized Biden's insane immigration policies, and he contributed to Rand Paul's campaign. Last I knew, Rand Paul was some kind of republican/liberterian. Another train wreck shaping up. Just mix a little time into the pot, stir, let it set for a while, then bam. The more train wrecks she has, the more she labels us as a racists who cannot accept having a black woman in the office. Of course, the definition of "us" has now expanded to include all the black women who hate her guts and have left. Whatever. It's complicated. Not really. She is an idiot and tone deaf and obnoxious. Kavanaugh had to put up with it. Others don't. Kamala Harris’ New Comms Director Donated To Rand Paul’s Presidential Campaign, Filings Show https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...ential-campaign-filings-show/?sh=64e77a9a6c0f
The way this Biden/Kamala appearance in Georgia to hump and pump the voting rights bill is unfolding is sort of interesting and ugly for Biden. You have all the old Al Sharpton type retreads there but there are a lotttttttt of no-shows that either say they have scheduling conflicts or are fed up with Biden accomplishing nothing and don't want just be used as shills to help him. Oh, and Stacey Abrams can't make it. Scheduling conflict. The President of the United States appears in her state to speak on voting rights- her main area of "work"- and she has a scheduling conflict. Okay, like what? Jalepeno poppers are on sale down at Arby's or something or you have appear the View? What a mess. Republican's fault no doubt. King family: ‘Difficult decision’ to attend Biden’s voting rights speech “It’s been a long year of a lot of things not being done, and we stand and we share that frustration,” Arndrea Waters King said. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/11/king-family-biden-voting-rights-speech-526873 Georgia voting rights groups boycott Biden's Atlanta speech: 'We don't need even more photo ops. We need action' (CNN)A coalition of voting rights groups in Georgia announced Monday that they will not attend events surrounding President Joe Biden's expected visit to Atlanta, urging for concrete action instead of what they called a "photo op." Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and representatives of several voting rights groups urged Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to remain in Washington on Tuesday if they don't have a clear plan to advance voting rights legislation. Some of the groups that urged Biden to skip his Atlanta trip are the Asian American Advocacy Fund, GALEO Impact Fund Inc. and New Georgia Project Action Fund. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/politics/georgia-voting-rights-advocates-biden-visit/index.html
Simone Sanders lands over at MSDNC. And like where else would she go? Kind of a lousy set-up. She is fired/removed from Kamala's staff because she was unable to clean up Kamala's and Joe's messes, so she is being brought in over there to defend Biden and Kamala. You would think that she might want to open a fast-food franchise or sell Tupperware or sell gold with Rosland Capital or something for a change but spreading bullshiite is her trade. Expect her to tell everyone that Kamala is a change agent and an historical transitional figure and that everything is fine over in Kamp Kamala. People just cannot adjust to her greatness. Even though everything is not fine, in fact that is why Simone Sanders is not there now. DUH. Kamala Harris' ex-top aide Symone Sanders lands a job at Biden administration cheerleader MSNBC less than two weeks after she left the VP's office amid plummeting polls and a torrent of bullying and turmoil claims https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...b-Biden-administration-cheerleader-MSNBC.html
Joe just piling up the failures. No good news in sight. I guess the hope is that omicron will fizzle for reasons that have nothing to do with Biden, so there is that possibility. Then there will be other viruses beyond that. Probably they will claim some kind of victory if the world is able to fend off an invasion of the Ukraine - except there is only one reason why the Ukraine is at risk of being invaded in the first place and that is because the bad actors in the world see who the president is. I saw Kamala do some kind of trainwreck interview on friendly turf yesterday. MSDNC. I harken back to the early days when I used to say over and over and over again that -although everyone is focused on Biden- she seems punchdrunk as hell to me. I will let you know when I change my view on that. It will not be this week. Jeeesuzzzzz H. what a mess. Honest to gawd, I could walk into Dunkin Donuts in any town in America today and find two people more qualified to be president and vp within minutes. As voting rights push fizzles, Biden's failure to unite his own party looms again satoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/14/sinema-voting-rights-biden-agenda/6513053001/?gnt-cfr=1
Biden’s Georgia Speech Is a Break Point It is startling when two speeches within 24 hours, neither much heralded in advance—the second wouldn’t even have been given without the first—leave you knowing you have witnessed a seminal moment in the history of an administration, but it happened this week. The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him. By the end of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s answering speech on Wednesday you knew some new break point had occurred, that President Biden might have thought he was just crooning to part of his base but the repercussions were greater than that; he was breaking in some new way with others—and didn’t know it. It is poor political practice when you fail to guess the effects of your actions. He meant to mollify an important constituency but instead he filled his opponents with honest indignation and, I suspect, encouraged in that fractured group some new unity. The speech itself was aggressive, intemperate, not only offensive but