Donald Trump abused his powers in a lot of "there's no recourse except impeaching him" ways and Biden mostly refused to do any of that and the reward he's received is that the Centrist Norms-Guarders who actually pretend to care about that stuff have now all called on him to step down.
No one actually cares about this stuff! You will not be rewarded for following DOJ protocol. You will be rewarded if you use as much power as you can get away with to make life better for your constituents, the same way Republicans use as much power as they can get away with to fuck us!
Anti-Bernie Dems in 2016 and 2020 would always go like "oh exactly HOW will you do all this stuff" and to me that was never the point - I believed Bernie would keep pushing on every lever he could reach trying to get us to those goals and I didn't believe Clinton or Biden would.
And it turns out that was absolutely correct for Biden! He's done a lot given his restrictions but when push comes to shove, he backs down a lot! Maybe that's good for Restoring Norms or whatever but it turns out no one gives a shit! I don't give a shit and the Norms Enforcers definitely don't!
lol yeah I was trying to figure out a way to get Lincoln in that tweet as well but I couldn't think of any one line if his equivalent to that FDR quote
He went on television to basically say he’s been handed monarchical power that he won’t use but we all know his opponent will, and they’re still doing horse race bullshit. Wild.
So when a judge flatly says, "you can't do that" Biden should direct the agency to do it anyway?
Seems like the FedSoc is giving POTUS unlimited power to destroy and no power to build.
I voted for him twice but the guy was opposed to ending the filibuster until well into the 2020 race. He is not a procedural radical and wouldn't even push the must obvious levers let alone every one available.
The antithesis of Biden governing, the reason we are in the mess we are in now. After the Senate silence, Obama should have invoked the "silence gives consent" legal maxim and sent Marshals to accompany Garland to take his seat on SCOTUS. So he's part of this too. Always a knife to a gunfight.
I’m a Warren voter lefty and I think he should step down. I wonder if the true divide is between people who have been caregivers for elders with mild to moderate cognitive decline and those who haven’t.
The issue as is often the case is Democratic policy requires affirmative support of the law whereas Republicans can just wreck shit to win.
For instance, if somebody gets illegally deported that's a fait accompli, if someone has student loans improperly waived those can reappear.
