Democratic Clashes Hold Up Biden’s Agenda After Rocky Month - WSJ
By: By Catherine Lucey, Ken Thomas and Andrew Restuccia
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
WASHINGTON—President Biden’s political standing tumbled in September amid the fallout from the messy Afghanistan withdrawal, the flood of Haitian migrants at the Texas border and the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. The month ended with his legislative agenda caught between clashing Democratic factions, fueling the party’s anxiety about the path forward and their prospects in elections this year and next.
Mr. Biden traveled to the Capitol on Friday afternoon to try to advance his roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan and a separate healthcare, education and climate package , as leaders expressed optimism for a legislative breakthrough that would unite Democratic lawmakers. Administration officials acknowledged privately that the past few weeks had been the most trying of Mr. Biden’s presidency, but they are holding out hope that the agenda will clear Congress.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s in six minutes, six days or six weeks, we’re going to get it done,” Mr. Biden said after meeting with lawmakers Friday in which he called on House Democrats to delay voting on the infrastructure bill until they reach agreement on the separate spending package.
The clash in Congress followed efforts by Mr. Biden to bridge divides between moderate and progressive Democrats over trillions in infrastructure and social spending, with the roughly $3.5 trillion reconciliation price tag expected to drop. He delayed a planned trip to Chicago this week to keep his focus on talks on Capitol Hill and has held meetings and calls with lawmakers, in particular two moderate Democrats—Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona—who have objected to parts of the program.
The negotiations have brought long-simmering intraparty tensions into the open, with progressives publicly criticizing Mr. Manchin and Ms. Sinema, and the White House huddling behind the scenes with Democratic congressional leadership. Some progressive lawmakers grumbled earlier in the week that the White House had been paying too much attention to the two senators, but others said the talks were the only way to clinch an agreement that would move both packages forward, an outcome that is the priority for liberals.
Many Democrats see passage of Mr. Biden’s legislative agenda as vital ahead of next year’s midterm elections, which typically favor the party that doesn’t hold the White House. Anxiety has been rising among some in the party, particularly as Mr. Biden’s approval ratings slipped below 50% last month.
“You’ve got to give the enthusiasm gap a real consideration,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil-rights leader who has raised concerns that Mr. Biden’s handling of voting rights, immigration and police reform—Democratic proposals that have stalled in Congress—may depress turnout among Black voters in next year’s midterms. “I don’t think anybody expects him to walk on water, but we do expect that he can swim.”
Mr. Biden’s struggles have coincided with the stretch of this year’s most prominent campaign, in Virginia, where former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is seeking a return to office against Republican Glenn Youngkin, a political newcomer. The state’s gubernatorial campaign, held in the year after the presidential election, is often a leading indicator of the national political climate heading into the midterms.
Republicans view the Democrats’ legislative plans as an overreach of excess spending and have accused Mr. Biden of careening from one crisis to another, saying both will debilitate the party’s midterm message next year. “Vulnerable Democrats are going to be forced to retire, or they’re going to lose reelection,” said Rep. Tom Emmer (R., Minn.), who leads the House Republicans’ campaign arm.
Heading into the 2022 midterm elections, some Republicans also see potential risks ahead for their party. Among them: that centrist GOP voters and independents may be turned off by efforts to investigate and validate former President Donald Trump ’s false claims of widespread election fraud, and that laws introduced by Republicans to tighten voting rules may depress voter participation in both parties.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.), who heads the House Democratic campaign effort, said his party is tackling tough problems that Republicans didn’t when they were in power.
After eight months on the job, Mr. Biden is contending with thorny issues that have frustrated past presidents, and questions from both parties about his leadership decisions. The legislative challenges ended a month that was a roller-coaster ride for Mr. Biden’s presidency.
