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#2790357 6-Oct-2021 07:56

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I miss the days when American politics were civil. Trump screwed all that up (amongst many, many other things) and made it all really toxic, IMO.

American politics were toxic a long time before Trump appeared. Think Nixon.

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#2790380 6-Oct-2021 09:03

I wasn't alive when he was running the show, but did hear/read enough about him to know he wasn't a good person.

I remember Reagan and he was okay, Bush('s) Dad for barely being able to string together a sentence properly. Clinton was really good and I think he could have comfortably won a second term.

Bush Jr I was never really keen on, less so after the wars he started - although in light of Trump he seems like he may have done a couple of things right.

I liked Obama too, he tried to appeal to everyone as much as possible.

Trump was absolutely horrible, succeeded in dividing the country and pitting one group against another for his own personal gain. Frustrating that his legions of followers have bought into his lies so much and are essentially myopically looking at him as their saviour...when he really couldn't care less about them.

Joe is an actual politician, but as I said he's trying to clean up a God-awful mess that was left behind for him.

Note all of this is just IMO, I'm sure some people will disagree :)

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#2790456 6-Oct-2021 11:59

All of them bar Trump (even Nixon) probably wanted to 'do the right thing' when they were elected with regard to their own political leanings, right or left, but with the system as it is in the US the opposition generally has the power to stop them.

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#2808547 6-Nov-2021 17:45

The New York Times - House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold

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WASHINGTON - The House passed a $1 trillion bill on Friday night to rebuild the country’s aging public works system, fund new climate resilience initiatives and expand access to high-speed internet service, giving final approval to a central plank of President Biden’s economic agenda after a daylong drama that pitted moderate Democrats against progressives.

But an even larger social safety net and climate change bill was back on hold, with a half-dozen moderate-to-conservative Democrats withholding their votes until a nonpartisan analysis could tally its price tag.

For Mr. Biden, passage of the infrastructure bill fulfilled a marquee legislative goal that he had promised to deliver since the early days of his presidency: the largest single investment of federal resources into infrastructure projects in more than a decade, including a substantial effort to fortify the nation’s response to the warming of the planet.

The drubbing Democrats took in off-year elections on Tuesday gave new urgency to the president’s demand for legislative action. ...

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The Guardian - Democrats pass Joe Biden’s $1tn infrastructure bill after chaotic day

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#2808596 6-Nov-2021 22:05

Well, that's something. Let's see if it makes his poll numbers improve at all.

Note in my post above - I meant to say Clinton could have comfortably won a third term, if possible - he had already had 2 :)

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#2813638 16-Nov-2021 09:17

From two pro-Democrat newspapers on the same day ...

The New York Times - Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge

15 Nov 2021

On a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party has added enough safe House districts to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone.

A year before the polls open in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans are already poised to flip at least five seats in the closely divided House thanks to redrawn district maps that are more distorted, more disjointed and more gerrymandered than any since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. ...

The flood of gerrymandering, carried out by both parties but predominantly by Republicans, is likely to leave the country ever more divided by further eroding competitive elections and making representatives more beholden to their party’s base. ...

The Washington Post - Biden has underestimated problems facing the country - and Democrats fear that has become a political problem

15 Nov 2021

In June, senior White House officials promised that rising inflation was just “transitory.”

In July, President Biden declared that “the virus is on the run.”

And in August, “the president continues to believe that it is not inevitable that the Taliban take over” Afghanistan.

But just in the past week, inflation hit a 31-year high [and] coronavirus cases are ticking up again ... head winds that come as the Democratic Party reels from a set of unexpected losses in elections around the country.

In these and other cases, a growing number of Democrats worry that the White House has repeatedly underestimated the scale of the challenges facing the country ...

They acknowledge the problems presented by the unpredictable nature of the pandemic and an uneven economic recovery, but fear that the administration’s tendency to downplay the issues has only made things worse. ...

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The New York Times - Democrats Shouldn’t Panic. They Should Go Into Shock.

17 Nov 2021

The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid, mayhem in Afghanistan and the uproar over “critical race theory” - all of these developments, individually and collectively, have taken their toll on President Biden and Democratic candidates, so much so that Democrats are now the underdogs going into 2022 and possibly 2024.

Gary Langer, director of polling at ABC News, put it this way in an essay published on the network’s website:

As things stand, if the midterm elections were today, 51 percent of registered voters say they’d support the Republican candidate in their congressional district, 41 percent say the Democrat. That’s the biggest lead for Republicans in the 110 ABC/Post polls that have asked this question since November 1981. ...

