The filibuster is in the crosshairs of the Left.
If you don’t want Washington DC to be a state you’re a racist. But is it Constitutional.
And Joe Biden held a press conference and, well, you tell me…
He Should Have Stayed in the Basement
Joe Biden had his first press conference since he became President 64 days ago. It did not go well. He looked old, had no energy and went on for about 30 minutes. A press conference. This shouldn’t even be a story. But it is.
Here are some things we got out of the press conference:
- He downplayed the border crisis and barely even addressed it. He said that surges happen all the time during this time of year. Bad news: They don’t during the winter.
- He said he would be transparent about letting the press looking at the border agencies. But only after it was fixed.
- He threatened North Korea after NK started testing missiles again. He said he would negotiate, which means give them money.
- He is open to getting rid of the filibuster to push through his agenda (more on this later).
- He pushed gun control.
- He pushed voting “rights” including the elimination of voter ID laws.
- He will run for President in 2024, at the age of 82. I wouldn’t walk in front of Kamala Harris anytime soon.
Things that made me kind of feel sorry for him. Kind of.
- He had notes. He knew the questions the reporters were going to ask.
- He had a list of reporters to call on. He did not even hide this.
- The questions were really softball with no follow up questions. He was called a “moral, decent man”. There were no challenging questions.
- Biden did not call on any confrontational reporters like Steve Ducey of Fox News.
- He rambled. His answers were way too long.
- He became confused a few times, seeming to forget the question in the middle of his answer. Reporters actually helped him complete his answers.
- One time, he actually walked away from the podium. I don’t know why. Neither did the camera man.
- He made some really bazaar statements. He said that voter ID laws were like make “Jim Crowe in to Jim Eagle”.
It was an embarrassing press conference. I have to believe this might be his last press conference and I have to believe his time as President is counting down.
There are things he did not talk about:
- Hunter Biden.
- COVID.
- School openings. They don’t know if we are going to open completely by Fall. What?
- The China conference.
- Vlad Putin’s challenge.
- The January 6th Capitol riots.
- Never talked about him falling while boarding Air Force 1.
- Kids in cages at the border.
- The economy, his spending bills.
Tucker Carlson’s commentary:
He’s Playing for Keeps
Joe Biden now says he would support the ending of the filibuster so he could push his massive agenda before the 2022 election.
He knows he is going to have a problem getting legislation pushed through with the filibuster alive. Remember, once the minority party starts to filibuster a piece of legislation, it will take 60 senators to end the filibuster. Without a filibuster, legislation could be passed with a simple majority. The Senate is in a 50-50 deadlock with Kamala Harris being the tie-breaker.
Joe Biden knows it is going to be difficult to pass any of his radical legislation with the filibuster. That legislation includes:
- A $5 trillion spending package. This is on top of the $1.9 trillion he just spent.
- Election reform.
- The new gun control bill.
- Amnesty for illegal aliens.
- Washington DC statehood, which I am pretty sure is unconstitutional.
- His equality and equity programs.
Biden and the Democrats already are sure that they only have a year and a half to get this stuff pushed through. They are probably going to lose the Senate and the House. Though Biden’s approval rating is at 56%, I think this is a red herring.
- His policies and his picks for his cabinet are not popular.
- Gas prices are soaring.
- There’s a huge problem at the border.
- His foreign policy is being mocked by out adversaries.
- We are looking at tremendous inflation before his Presidency is complete.
- His racial policies are beginning to piss people off. He appears to be pandering.
According to Axios:
President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
Why it matters … The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.
Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount to a $5 trillion-plus overhaul of America, and vast changes to voting, immigration and inequality.
- He has full party control of Congress, and a short window to go big.
- He has party activists egging him on.
- He has strong gathering economic winds at his back.
- And he’s popular in polls.
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss told Axios FDR and LBJ may turn out to be the past century’s closest analogues for the Biden era, “in terms of transforming the country in important ways in a short time.”
- Beschloss said the parallels include the New Deal economic relief that Franklin Roosevelt brought in 1933, which saved the country from the Depression and chaos.
- And Biden is on track to leave the country in a different place, as Lyndon Johnson did with his Great Society programs.
People close to Biden tell us he’s feeling bullish on what he can accomplish, and is fully prepared to support the dashing of the Senate’s filibuster rule to allow Democrats to pass voting rights and other trophy legislation for his party.
- He loves the growing narrative that he’s bolder and bigger-thinking than President Obama.
- This temptation to go even bigger, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell insists, will create such a fissure between the parties that he compared it this week to “nuclear winter.”
But we’re told Biden won’t hesitate. Just as he passed the $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package with zero Republican votes and zero regrets, his team sees little chance he’s going to be able to rewire the government in his image if he plays by the rules of bringing in at least 10 Republicans.
- He won’t rub their noses in it, we’re told. That’ll be the Biden touch to rolling the opposition — and getting that much closer to the status of latter-day FDR.
- Biden’s list includes: rural broadband expansion, which would be transformative for those communities … make child tax credit permanent … landmark legislation on climate, guns, voting.
The other question is who are these historians and “activists” that are egging him on? According to the Free Beacon:
Fix Our Senate is steering a coalition of 60 progressive groups to pressure moderate Democrats to eliminate the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to advance legislation. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a nonprofit incubator managed by the D.C.-based consulting firm Arabella Advisors. Arabella’s network of funds is used by the nation’s wealthiest liberal donors to secretly bankroll a host of progressive initiatives. …
The coalition led by Fix Our Senate is trying to drum up support by painting the filibuster as a racist tool. On Thursday, the coalition launched a nationwide, six-figure ad buy that “makes the case that the filibuster, a long favored procedural tool of segregationists, has prevented voting rights and civil rights from passing the U.S. Senate.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has similarly argued that the filibuster has “deep roots in racism.” …
Fix Our Senate does not have to disclose its donors or file tax forms that would shed light on its financial activity, board members, or contractors. The Sixteen Thirty Fund is used by liberal billionaire George Soros and others in the Democracy Alliance, a secretive donor club that financially supports progressive causes. Arabella-managed funds facilitated $715 million of dark money in 2019.
Remember how people in the media used to mock Trump for saying there was a Deep State or Swamp in Washington DC? That he was there to end that corruption? It doesn’t look so far-fetched anymore, does it?
There are four hopes that the filibuster won’t go anywhere:
- Joe Biden decides to be moderate. Level heads.
- Democrats Joe Manchin (W. Va.) and Kirsten Sinima (Az).
- Time. Democrats may not have it.
- Donald Trump.
This is the first time I’ve really been afraid of where this country is going. This is the first time I do not feel like I am part of this country.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-now-supports-ending-filibuster-held-meeting-on-how-big-fast-he-can-jam-through-agenda-report
https://www.axios.com/biden-filibuster-agenda-history-05be3812-6ee0-414b-ae71-b6dfa37d8df4.html
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/anti-filibuster-coalition-leader-is-part-of-progressive-dark-money-group/