The Pentagon’s top military official called the recent Afghanistan exit, which included a drone strike that killed civilians, a “strategic failure,” hampering White House hopes of moving on from questions about the withdrawal. French officials accused the U.S. of betraying a longtime ally after leaving France in the dark over a secret nuclear submarine deal with Australia and the U.K. Democrats and Republicans slammed the handling of Haitian migrants at the Texas border . And mixed messages on booster shot eligibility fueled public frustration with the long-lasting Covid-19 pandemic.
Speaking at a Senate hearing on the Afghanistan exit, Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that “from an operational and tactical standpoint, [the evacuation] was successful. Strategically, the war was lost. The enemy is in Kabul.”
The surge of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, drew bipartisan criticism and tested Mr. Biden’s promises of a more humane immigration policy. During a meeting last week with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, lawmakers pressed top White House aides about the administration’s immigration policies, including the president’s decision to turn back many migrants at the border and deport Haitians to their home country, according to people in the meeting.
“We were very candid. No one bit their tongue,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), one of the attendees.
A White House official acknowledged that public frustration with the Covid-19 pandemic and the Afghanistan exit have taken a toll, but said that they continue to make progress with increasing vaccinations and view the public as supportive of the withdrawal overall. Passage of the president’s legislative agenda, Mr. Biden’s advisers hope, will boost the president’s political fortunes, noting that the bills have public support in recent polling.
Mr. Biden told lawmakers last week in a private meeting that he wants the public to see benefits from the spending packages quickly if they pass, according to a person there.
About half of the country supports the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the separate package for spending on healthcare, education and more, according to a September poll by the Pew Research Center . Far fewer oppose the legislation: 20% for the infrastructure package and 25% for the broader one. About a quarter of those polled were unsure about where they stood. Other surveys, including a September Fox News poll , have shown slightly higher support for the bills.
John Anzalone, Mr. Biden’s chief campaign pollster, said he believed the popularity of the policies the president has proposed in the infrastructure and reconciliation packages will help fend off any midterm losses.
“It has sustained its popularity over the last six months, even though there is a ton of money being spent against it,” he said.
Mr. Anzalone played down the president’s lagging approval ratings. “Polling numbers are going to bounce around,” he said, adding that Mr. Biden has “been around the block; he understands that.”
So in the end even after having Joe Biden talk to House members, Pelosi was forced to cave on the infrastructure bill because progressives dug in and insisted the other measure be must be considered by the House too or they'd vote against the infrastructure bill.
I would have liked the bi-partisan bill to have been passed. I don't like the entire bill but there are definitely more pieces in it that I do like and it dealt with real infrastructure issues that need to be fixed. We've kicked that can down the road for so many years that the number of bridges is downright scary. But after the way Biden and the Democrats acted after the Senate passed that bill, I can't really blame the Republicans from backing away from it. The way it was reported initially in the news, the R's went in to work with the D's to craft a bill that both sides would benefit from and would benefit the public. Once that went thru the Senate all the sudden Biden and the far left stated that it would not pass the House unless the other $3.5T bill was also passed as they both had to come to the WH together.
But this $3.5T bill... it's still being written, isn't it? Only a small portion I believe has been thru the CBO and has any sort of price/cost projections. How can anybody be expected to pass a bill that is basically a blank check?
That's an attempt to rewrite history. The Democrats made it clear that the passage of the 2 bills was connected from the get go.
That's not how I remember it. There were few voices calling for both to be passed together, mostly just the far left as I remember. It wasn't until it was passed that the leadership stated it would not be brought to the floor until the reconciliation bill was passed. As I remember it was around that time that the moderate D's in the House started their push for a vote on the first bill or they would not support reconciliation. It all seems muddled. Do you have any timeline docs to share?
I do not remember firm understanding from leadership that the two bills had to be passed together. I do remember the anger when Biden came out and said he would only sign both bills if they came to him together, even the WH had to do some damage control over that statement of his.
Well gee Snuffy, since YOU were the one to make the allegation that it happened 'all of a sudden', YOU should have that timeline...