Robert Y. Shapiro, a political scientist at Columbia, holds similar views, but suggests that the flood tide of political trouble may be beyond Democratic control:

Biden and the Democrats have had almost all bad news: the pandemic is still going; the economy has not picked up in terms of perceptions of the expected increases in employment and economic growth not on fire; perceptions of what happened in Afghanistan; what has happened on the southern border; high crime rates, all amplified in news reports. ... The bad news is overwhelming. ...

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#2849548 12-Jan-2022 22:01

Biden makes a speech plainly stating he will work to change the Senate rules in any way necessary to prevent a filibuster of proposed national voting rights legislation:

USA TodayThe goal of the former president and his allies is to disenfranchise anyone who votes against them," Biden said. "That is the kind of power you see in a totalitarian state – not in a democracy."

Harris: "Over the past few years we have seen so many anti-voter laws that there is a danger of becoming accustomed to these laws," she said. "A danger of adjusting to these laws as though they are normal."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to force a vote on changing the filibuster by Jan 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, should Republicans continue to oppose the bills.

Nineteen states have recently increased voting restrictions.

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#2851100 15-Jan-2022 11:35

Barrack Obama adds his voice in support of American voting rights legislation:

USA Today:The filibuster has no basis in the Constitution. Historically, the parliamentary tactic was used sparingly – most notably by Southern senators to block civil rights legislation and prop up Jim Crow. In recent years, the filibuster became a routine way for the Senate minority to to block important progress on issues supported by the majority of voters. But we can’t allow it to be used to block efforts to protect our democracy. That’s why I fully support President Joe Biden’s call to modify Senate rules as necessary to make sure pending voting rights legislation gets called for a vote. And every American who cares about the survival of our most cherished institutions should support the president’s call as well.

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#2853821 19-Jan-2022 22:27

Gary Chambers Jr. Serious contender for Louisiana Senate seat:

Nola.com: “When you look at our state and where we are – we rank 50th in the nation overall, 46th in health care, 47th in infrastructure and the economy, 48th in education, 49th in environment, 50th in crime – we can do better,” Chambers said in an interview. Chambers becomes the second Democrat seeking to derail the re-election bid of Kennedy, a Republican who has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

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#2853835 19-Jan-2022 22:57

gzt: Gary Chambers Jr. Serious contender for Louisiana Senate seat: “When you look at our state and where we are – we rank 50th in the nation overall,"

This is where the Democrats and Republicans differ: A Democrat will try to make Louisiana better, a Republican will try to get Puerto Rico declared a state so Louisiana is no longer the worst one.

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#2853994 20-Jan-2022 12:05

Kinda/sorta related to Biden:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/could-hillary-clinton-make-a-comeback-in-the-2024-presidential-election-her-allies-think-so/3JDL7UBFQIG63KUYH3E7QTF4LM/

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#2854050 20-Jan-2022 12:30

quickymart:

Kinda/sorta related to Biden:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/could-hillary-clinton-make-a-comeback-in-the-2024-presidential-election-her-allies-think-so/3JDL7UBFQIG63KUYH3E7QTF4LM/

Is there really no-one new out there? Do you really have to be as old as Mick Jagger to run the country?

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#2854052 20-Jan-2022 12:35

Rikkitic:
Is there really no-one new out there? Do you really have to be as old as Mick Jagger to run the country?

When political appointments are handed out on the basis of seniority, yes. See the Soviet Union for how this works.

And how it ends.

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#2854059 20-Jan-2022 12:45

The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix: Why people are saying Biden had a bad first year

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Today, President Biden has been in office exactly 365 days.

Objectively, things aren’t going well for him. ...

He’s struggling to quell the coronavirus, amid some health experts’ criticisms that his administration should have prepared better to protect Americans from a highly infectious variant such as omicron and with polls showing Americans think the government’s guidance has been confusing.

He’s struggling to address inflation, which is as bad as it’s been in 40 years and is Americans’ top concern. Yet there’s not a lot he (or any president) can do about it.

Today, Democrats will try - and fail - to break through a Republican filibuster to pass legislation on voting rights, and they will have to acknowledge they have no path forward to fulfill this key Biden campaign promise.

They don’t have a path forward for Biden’s big government spending plan, Build Back Better.

And a solid majority of Americans disapprove of the job he’s doing so far ...

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#2854084 20-Jan-2022 13:26

Query, what were Trump's numbers like at this point in his presidency?
Mind you, he didn't have to deal with something like coronavirus back in 2018, he left that job for his successor.

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