meant to offend. It seemed prepared by people who think there is only the Democratic Party in America, that’s it, everyone else is an outsider who can be disparaged. It was a mistake on so many levels. Presidents more than others in politics have to maintain an even strain, as astronauts used to say. If a president is rhetorically manipulative and divisive on a voting-rights bill it undercuts what he’s trying to establish the next day on Covid and the economy. The over-the-top language of the speech made him seem more emotional, less competent. The portentousness—“In our lives and . . . the life of our nation, there are moments so stark that they divide all that came before them from everything that followed. They stop time”—made him appear incapable of understanding how the majority of Americans understand our own nation’s history and the vast array of its challenges. By the end he looked like a man operating apart from the American conversation, not at its center. This can be fatal to a presidency. He was hardly done speaking when a new Quinnipiac poll showed the usual low Biden numbers, but, most pertinently, that 49% of respondents say he is doing more to divide the country, and only 42% see him as unifying it. In the speech Mr. Biden claimed he stands against “the forces in America that value power over principle.” Last year Georgia elected two Democratic senators. “And what’s been the reaction of Republicans in Georgia? Choose the wrong way, the undemocratic way. To them, too many people voting in a democracy is a problem.” They want to “suppress the right to vote.” They want to “subvert the election.” This is “Jim Crow 2.0,” it’s “insidious,” it’s “the kind of power you see in totalitarian states, not in democracies.” The problem is greater than Georgia. “The United States Senate . . . has been rendered a shell of its former self.” Its rules must be changed. “The filibuster is not used by Republicans to bring the Senate together but to pull it further apart. The filibuster has been weaponized and abused.” Senators will now “declare where they stand, not just for the moment, but for the ages.” Most wince-inducing: “Will you stand against election subversion? Yes or no? . . . Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace ? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor ? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?” If a speech can be full of itself this speech was. From the floor of the Senate the next day came Mr. McConnell’s rebuke. It was stinging, indignant to the point of seething. He didn’t attempt to scale any rhetorical heights. The plainness of his language was ferocious. Mr. Biden’s speech was “profoundly unpresidential,” “deliberately divisive” and “designed to pull our country further apart.” “I have known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.” Mr. Biden had entered office calling on Americans to stop the shouting and lower the temperature. “Yesterday, he called millions of Americans his domestic ‘enemies.’ ” That, a week after he “gave a January 6th lecture about not stoking political violence.” “Twelve months ago, this president said that ‘disagreement must not lead to disunion.’ But yesterday, he invoked the bloody disunion of the Civil War to demonize Americans who disagree with him. He compared a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors.” “Twelve months ago, the president said that ‘politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.’ . . . Yesterday he poured a giant can of gasoline on that fire.” “In less than a year, ‘restoring the soul of America’ has become: Agree with me, or you’re a bigot.” “This inflammatory rhetoric was not an attempt to persuade skeptical Democratic or Republican senators. In fact, you could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than a president abandoning rational persuasion for pure demagoguery.” American voters, said Mr. McConnell, “did not give President Biden a mandate for very much.” They didn’t give him big majorities in Congress. But they did arguably give him a mandate to bridge a divided country. “It is the one job citizens actually hired him to do.” He has failed to do it. Then Mr. McConnell looked at Mr. Biden’s specific claims regarding state voting laws. “The sitting president of the United States of America compared American states to ‘totalitarian states.’ He said our country will be an ‘autocracy’ if he does not get his way.” The world has now seen an American president “propagandize against his own country to a degree that would have made Pravda blush.” “He trampled through some of the most sensitive and sacred parts of our nation’s past. He invoked times when activists bled, and when soldiers died. All to demagogue voting laws that are more expansive than what Democrats have in his own home state.” “A president shouting that 52 senators and millions of Americans are racist unless he gets whatever he wants is proving exactly why the Framers built the Senate to check his power.” What Mr. Biden was really doing was attempting to “delegitimize the next election in case they lose it.” Now, he said, “It is the Senate’s responsibility to protect the country.” That sounded very much like a vow. It won’t be good for Joe Biden. When national Democrats talk to the country they always seem to be talking to themselves. They are of the left, as is their constituency, which wins the popular vote in presidential elections; the mainstream media through which they send their messages is of the left; the academics, historians and professionals they consult are of the left. They get in the habit of talking to themselves, in their language, in a single, looped conversation. They have no idea how they sound to the non-left, so they have no idea when they are damaging themselves. But this week in Georgia Mr. Biden damaged himself. And strengthened, and may even have taken a step in unifying, the non-Democrats who are among their countrymen, and who are in fact the majority of them.