Yet you claimed to remember a firm understanding that they weren't. Got a timeline for that?
That's why I asked if you had anything different.
Back in June (or perhaps earlier, not 100% sure) the Democrats were talking about the President's agenda and the huge bill they wanted to push. There were moderate Democrats in the Senate (and the House) who did not want a multi-trillion dollar bill going as far as the progressives wanted. They were working with the WH on a bi-partisan bill that would be more traditional infrastructure. The end of July it was announced they had come to an agreement on the bi-partisan bill.
Near the end of August the House passed it's budget and set the groundwork for the reconciliation bill to be started.
So while there was talk going all the way back to the campaign about what all the progressives wanted to push thru, that appeared to be more talk than anything because there was no bill that enough people would agree on. And before you can build a reconciliation bill you have to have submitted and passed your budget, the timeline does seem to match that the bi-partisan bill was there well before the second bill. And let's be honest here, politicians all like to talk and of course they push the rhetoric to their base but outside of their base how many really listen to it? I don't remember anybody saying the bi-partisan bill would not be passed without the reconciliation bill until Biden said it after the bi-partisan bill was passed in the Senate and handed to the House.
So do you have anything that shows different?
Well there's been 16 hours now to refute what I posted. But nothing has been posted so all I can guess is that someone's like a politician. Likes to talk, likes to argue, but ultimately just all hot air and no substance.
The president supports both bills, and has said that the reconcilation bill needs to be negotiated as to size. Democratic politicians that dont want to support the presidents agenda should get out of the party. I doubt either Manchin or Sinema could get elected as Republicans because they would lose in the party primaries because the opponent would claim they are too "liberal".
As far as there being a "deadline" to pass these two bills. Nonsense. That is media created bs just designed to create conflict for them to report on. Unless there is an artificial "deadline" there is no need for media breathlessness.
It came out last week that Manchin said 1.5 trillion is his upper limit . Biden appears to think that is too low. I think they will "quietly" agree on 2 trillion and Manchin will say he raised his upper limit because he is convinced it is "paid for".
That's just silly, of course there is a deadline.
How does it go again? And silence ensues.....
Yes, he has stated he supports both bills and wants both bills passed. I feel that is more for his legacy than anything else however. But he did come out after the bi-partisan bill was agreed to and stated he would only sign that if the reconciliation bill was also passed. I like some pieces of the reconciliation bill but feel there's too much give-away in there to justify it. Take for example immigration, the system has been broken for many years and does need to be fixed but the inclusion of immigration into the reconciliation bill is one party pushing their change on a broken system. Same with pre-K care. Take these pieces as stand-alone bills and work like politicians for the good of the country rather than for the good of your party.
Both parties have their "traitors" who do not automatically follow party lines. This to me is just one more example of how much power and control the two parties have taken and the people blindly allow it.
And there I thought the House moderates struck a deal with Pelosi for a Sept 27th vote which then got pushed to Thursday. The media does what it does and is all breathless when those timelines are not met but the deadline was set by House leadership.
When leadership wants to "force" compromise they announce "deadlines". If the tactic doesnt work they announce new deadlines . IMO, big deal. Or I should say no big deal.
Without the media running around like headless chickens why would anyone care about artificial "deadlines" being extended?
Before there is any passage of a bill I can only hope that sufficient time is given to allow members to read and understand all the pieces of the legislation and for a full cost analysis from the CBO so that we can know the full true price.
IMO I would say pass the bi-partisan bill now as that's understood and graded and it will immediately provide jobs and fix infrastructure. Yes there are pieces of that bi-partisan bill I don't care for but pass the bill and get started on fixing the damn roads and bridges. IMO there is no deadline for the second bill other than partisan politics. The Democrats need to pass that reconciliation bill while they still hold the slim majority in the Senate as there's no guarantee they will hold the Senate after next years election. IMO if the Democrats do succeed in passing the reconciliation bill, they will lose both the House and the Senate.
