I guess anything from pre70s are out.... Dame, broad, toots, cupcake, sweetie They learned their lesson and muzzle him around the Unvaccinated and Kamala. No Fun Xmas for Commander
Karens still love creepy sleepy Joe https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...ew-low-as-independents-sour-on-his-leadership
A short history of White House cats The Biden's new pet will join a distinguished list of presidential felines https://theweek.com/articles/980731/short-history-white-house-cats
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-...rris-11640011955?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos2 Biden Emerges as Progressive Government’s Mr. Bad Example A bit of humility about what Washington could achieve would have served the president well. By Gerard Baker Dec. 20, 2021 1:19 pm ET Say what you will, but Joe Biden’s first year in office has one crowning achievement to its name. It has provided a real-time, data-rich, high-intensity and ultimately devastating case study in the defining conceit of progressive politics: the idea that government is the solution. Mr. Biden laid out this persistent delusion of all true-left believers when he gave a prime-time television address to the nation in March, on the first anniversary of the Covid lockdowns. “Look, we know what we need to do to beat this virus,” he said: “Tell the truth. Follow the scientists and the science. Work together. Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is protecting the American people.” It was an instructive comment. There it was, every item of the progressive creed, every instinct of the liberal Democratic mind, laid bare: Hubris: “We know what to do.” The unchallengeable authority of technocratic bureaucracy: “Follow the scientists.” The superior virtue of collectivism over individual enterprise: “Work together.” Above all, that unerring belief in the capacity of government, which commands our “trust and faith.” When the president made those remarks, 527,726 Covid-19 deaths had been reported in America. We know the number precisely because he told us, citing the card he said he carried with him every day. If he still has that card in his pocket, it will now register a number above 800,000. How can this be? Didn’t he say he knew what to do? Didn’t we just have to follow the science and trust the government? Calling this out isn’t to blame Mr. Biden for those deaths as he blamed President Trump for a smaller number. It’s to make a wider philosophical point. The government’s ability to do much of anything useful, which is attenuated at the best of times, was overstated again and again by the president and his Democratic allies. The most important advance—by a mile—in the fight against Covid-19 has been the development by profit-seeking companies of vaccines and therapies. Yes, those same companies that progressives want to shackle with regulations imposed by their all-knowing government. The virus is the most visible refutation of progressive vanity this year, but by no means the only one. Those liberal geniuses who told us they could manage the economy like a well-honed machine have managed to create the highest inflation in nearly 40 years, eroding real wages and imperiling economic stability. The brilliant ideologues who run our cities have presided over a surge in violent crime that has reduced life for many residents to a real-life dystopia. Those omniscient technocrats who know how to devise and implement a humane and functioning immigration policy have left us with a border in name only and chaos and lawlessness to accompany it. The strategic geniuses who told us “America is back” produced a debacle in Afghanistan whose full ramifications for U.S. security we haven’t even begun to see. And just this past weekend we saw how those masters of Washington’s legislative process couldn’t craft a bill that would bring along their own party to support it. It took the moderate Sen. Joe Manchin to save the progressives from the consequences of their ideological arrogance and governing ineptitude. In short, the party that constantly seeks control over our lives is now governing—or failing to govern—a nation that is spinning wildly out of control. Who could possibly have seen this coming? It’s one thing to have overarching faith in your government’s ability to do things if you’re Franklin D. Roosevelt, Napoleon Bonaparte or Caesar Augustus. But Joe Biden? It’s not too harsh a judgment to say that this is a man who has risen to the top of American public life without a trace of accomplishment. When you’ve been in national politics for almost 50 years, you ought to have achieved something, if only by accident. But this journeyman politician, when he wasn’t getting almost all the big issues wrong, was largely a bystander. He is now a husk of a leader, a dangerously debilitated figure, who oscillates between displays of vacuous incoherence and weird, angry outbursts, like a confused old man at the wrong bus stop. Meanwhile, a heartbeat and a spine-chilling cackle away from the presidency, is another living rebuke to the idea that government is virtuous and wise. Vice President Kamala Harris has demonstrated, evidently to the alarm of much of her own staff, that she is simply another of Mr. Biden’s many mistakes—perhaps the biggest one yet. It is a dismaying state of affairs that we must all pray nightly for the continued health of an inept president to avert the calamity of a worse one. A year ago a bit of wise humility about what he—and government—could achieve would have served the president-elect well. Instead, in less than a year, we have an object lesson in why progressive governance is an oxymoron. Appeared in the December 21, 2021, print edition.
