• Space/Science
  • GeekSpeak
  • Mysteries of
    the Multiverse
  • Science Fiction
  • The Comestible Zone
  • Off-Topic
  • Community
  • Flame
  • CurrentEvents

Recent posts

This is all you need to know about the "Culture Wars". ER March 26, 2023 4:21 pm (Flame)

Elric of Melnibone, with an accent on the last 'e'. ER March 24, 2023 6:20 pm (Science Fiction)

Ongietan* podrock March 23, 2023 9:40 pm (CurrentEvents)

War Comix ER March 22, 2023 4:31 pm (Off-Topic)

My first "chat" with the new Bing AI search engine. RobVG March 20, 2023 1:04 pm (Space/Science)

Phenomenal video and animation ER March 18, 2023 1:38 pm (Off-Topic)

Sargassum ER March 15, 2023 5:20 pm (Space/Science)

Achtung Kapital! ER March 14, 2023 5:54 pm (CurrentEvents)

Top Gun - Maverick podrock March 8, 2023 2:21 pm (Off-Topic)

London, 1966, through Antonioni's eyes... ER March 5, 2023 8:20 pm (CurrentEvents)

Home » CurrentEvents

Biden's Classified documents scandal January 19, 2023 11:26 am BuckGalaxy

With a couple of exceptions, Biden has been a damn good president thus far in his term. The American Rescue Plan saved millions of jobs and businesses, shored up state budgets, and funded testing, treatment, and vaccines to fight the pandemic. The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest climate bill in world history and also allows Medicare to finally negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. The bipartisan Infrastructure bill that the last four presidents had failed to pass fixes the nations roads, bridges, ports, grid and expands high speed internet to rural America. Other bipartisan bills include the gun-safety bill that expands background checks, makes it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking, and provides federal funding for so-called red-flag laws. The CHIPS Act boosts domestic production of semiconductors. The long-stalled postal-reform bill. The Violence Against Women Act. Military aid for Ukraine. Executive actions on student-loan forgiveness and pardons for marijuana possession. His only real screw up was Afghanistan, and that was in the disorderly pullout. The policy itself has been good in ending America’s longest war. Terrorism hasn’t spiked as a result and our hands have been freed to more directly help Ukraine.

That’s why I am so deeply disappointed about this documents issue. It was sloppy. It will likely result in Trump getting off the hook despite his far more egregious classified documents scandal. There is a real concern about the timing given the first documents where found six days before the midterms but publicly announced much later. And of course it has a similarity to Hillary’s emails with classified materials, which dogged her entire campaign in 2016. This really could be Biden’s undoing, especially if Trump isn’t the 2024 GOP nominee. That frees the GOP to batter Biden relentlessly over this.

Maybe I’m jumping the gun, but as much as I like Biden it might be time for another Democrat to step up and take the helm. If so I favor Gavin Newsome.

  • Good Points. by ER 2023-01-19 11:52:01
    • You're reading my mind on Sherrod Brown by BuckGalaxy 2023-01-19 14:13:33
      • Bernie may be older in years, but he's still as sharp as a tack.. by ER 2023-01-19 17:43:25
        • Curmudgeon by BuckGalaxy 2023-01-20 14:26:17
          • I don't know why, but I LIKE grumpy old men. by ER 2023-01-20 16:53:56

    Search

    The Control Panel

    • Log in
    • Register