The big deal is that Joe Biden was called in to at least get one bill delivered. Instead he did what he has always done as president - he sided with the radical left. Pelosi was defeated for the forst time in decades. More importantly, the squad has made statements that have deepened the division between themselves and moderate democrats.
I thought he was called in to give presidential gravitas to finding a way to pass both bills.
Pelosi would have been delighted to get the $1.5 Trillion infrastucture bill voted on. What happened to Biden was that the extreme left got a hold of him and once again he went along with them. Now moderates are as dug in as the squad is. Best of all Sen Kyrsten Sinema told Biden before he went over to talk/persuade House democrats, that she would never consider the second bill if the first one wasn't put to a vote.
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Biden ran on and was ELECTED to get that HUGE bill passed Snuffy. Biden's campaign documents are still online and prove that out.
They started 'talking about' it from the first day of the Congressional session. The moderates made it clear that they believed that they couldn't get bipartisan support for the 'social' infrastructure' parts of the bill. The desire to prove a modicum of bipartisanship is how ONE bill became TWO, ONE through reconciliation, the other through regular order.
Hedging their bets, the Senate Dems wanted to see if they could do both through reconciliation if they needed to. On June 2nd, the Senate Parliamentarian made a ruling that the Senate couldn't do TWO reconciliation bills. So that required the 'hard' infrastructure' bill to go through negotiations with the GOP.
Um, that link clearly states that the House passed a budget RESOLUTION. First paragraph:
As a side note, that Roll Call author sucks.
Oh and you know that there is no such thing as a House 'budget' right Snuffy?
The budget has to be passed by BOTH houses...
In August 2021, the House was STILL working under the 2021 Trump budget Snuffy. In FACT, they were working under that budget until 3 days ago. Federal YTD always starts Oct. 1st. Congress passed a budget extension last Friday, averting a shutdown until Dec. 3rd.
Why YES, yes I do. See above.
Actually, I posted 'Silence ensues' and it still does in that thread bugsy.
I called you out for a strawman fallacy. Silence ensued. A day later you dug in deeper. I called you out again. Silence ensues.
You can always return to that seed and give proof to your claim.
Or you can just keep trolling...
It STILL does Greg...
Lo que sea
What I see is you provide no evidence, you just want to argue. I won't play your game.
As I said...the post was "something like" so there was no reason to correct something I was not incorrect about.
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More likely it's that you can't support the BS you posted and instead of manning up and admitting it, you devolve to your MO and snark.
Carry on...
I quoted YOUR link Snuffy. Are you claiming that your link isn't evidence?
Do you want me to hold your hand and post a link to Biden's campaign website?
Do you REALLY need me to post a link proving that both Houses have to pass a budget?
Or that the federal YTD is always Oct. 1st?
Or that in August 2021, the Federal government was working under the Trump 2021 budget?
That's Schoolhouse Rock level civics Snuffy.
Or how about that Congress passed a budget extension last Friday, averting a shutdown until Dec. 3rd?
Come on Snuffy, adult.
You play your game and make up the rules as you go along.
I'd rather just keep posting FACTS.
Silence ensues...
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Democrats are in control and have a chance to advance at least some of their own agenda. But a handful of them want the moon, so the majority get nothing.
I have to agree. Some people think they should get it all in one fell swoop.
Then when not getting their way will lose everything.
Stupid.
Getting half of what you wanted is better than getting nothing at all.
And here is another piece of the big picture:
"Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was confronted by immigration activists who followed the senator from the classroom where she teaches at Arizona State University to the bathroom while demanding the Arizona Democrat take action on a "pathway to citizenship."
"We knocked on doors for you to get you elected. Just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don't support what you promised us," one of the activists said to Sinema in the video that was recorded with a phone.
The activists first confronted Sinema at her ASU classroom, then followed her down the hall as the senator went into the bathroom and shut the door of a stall. Nevertheless, the activists continued to voice their demands from inside the bathroom, including a demand that she support President Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda and legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for illegal migrants.
