Republicans have introduced a new amendment banning any federal funds from gender affirming care in several must-pass bills, with very little public pushback thus far.
No argument from me regarding how Obama handled Republicans, but that’s not what we’ve seen happen since Biden took office. He’s done a great job of getting much of his agenda passed by peeling off what few “moderate” Republicans are left, and he hasn’t caved to Republican demands at all without extracting serious concessions on his end too. The reality is Republicans control the House right now, so they have to work together with Democrats to some extent, whether or not we emotionally would prefer Biden just give them the finger
Has he really passed much of his agenda though? Or, at least, what he said his agenda was in order to be elected.
He has passed a bunch of legislative packages that have nice sounding names and were talked about by corporate media as historic, but when you take off the lid on most of them it’s mainly pork for corporations and anything of substance was cut down significantly from what it needed to be to be effective (climate spending in particular).
The prime example to me of how Biden operates was made apparent in the debt ceiling negotiations; all the GOP had to do was threaten absurd economic suicide that they were never actually going to follow through on and they got him to make concessions while he got the American people literally nothing in return.
I think this is because Biden is secretly pro-austerity and self-sabotages. He’s not fit for this crucial time in our history where bold action and change is needed.
Best illustrated here: https://www.theonion.com/in-bipartisan-spirit-obama-makes-deal-to-get-kicked-in-1819595205
No argument from me regarding how Obama handled Republicans, but that’s not what we’ve seen happen since Biden took office. He’s done a great job of getting much of his agenda passed by peeling off what few “moderate” Republicans are left, and he hasn’t caved to Republican demands at all without extracting serious concessions on his end too. The reality is Republicans control the House right now, so they have to work together with Democrats to some extent, whether or not we emotionally would prefer Biden just give them the finger
Has he really passed much of his agenda though? Or, at least, what he said his agenda was in order to be elected.
He has passed a bunch of legislative packages that have nice sounding names and were talked about by corporate media as historic, but when you take off the lid on most of them it’s mainly pork for corporations and anything of substance was cut down significantly from what it needed to be to be effective (climate spending in particular).
The prime example to me of how Biden operates was made apparent in the debt ceiling negotiations; all the GOP had to do was threaten absurd economic suicide that they were never actually going to follow through on and they got him to make concessions while he got the American people literally nothing in return.
I think this is because Biden is secretly pro-austerity and self-sabotages. He’s not fit for this crucial time in our history where bold action and change is needed.