Biden's approval is down. Student debt forgiveness won't help. https://theweek.com/education/1008354/bidens-approval-is-down-student-debt-forgiveness-wont-help
Oops repugs plan for 2024 is to hope Biden doesn't run.. Oh well maybe 2028!! Joe Biden says he WILL run for president in 2024 if he remains in 'good health' and Donald Trump mounting a presidential bid would only 'increase the prospect'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...2024-remains-health-excited-taking-Trump.html
Inside the administration’s failure to avert a covid testing shortfall https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a925a0-629d-11ec-a7e8-3a8455b71fad_story.html excerpt: On his first full day in office, President Biden signed an executive order to boost the availability of coronavirus testing. Five days later, standing in the White House with his health advisory team by his side, Biden called the fight against covid-19 a “wartime effort” and pledged that tests would be widely available. In early September, amid the delta variant surge, Biden reiterated the promise that “every American, no matter their income, can access free and convenient tests.” Now, nearly a full year into Biden’s term, as the virus has mutated its way through the Greek alphabet to the omicron variant, testing is in short supply in many places, leaving frustrated Americans waiting in long lines for tests — if they can get them at all. That is feeding into a wave of concern, despondency and in some places near-frenzy at the likely approach of yet another spike in a pandemic the country has battled for nearly two years. This late-December disarray — crowded testing sites, empty drugstore shelves — is raising fresh questions about how Biden and his team have executed on his pledge to defeat the pandemic. “We’re going from emergency to emergency. We need a strategic plan, and executing on the strategic plan and just making it happen,” said Ezekiel Emanuel, a physician and bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania who was on Biden’s covid advisory team during the transition. “You need a general getting all this done.” White House officials acknowledge that not enough has been done to secure tests and are scrambling to change that amid holiday travel and the onset of the highly contagious new variant. Blaming the shortage on an unforeseen omicron-driven spike in demand, they are ordering an additional half-billion rapid tests and setting up federal testing sites around the country. more
Testing Our Patience Biden’s excuses for the shortage of rapid at-home Covid tests don’t hold up. https://www.city-journal.org/what-is-behind-covid-test-shortages excerpt: President Biden has tried to excuse the testing shortage by claiming that no one could have anticipated the rapid arrival of a new, highly transmissible variant and the need for easily available testing. His explanation strains credulity. The highly transmissible Delta variant has been surging around the country for months. The possibility that new, even more transmissible variants could arise was well known. That is why Biden’s new announcement that the federal government would purchase and distribute 500 million rapid, at-home tests to Americans is too little, too late. more at the link
One thing is for sure. Any Democrat is better than that lying psychopath and his new breed of party members who spread his evil and dangerous hate and lies.
well this is inconvenient The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays” With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays. Frustrated experts explain how confusion, distrust, and a single-minded fixation on vaccinating Americans left testing on the back burner for so long. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...roposal-for-free-rapid-tests-for-the-holidays excerpt: The plan, in effect, was a blueprint for how to avoid what is happening at this very moment—endless lines of desperate Americans clamoring for tests in order to safeguard holiday gatherings, just as COVID-19 is exploding again. Yesterday, President Biden told David Muir of ABC News, “I wish I had thought about ordering” 500 million at-home tests “two months ago.” But the proposal shared at the meeting in October, disclosed here for the first time, included a “Bold Plan for Impact” and a provision for “Every American Household to Receive Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays/New Year.” Three days after the meeting, on October 25, the COVID-19 testing experts—who hailed from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the COVID Collaborative, and several other organizations—received a back channel communication from a White House official. Their big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead. That day, the administration instead announced an initiative to move rapid home tests more swiftly through the FDA’s regulatory approval process. The meeting attendees came away with mixed opinions. “The White House, in baseball terms, was playing small ball,” said Dr. Steven Phillips, a vice president of science and strategy for the Covid Collaborative, a team of high-level experts working to develop consensus recommendations for policy makers. “When it comes to rapid testing, they’re bunting the players along.” But Andrew Sweet, managing director of COVID-19 response and recovery at the Rockefeller Foundation, found the White House “responsive” and believes the meeting laid the groundwork for future announcements. more at the link
More coronavirus tests will be available next month, Fauci says, as U.S. struggles with shortage https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/27/omicron-covid-test-shortage-fauci/ excerpt: “We’ve obviously got to do better,” Fauci said. “I think things will improve greatly as we get into January, but that doesn’t help us today and tomorrow.” more at the link