"We need the Build Back Better plan right now," one activist said.
"I was brought here to the United States when I was three years old and in 2010 my grandparents both got deported because of S.B. 1070," another activist said. "And I'm here because I definitely believe that we need a pathway to citizenship."
Sinema did not engage in a discussion with the activists in the video footage, instead ignoring the group as she exited the stall and washed her hands.
Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz weighed in on the video, sharing it to social media with the caption "#DeportBlanca."
The video comes on the same day another group of activists confronted Sen. Joe Manchin at his houseboat in Washington, D.C., demanding the West Virginia Democrat drop his opposition to his party's $3.5 trillion spending bill.
Both Sinema and Manchin have expressed opposition to the legislation, dealing a blow to Democrats who cannot afford a single defection in the evenly split Senate."
They use violence, threats & intimidation. Does anyone still think we can co-exist with this ideology?
Vic, go watch some of the plethora of videos about your friends from the Tea Party and their 'invasion' of town hall meetings after Obama was elected. The Tea Party disruption went on for over a year.
Stop whining.
Ah, such untamed violence, several elderly and overweight voters armed with questions 'attacking' Almost Heaven in plastic wannabe kayaks. Imagine what they could have done to the Capitol ... oh the horror!
Don't worry we saw what they were allowed to do for almost a year.
It's amazing to me that America can get ANYTHING worthwhile done. Not only does the party in power have to fight tooth and nail with the other party just to come up with a compromise, but it even has to fight tooth and nail with those in its OWN party to be able to put things before the OTHER party. No wonder the bridges are crumbling and there are more than 700,000 coronavirus deaths. All those migrants should only find out that America's streets are really not paved with gold, especially when everyone is arguing about filling the potholes.
No, we have another country to thank for that.
Maybe for its existence, but no way for those record numbers.
For every bit of it!
Buzz, w/o the virus there would be no pandemic, and no dead.
Maybe one day China will actually release the real number of their citizens that were killed by Covid; and because of the Covid cover up. You might be wishing that it was only 700,000.
That's an ignorant comment Vic, and you know it. Other nations were capable of much lesser per capita numbers than America which is surprising considering that America is a technically advanced nation. The reason was exposed when Woodward played the tape of Trump admitting that he delayed doing what was needed to contain the virus because he didn't want people to panic. It was out of his own mouth, so you cannot deny it. There were other reasons as well besides your vaunted leader.
Joe Biden is that you?!
Done anything about the current Covid 19 surge that started under your watch?
Stopped the world's largest super spreader event going on at our southern border that your are directly responsible for?
Found all of those US civilians that you abandoned in Afghanistan yet? We won't even ask about the green card holders or those Afghans that were stupid enough to aid us that were left behind.
Have you repaid ISIS-K yet for killing 13 US servicemen/women in Kabul? Or are you claiming that killing an US ally aid worker and his entire family (including children) covers it?
Has OPEC increased oil production since you so stupidly ended US energy self reliance? You already begged them once. Better break out the knee pads; doesn't look like they are listening.
How are those violent crime numbers looking Joe; got any plans to get them down in those Democratic bastions of stupidity that defunded the police?
Done any about your high unemployment numbers; along with all those unfilled jobs? Only a Democrat could accomplish that! Maybe it is time to end the never ending unemployment and rent moratorium. (We call know how much you love defying the Supreme Court on the rent moratorium. Taking after your former boss Obama. State repeatedly that you don't have power to do something; but then do it anyways and defy the courts to hold you accountable.)
Keeping track of the high/increasing inflation? The two porkulus bills in Congress that will add 5 trillion in spending will cause that to explode. Considering the current supply shortage exasperated by your labor shortage- I am sure the economy will survive everything just fine./S
That comment is based on FACT. China knew what they had and they let flights go out. PERIOD.