Well, Sleeparius Joe predicted a grim winter. He is certainly getting it. Bloomberg usually tries to clean him up a bit, but along with others, it is getting harder to put lipstick on that pig. Biden’s Bad Winter Gets Worse With Inflation, Virus and Russia U.S. president’s approval rating sours with agenda stalled Voting rights failure hints at problems with key voting blocs President Joe Biden entered the New Year with his signature economic plan stalled, inflation at 40-year highs and Russia threatening war in Ukraine. Somehow, things have only gotten worse. A series of setbacks this week further clouds the fate of Biden’s policy agenda and the trajectory of his presidency. Fresh data on inflation showed prices surging 7% last year, the most since 1982. A speech on voting rights riled Republicans, didn’t persuade holdout Democrats and was skipped by a star organizer, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Talks with Russia and Iran yielded no breakthroughs. Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations hit records, while the Supreme Court gutted Biden’s signature effort to goose vaccinations, blocking a rule that would have required businesses to mandate shots or weekly testing for employees. Biden’s attempted pivot to voting rights -- with a heralded speech in Atlanta, hometown of civil rights legends Martin Luther King Jr. and former Representative John Lewis -- is heading for a dead end, after a key Democratic senator, Kyrsten Sinema, declared she would not support changing Senate rules to pass legislation expanding access to the ballot over a Republican filibuster. The president’s focus on voting rights was intended as a signal to disaffected liberals and Black voters, whom his party badly needs to turn out for midterm elections in November. But his domestic troubles risk rippling overseas, emboldening adversaries poised to exploit a weakened U.S. president. Democrats are increasingly concerned that voters are poised to hand control of the House, Senate or both to Republicans. Approval Rating A Quinnipiac University poll this week found that 33% of Americans approve of Biden’s performance, while 53% disapprove. Another poll published this week by the Economist and YouGov found that 52% of Americans say the economy is getting worse, while just 15% say it’s improving. Biden’s political fortunes could improve in coming months if Covid recedes and the rate of inflation returns to normal levels. On Friday, Biden attempted to regroup, promoting a clear victory -- his bipartisan infrastructure law, now nearly three months behind him -- with an announcement of billions in funding for bridge construction. “There’s a lot of talk about disappointments in things we haven’t gotten done -- we’re going get a lot of them done, I might add,” Biden said. “But this is something we did get done. And it’s of enormous consequence to the country.” FOR MORE COVERAGE Biden Cites ‘Progress’ on Inflation Despite 7% Climb in 2021 Biden Hits Political Setback With Scant Hope for Voting Bill Biden Vaccine Push Hobbled by Courts as Onus Shifts to Business Democrats Pose Sharp Demand for Covid Answers from White House U.S. Warns of Russian False-Flag Campaign to Justify Ukraine War EU, Russia Expect Iran Atomic Deal as Beijing Holds Talks There’s no indication so far that Biden is considering the traditional response to White House floundering: replacing top aides. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday dismissed a question on whether the president is considering staff changes, citing a range of accomplishments over the past year. On Thursday evening, Biden hosted Sinema and Senator Joe Manchin, the two key Democratic holdouts on both voting rights and Biden’s nearly $2 trillion economic plan, Build Back Better. But it isn’t clear whether he can get either initiative on track toward passage. Voting Rights His Atlanta speech didn’t help. The remarks drew mixed reviews from civil rights groups, as some called on the White House to go beyond rhetoric in combating scores of laws passed by Republican-led states last year to restrict voting rights, inspired by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that Biden’s election was fraudulent. Black voters in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit were particularly targeted by Trump and his allies, and they are a crucial Democratic constituency who have so far seen little movement under Biden on either voting rights or police reform, another priority. Republicans, meanwhile, accused Biden of being divisive after he likened opponents of a federal voting rights expansion to Confederate leaders and notorious racists such as former Alabama Governor George Wallace. “I did not recognize the man at the podium,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said. Even Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s second-ranking Democrat, later said in a CNN interview that “perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric,” though he castigated Republicans for blocking legislation. Fresh signs of fissures in Biden’s party also emerged over his administration’s response to the latest surge in the pandemic, driven by the more transmissible omicron variant. Several groups of Democrats publicly criticized the White House for widespread testing shortages that have put the president and his spokespeople on the defensive. Virus Surges Coronavirus cases have soared since December, with about 1.5 million recorded on Monday. Both new cases and new hospitalizations stand at record levels. That has forced Biden -- elected in part on promises to quell the pandemic -- to grasp for yet another strategy in the face of tens of millions of Americans, many of them Republicans, who refuse to be vaccinated. This week, he announced he would double an order of 500 million at-home tests, placed just three weeks earlier, in order to send at least four to every American household that asks for them. He’s also mobilized military doctors, nurses and other staff to ease pressure at hospitals sagging under a surge of Covid patients and staff shortages fueled by he virus. Privacy Policyand Terms of Serviceand to receive offers and promotions from Bloomberg. Talks with Iran about returning to the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear weapons program have been similarly unproductive, with U.S. officials warning this month that Tehran’s rapidly expanding uranium-enrichment program will soon render the accord obsolete. “It is a critical time; it’s how the president sees it as well,” Psaki said. EU and Russian diplomats, though, said this week that a deal may be in sight. Biden will hold a rare news conference at the White House on Wednesday, a day before the anniversary of his inauguration. While he speaks regularly with reporters in informal encounters, it’s only the second formal domestic news conference of his presidency. Psaki downplayed concerns that the president is struggling to govern, citing the vaccination of some 200 million Americans since he took office, as well as economic growth and low unemployment. “The truth is, an agenda doesn’t wrap up in one year,” she said Friday. “We’re going to continue to fight for every component of his agenda.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...er-gets-worse-with-inflation-virus-and-russia