This just in: I think Biden is old but I don’t think he’s senile. I think Biden is soft-spoken, but I don’t thing he is not determined. Overall, I like his performance. Under his administration, our government has managed to get a lot of things done.
Let’s look at a couple of things…
- Ten million jobs created since 2021
- Actions taken to lower household energy costs by $100 per year.
- Gas prices are dropping sharply
- Passed gun safety regulations
- Unemployment at historic lows.
- Inflation, while high, is low compared to other countries and is dropping
- Strong action against COVID
- Massive infrastructure investment
- Massive aide to Ukraine
- Raised minimum wage for federal workers
There have been a couple of investigations as well. For example…
- The commission looking into January 6th.
- The investigation into Trump hiding and lying about having classified materials.
- Numerous prosecutions of Jan 6 terrorists.
Let’s take a look at the Republican Agenda.
- Calls Social Security and Medicare “entitlements” as if they are the government doing a favor for undeserving people. The GOP wants to lower the payments to people. In other words, once you are too old to earn, you will make less than before the GOP took over.
- Cutting costs that help the IRS to do its job. The CBO is already projecting more than $100 billion in lost tax revenue as the GOP protects the billionaires that contributed to them.
- Eliminate the Ethics structure that monitors the behavior of congress.
The GOP also has a couple of investigations of their own…
- With regards to Hunter Biden’s laptop, why are there boner pictures on it?
- They plan to impeach Joe Biden although they have not yet come up with a reason to do so.
There is some good news here. The GOP is so hopelessly incompetent and divided that they will not accomplish anything.
There is one exception to this.
One of the “give-aways” that McCarthy handed out to gain the speakership was an agreement to oppose all legislation supported by the Biden administration. This is something the GOP is good at. They are great at making sure nothing happens and then blaming someone else for the results – that nothing happened. They are also great at promising things and then not accomplishing them and then – blaming someone else for their failures.
So, let’s see how this plays out.
Right now, I intend to actively look for positive legislation introduced by the GOP.
Time to save the world.
Up, up and away…
Jim