Other nations were capable of much lesser per capita numbers
Other nations deaths were equally preventable - by the CCP!
The reason was exposed when Woodward played the tape of Trump admitting that he delayed doing what was needed to contain the virus because he didn't want people to panic. It was out of his own mouth, so you cannot deny it. There were other reasons as well besides your vaunted leader.
Never mind "Trump!" You laid it on America. You should have NEVER said what you did - A truly ignorant comment!
Viruses happen, and they have been happening as long as we know, and they will continue to happen and it really doesn't matter where they start. You know damn well that what's important is how they are handled when they do start and in the case of this one you cannot possibly admit that America handled it well.
From what I've been reading, no country has necessarily provided the exact numbers, and in many cases it may well have been impossible to do so. However, because I happen to live in a city-state of 32 million people that has reported numbers of less than 600 infections and only 6 deaths, and that has been verified to me by two front line doctors, one of whom is my best friend here and I know he would never have lied to me, and I could see for myself how much the people here adhered to the strict guidelines, I can extrapolate that to the rest of China, and I can see that China reports the number of new cases it has EVERY SINGLE DAY on both the TV and the English internet news, I don't think China's numbers are too far off being accurate. Nobody in my wife's whole extended family or among any of her lifetime friends has been infected, and that would be pretty unusual if the numbers were greater. Don't forget that China has been pretty draconian in its containment measures. How sure are you that America's numbers are accurate?
Yes, I laid it on America. I laid it on the fact that so many Americans consider their individual rights and freedoms to be so much more important that the common good and who gives a shit if they spread it to everyone they come in contact with including their own parents and grandparents and siblings and children because they think that wearing a mask or getting vaccinated curtails their God-given freedom. And I laid it on the fact that the individual States did not follow the guidelines to contain the virus in an equal and concerted manner because every State was entitled to do whatever its governor wished, and so look at Florida as an example of intelligent containment of the virus. Yes, I laid it on America.
And I find it hard to believe that you post a false conspiracy theory about international flights out of China.
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Trump’s Flawed China Travel Conspiracy
Okay Vic, you picked on one single thing I said in comment number 5, now what about the rest of what I said? Are you going to blame China for that too?
We know you hate Trump.
You never should have blamed anyone but China for the pandemic.
I don't hate Trump for everything he did. I commend him for keeping a promise that every other POTUS has broken, for moving the Embassy to Jerusalem. I commend him for treating the Palestinians and Hamas in the way that they deserve. I commend him for the Abraham Accords. And I don't exactly love Biden either.
AND, YET AGAIN YOU TWISTED MY WORDS AND PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. I DID NOT BLAME AMERICA FOR THE PANDEMIC, I ADMITTED IT MAY HAVE STARTED IN CHINA BUT I DID BLAME AMERICA FOR ALLOWING THE VIRUS TO PROLIFERATE TO SUCH NUMBERS.
Here is the mentality you’re dealing with, Vic. Some hated trump because he didn’t act in their best interests, even though they are not American. Truly bizarre and a truly stupid reason to hate another.
Good point!
Another silly thing to do would be to blame America or any other country for "proliferating numbers" when they didn't even have a vaccine or even masks when this deadly NEW disease was unleashed!
CAN'T YOU STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH? IS THAT THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF APPEAR RIGHT? I NEVER SAID AMERICA PROLIFERATED THE NUMBERS, I SAID IT ALLOWED THE NUMBERS TO PROLIFERATE. THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE.
That's it. It's after 10:30 p.m. and I'm going to bed, so you can create more false stories about what I said and I'll not be here to deny them. Why don't you have anything to accuse me of concerning the other things I said in comment number 5?
This Just In:
Manchin open to debt hike through reconciliation, rules out nixing filibuster
http:// hill.cm/6cY3F2x
How nice of Manchin to save America's and Mitch's ass.
