opinion piece: Build Back Better’s freeze puts the bow on Biden’s very bad year https://nypost.com/2021/12/15/build-back-betters-freeze-puts-the-bow-on-bidens-very-bad-year/
Opinion piece….NYPOST… do I need to say more?? It’s been a tough year for everyone. Biden is doing fine but we all wish there was more he could do to make things better and finally kick Covid to the curb, but he isn’t a God. He’s a president.
bad year?? WTF? the stock market has been great!!! surely you didn't miss out on those gains? right? lol thank u Biden....errr, i mean JPowell
@Deckard another in an endless stream of opinion pieces, I think you'll like this one When a President Punts on the Midterms To Win Re-Election https://www.allsides.com/blog/when-president-punts-midterms-win-re-election
probably deserves its own thread http://theglitteringeye.com/why-isnt-joe-biden-more-popular/ Why Isn’t Joe Biden More Popular? Dave Schuler December 17, 2021 For his part in his latest Washington Post column Fareed Zakaria muses over why President Joe Biden isn’t more popular: I find President Biden’s unpopularity puzzling. He is rounding out his first year in the White House with the lowest end of first-year approval ratings of any elected president in modern times with the exception of Donald Trump. Why? Biden is a genial, likable person. Many of the policies he has pursued have been popular, some even with Republican support. The country is doing reasonably well economically, as measures such as declining unemployment, the stock market and interest rates demonstrate. So why did the latest CNN average of the polls have him at 45 percent? which I suspect illustrates Mr. Zakaria’s and, perhaps, the WaPo’s detachment from the lives and expectations of ordinary people more than anything else. I’ll try to explain it to him. First, Joe Biden has never been particularly popular. His attempts at running for president prior to 2020 were complete flops. Such popularity as he had in 2020 was largely predicated on his not being Donald Trump. Mission accomplished. He’s not Donald Trump. My impression of Mr. Biden, far from his being “a genial, likable person”, is that he’s an insincere phony. He’d like people to believe that he’s a regular guy but everything I’ve heard from people who’ve had direct dealings with him is that he’s arrogant and imperious. Next, there was no sanitary, pure, right way of exiting Afghanistan which is precisely why Presidents Obama and Trump didn’t do it. And leaving Afghanistan bucked the Washington establishment view which resulted in the sad, messy withdrawal getting considerable adverse press coverage. An ancestor of mine gave what is (at least in Switzerland) a famous bit of advice: don’t set the fence too far. The funny thing about running on a platform of being the un-Trump, bringing peace, justice, and mercy to our southern border, restoring relationships with our allies, ending COVID-19, and a general return to normalcy and you fall short of those things while inflation runs hotter than it has in 40 years, people don’t like it. It may not help that it feels as though we’re on the brink of war with Russia and in space. This post may sound more critical of President Biden than is actually my intent. I actually sympathize with him. I just think that people should have realized what they were going to get when they voted for Biden.
Biden approval rating at historic low in NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-historic-low-in-npr-pbs-newshour-marist-poll
He would if he didnt let the radical left dictate his policy. Them broads AOC and Ms. Omar are mad today on Morning joe.
I really don't think it is that simple, he has a very small majority and is trying to thread the needle...... he ultimately just doesn't have much power. He isn't LBJ who could threaten and force compliance.... I don't think he is terrible, but I also don't think that he has the cult of personality to get what needs to be done in chaos like the current political climate. In a more secure/prosperous era he would likely be quite popular..... timing is everything, but he knew that when he ran for President, this isn't a good time to be President.
I honestly didnt think the term broad was offensive but I will do some research and adjust my use accordingly. My apologies if that rubbed you the wrong way.
