Chip manufacturing, massive infrastructure investment, 500 million Covid vaccinations, small business and individual pandemic relief, historic gun safety law, biggest climate change investment ever, college debt relief, decriminalizing marijuana, Medicare can finally negotiate drug prices, capping insulin co-pays, raising minimum corporation tax to 15%, federal budget deficit cut in half, more jobs than under any administration ever, gas prices down, empowering vets to sue for getting poisoned, protecting gay marriage, first black woman Supreme Court Justice, and first woman Vice President, most diverse judicial nominees in history, first female Treasury Secretary, first openly gay Cabinet member, first Native American Cabinet member, first woman Secret Service Director, getting out of Afghanistan, defending Taiwan, arming Australia against China, near unprecedented midterm voting successes for his party, dramatically strengthening and expanding NATO, bringing Putin to his knees and saving Ukraine.
Not bad for a president his hate-filled critics call “cognitively challenged”.
yeah, yeah, yeah, but what has he done for us lately
just ask ted what he thinks of joe and enjoy the twitter blowback. here’s a sample of the responses
Ted Cruz Called Out For Hypocrisy After Mocking Joe Biden’s Tropical Vacation | HuffPost Latest News
another day another book, but thankfully this one is not about you-know-who
per simon & schuster: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, news-making look at how President Joe Biden and his seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda—based on the author’s extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad.
poor joe, even his doggy gets a bad rap and from the SS detail of all people according to the new book
Biden doesn’t trust some Secret Service, doesn’t believe ‘details’ of dog biting incident: report | The Hill
Olbermann on Santos: Democrats: get out of the way and buy more popcorn. This is McCarthy’s Tar Baby. (Olbermann didnt use Tar Baby, that is my contribution. Thank you Uncle Remus)
WH lawyer: a polite respectful FU and suck on that, jim & james
White House to Jim Jordan, James Comer: Sorry, but you have to restart your oversight requests – POLITICO
Bears repeating:
“Not bad for a president his hate-filled critics call “cognitively challenged”.”
Not bad at all. The other side of the coin is it shows Congress being more effective than it got credit for in the SineManchin era.
As I mentioned about Santos’ biggest concern, NBC is reporting that NY prosecutors are investigating Santos’ finances. How far behind can the FBI be? Of course he has nothing to fear from the GQP House leadership. He won, he’s repugnican; what’s the problem?
Great sentence structure of the week from Olbermann’s podcast:
Be as righteously indignant as you want, Democrats. But do NOT attempt to block the seating of George “If That Is Your Real Name” Santos. No matter which way Kevin McCarthy turns, Santos will be his undoing, so just shut up and invest in popcorn. As a Republican District Attorney opens a probe of his campaign and his cornucopia of lies…
-continues
I’m 72. Old. But I still draw comfort when our President is older and wiser than me. Not to say that I wouldn’t go for someone younger and wiser — say, Big Gretch or (former) Mayor Pete
what BB has been alluding to
from crooks&liars:
and this past november from Republican George Devolder-Santos Got Cash From Andrew Intrater Cousin of Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg (thedailybeast.com)
How it started: Jerkoff Sr on the Golden Escalator
How it’s going: Santos being hammered by Tulsi Gabbard, McCarthy crapping his pants on a daily basis.
Sturgeone
Sometimes it pays to be old. My mother told me that Harris was only retelling the African folk tales he overheard. Now that info is in Wikipedia.
DeSantis is orange-ish
also noted at George Santos bragged he had been to Moscow ‘many times in my career’ – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
I’m anxiously awaiting that “pays to be old” part. It’s running late.
When I was a squid, before air conditioned cars or interstates, on our many wanderings between Birmingham and Charleston we would eagerly anticipate going thru the home of Uncle Remus and past the house of Joel Chandler Harris
seems like it’s about time for an enterprising journalist to follow the money that all GOPer congresscritters have received from uncle putie. you know, just to be fair and balanced to show santos might not be the only one with tainted campaign funds.
Quotable Quotes:
I’ve always been about 2 weeks ahead of my time.
–Roger Miller
Biden is eighty years old, and he is looking it. My worry is can he survive the double burden of a rough campaign and the most difficult job there is. Nothing like a dead candidate for your October Suprise.
Jack
I agree with Jack. I’m very happy with what Biden has been able to accomplish… just hope that if he does decide to run for re-election that he has the stamina to make it through that and 4 more years.
yeah… this Santos story is JUICY! Think I’ll have some lemonade to go with my popcorn…
Jack – the nightmare is if President Biden is reelected and does not make it to swearing in. I hope Craig could provide the legal secession, and it not include a republican.
I hope there isn’t a big fight over Biden What about vp
Book of the Month
THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE, by Jeff Greenfield (A Cautionary Tale)
The People’s Choice(occasionally titled The People’s Choice: A Cautionary Tale)[1]is a 1995 novel written by Jeff Greenfield. When the United States’ President-elect MacArthur Foyle dies after the general election, but before the Electoral College has a chance to vote him into office, the media and the election process are swung into chaos.
I won that book on an Imus call-in.
So, Bob Morris, it sounds like the wiser part is the important part. Seems wise to me.
Craig needs to verify but wouldn’t Harris still be VP since whomever was on the winning ticket if not Harris wouldn’t have been sworn in either?
The question would be for how long since the VP serves out the remainder of the President’s term. That could tee up the new VP. Very interesting conundrum.
George Santos
Where he lives Where he worked Where he went to school Where he got his His charity His business Being Jewish His criminal history in Brazil His Russian-oligarch donations His divorce …so far.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_States#President-elect_succession
Santos claimed his mother died in 9/11. She actually died 2016
Thank you, Bink,
So, the VP-Elect would become Acting President, but has “until there is a qualified President” ever been clarified? Would that mean an immediate new election, and election in four years, or some sort of reversion back to the Senatorial form of election? Questions, we have questions.
Best funny of the day (so far): Barrons reports that sfb lite got a margin call on his borrowed stock. That has to burn. A margin call is something that the owner of the stock you borrowed want you to pay back because the value has dropped. Margin calls are not nice, it means you, the borrower, are hurting because the value is crashing. (behind paywall so I am just providing a skim)
I truly believe he is the best person to guide us through these times; age can be beneficial.
I love POTUS Joe.
Since Santos seems to be quite adept at lying, who is to say he wouldn’t vote with Dems just for kicks and giggles?
If the FBI gets too close, will Santos “fall” out of a hotel window? Yeah, I smell Russians.
George Santos is performance art.
bId – smell russians. Yeah. For all we know right now is that a male (appearing) creature won a seat in the next Congress. It is looking like the charade is nearly over. What happens to the main character? Not going near windows or driniking tea in outdoor cafe, as starters. What started decades ago by KGB has evolved to putting multiple candidates to office and winning. Look at those literally saluting russia and not these United States.
Media shocked that Peoples Republic of China is estimated to have one millionish people die of COVID. A reminder – The United States had over one million people die of COVID – so far.
I did see many more masks on the plane this week…and yay, there was actually a plane and a flight crew and everything.
For Christmas, I received quite the eye roll from an anti-vaxxer relative telling me wine, soda, etc., tastes like metal since having covid (and who seems, to me, to be also suffering from short-term memory loss), who then asked if I had been boosted. Yep. Five shots. Eye roll.
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