I doubt that Schumer is going to waste a last reconciliation shot on raising the debt ceiling. At least a few Senators are standing tall.
What is going on with the debt ceiling is a stupid game of road chicken. You know it and Mitch knows it ... such a couple of patriots. Hope y'all have boxes of purple hearts to hand out to the public.
The Trillions being spent is a democrat idea. Republicans went along with $1.5 Trillion, the rest will have to go on the democrats balance sheet. Future generations may one day ask who it was that saddled them with such high taxes. McConnell is simply forcing democrats to put their signature on it.
The debt ceiling is about interest on past debts, the last guy and his troop added $7.8 trillion.
Ya, Joe Biden said it over and over again yesterday. Future generations will judge all of this.
I'm sure they will one way or another just as a number of things will be judged. When I was older, I had the hubris to list all the ways, but (apologies to Bob D.) I'm younger than that now.
The wind may blow from a different direction this time. Now we actually have a totalitarian establishment that merits rebellion.
I wonder what future generations will think of a society that produced 13.5 abortions for every 1,000 women of reproductive age?
A wide open border?
About 70,000 drug overdose deaths per year?
The loss of manufacturing jobs to globalization?
School indoctrination?
I could go on, but you get the idea
✓republican created problem
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bwah ha ha ha, bring it.
sorry vic, but it ain't 1971 anymore... ...move forward or get the fuck out of the way.
Those are your concerns ... have fun with your rebellion from the "totalitarian" (snicker) establishment; it will be fun to watch. BTW this smell-bellion of yours is not a part of the CAMUS trade deal, so do try to make it an insular family thing ... y'all can plot 'n chat 'aboot' it on Nov. 25th. over a conspiracy stuffed turkey.
NEVER!
You better read it again.
You're not getting by me.
Wow, come back to reality.
Republicans (for the most part are anti abortion)- so how is it their fault for the number of abortions? Democrats meanwhile are abortion on demand at any time during pregnancy. Seems you got it ass backwards again.
Joe Biden and Democrat created problem. Getting nothing but worse as news spreads all over the world. Trump had the border contained. Biden is the one that ended the stay in Mexico policy for illegals until their trial dates. The exploding number of illegal border crossings (the highest it has been in 20 years) is all on Biden. Must be out to set a new yearly total record.
So why haven't Democrats fixed it? They have power over everything now. That is right, they can't any more than the Republicans can. The pandemic has caused a spike in drug related deaths. Too many people with time on their hands because they are not working; but still flush with cash- and they don't have to worry about paying rent. This is a case of "idle hands".
Democrat made problem; and if they get their way with the porkulus reconciliation bill- one that will be exasperated as corporations that can will offshore both jobs and money before the bill takes affect. The ones that are left in the US will either have to lay workers off, cut their pay, increase the costs of their products to offset the new taxes, or go out of business as they will no longer be able to compete with foreign competition whose governments subsidize them.
Democrat fucked up problem. Democrats just can't stop with the social engineering. You would think with all of their failures they would have learned by now; but indoctrination is in their blood.
Will be more than happy to remind you after the midterm drubbing the Democrats will receive.
Sorry, the radical left will never get their way. Canada is to the north (They don't want you); Mexico is to the south (They really don't want you); and Cuba is a nice swim through shark infested waters (They will simply imprison you). If you are really desperate start a go fund me account and try Europe (they will take your money before kicking you out); the Middle East (I am sure the left would love Sharia Law); Russia (Putin would love to repopulate Siberia); China (I hear the internment- sorry reeducation- camps are really nice); North Korea (Because South Korea has more brains that to take US leftists); or India, Pakistan, or Afghanistan (terrorist groups would love the surplus hostages.)
Gee, I thought it was in reference to: "We are who we've been waiting for!".....Barack Obama
Your comments take but a simple one-time read.
You'd be far better off If you spent half as much time trying to contribute to a discussion.
Your seeds are infected with entropy and there are more than enough posts contributing to it.