Tag: Joe Biden
Biden Entreats God to Enlighten Republicans
“God, give some of our Republican friends some enlightenment.”
— President Joe Biden, campaigning in Florida Tuesday, the AP reports.
Biden: Putin ‘Miscalculated’ With Ukraine Invasion
“I think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly.”
— President Biden told CNN that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin badly misjudged his ability to invade Ukraine and suppress its people.
Zelensky to Biden: ‘I Wish You to Be the Leader of the World”
“You are the leader of the nation, I wish you to be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.”
— Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, in a virtual address the the U.S. Congress.
Most Americans Don’t Believe Biden Will Run Again
52%
A new Wall Street Journal poll found that 52% of Americans don’t think Joe Biden will run for re-election in two years, while 29% do expect him to pursue a second term. Nineteen percent are undecided about his future. Among Democrats, 41% said they think Biden will run again, while 32% said they didn’t think he would. The poll found 26% of those Democrats unsure.
On Biden, Press Conferences and Cuomo
Joe Biden has been president for nearly two months, and it would seem his honeymoon with the media (if there is such a thing) has ended, with criticism coming from all quarters for his lack of press conferences and for his staying on the sidelines of the trainwreck that is Andrew Cuomo’s gubernatorial career.
First, the fact is Biden held two town halls since the election where the questions from regular people were thoughtful and meaningful — a refreshing contrast to the White House press corps’ attempts to illicit a gotcha. He also regularly responds to questions hollered at him by journalists as he passes from one place to another.
Finally, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds regular press conferences where she handles media queries with poise, skill and little prevaricating, if not some expected deflection. That’s a far cry from her predecessors in the same position in the Trump administration who, when they did give a rare press conference, mainly just repeated their boss’ lies and took questions only from friendly representatives of conservative media outlets.
On the Cuomo question, Biden and his team have been consistent in witholding judgement pending a complete investigation of the allegations against New York’s governor. The attempt to paint Biden into a corner as the only person who can prevent a damaging rift between the Democratic Party and Cuomo is ludicrous. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have already done that — with Gillibrand’s trigger finger being only slightly less itchy than when she called for Sen. Al Franken’s resignation BEFORE an investigation of sexual harrassment allegations. Cuomo is only hurting Cuomo, not the Democratic Party, and his political party is in no greater danger from his truculence and intractability than the Knights of Columbus are from his Italian lineage.
But think for a moment — what if Donald Trump were still president.
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Biden Looks Back to S.C. Primary a Year Ago
“As I look back on what happened in South Carolina one year ago, it’s amazing how much can change in a day, never mind a whole year. My hope is that a year from now, Americans are able to look back and marvel at how much has changed — in their lives and in our economy — for the better.”
— President Joe Biden, writing on Medium, one year after winning the South Carolina Democratic primary.
Biden’s Most Frequent Question — And His Answer
“The question I’m asked most often is, ‘When will things get back to normal?’ My answer is always honest and straightforward — I can’t give you a date. I can only promise that we’ll work as hard as we can to make that day come as soon as possible.”
— President Biden, quoted by CBS News.
Biden: We Can’t Do Too Much
The one thing we learned is we can’t do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter.”
— President Joe Biden, quoted by Bloomberg, meeting with House Democratic leaders and committee chairs on the Covid-19 relief package.
Rick Scott is the U.S. Senate’s Whiner-In-Chief
The image is pathetic: Florida’s freshman U.S. Sen. Rick Scott sitting by his pink princess phone, waiting for the call that never came. Then whining on the Fox News Rundown podcast:
“He’s not called me to say ‘Oh, how can I be helpful in the things that are important to your state?’ … He doesn’t care one iota. He just has this radical left agenda he’s fulfilling, but it’s not good for American families.”
The image is also a complete fantasy. As is the notion that the incoming president of the United States should take the time out of his first busy week in office to call the freshman senator from a state that didn’t support him in the recent fair and legal election.
We would wager that Rick Scott is pretty close to the bottom of the list of 100 U.S. senators Joe Biden is likely to call — ever.
But Scott isn’t done whining. His idea of bipartisanship, apparently, is: If I go to your inauguration, you have to call me.
“President Biden’s been pretty disappointing to me,” Scott noted. “I went to his inauguration. He gave a talk about unity. And then he spent the next seven days doing everything but unity.”
This from the guy who voted against Biden’s cabinet nominations for Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Oh, and he was also among the 45 senators who voted that Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is unconstitutional.
Not to mention he was one of eight Senate Republicans to vote against certifying the election results.
Hey Rick, stay near that phone. I’m sure Joe’s call will come any minute now ….
