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First lady Jill Biden implores an ‘often mired in gridlock’ Congress to follow governors’ lead
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| 02/23/2024
| AP
Posted on 02/23/2024 8:44:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden lamented the partisanship that permeates Capitol Hill and politics writ large, telling governors at the White House that she wished more lawmakers would follow their lead.
She spoke on Friday in the White House’s East Room to state chief executives who were in Washington for the winter gathering of the National Governors Association. During her brief remarks, Biden recalled something that Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, had told her when she visited his state last year.
“What you said really stayed with me,” Biden said. “You said pure partisan politics has never contributed to real solutions, and that we can and should prioritize progress over politics, especially on issues where the majority of Americans agree.”
That majority, Biden said, is “an exhausted one.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; congress; governors; gridlock
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Comment #1 Removed by Moderator
To: ChicagoConservative27
so she’s taking over as President now?
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:44:56 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: ChicagoConservative27
As we all know, she should be incarcerated for Elder Abuse, and/or aiding and abetting a pedophile.
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:46:38 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: 1Old Pro
Obama had a pen and what a phone ? LOL
To: 1Old Pro
‘Jill the shill’ needs to STFU!
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:51:54 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
To: 1Old Pro
So she replaced the Pervert in speaking to the Governor’s?????
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:52:21 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(The "pandemic" was never serious enough to close the US southern border.)
To: 1Old Pro
“so she’s taking over as President now?”
Edith Wilson is her favorite First Lady...
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:53:02 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
To: goodnesswins
So she replaced the Pervert in speaking to the Governor’s??Teleprompter must be down
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:54:05 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
“Progress Comrades! Carry onward the glorious revolution to a bold new future”
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:54:32 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: 1Old Pro
Follow which governor’s lead and do what? Defy DHS and the president, call out the national guard and secure the border?
To: 1Old Pro
Congress should stay gridlocked and let the states govern themselves
To: 1Old Pro
we can and should prioritize progress over politics, especially on issues where the majority of Americans agree.Well? We're waitng. The border madam president, the border.
To: 1Old Pro
Follow the governors’ lead? Like Abbott and DeSantis? Sure.
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:56:14 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: 1Old Pro
Gridlock is a feature, not a bug !!!
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:57:27 AM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
To: VanShuyten
She should be more like Lady Bird. You remember her. She was Gentleman Bird’s wifey. She was so quiet and tiny she was finally eaten by the cat.
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posted on
02/23/2024 8:58:08 AM PST
by
ABStrauss
(I miss Rush! )
To: 1Old Pro
With a bicameral government, gridlock is the design, preventing power hungry people from dominating the government. Makes Leftists mad as hell...
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posted on
02/23/2024 9:01:32 AM PST
by
jeffc
(Resident of the free State of Florida)
To: 1Old Pro
“You said pure partisan politics has never contributed to real solutions, and that we can and should prioritize progress over politics, especially on issues where the majority of Americans agree.”
How very....totalitarian of her.
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posted on
02/23/2024 9:02:40 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: 1Old Pro
So says the Baby Sitter turned Wife of the Sniffer Man.
Maybe that’s how she plays Doctor?
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posted on
02/23/2024 9:02:56 AM PST
by
Macoozie
(Roll MAGA, roll!)
To: 1Old Pro
Edith Wilson Biden.....uh oh...DR. Edith Wilson Biden!
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posted on
02/23/2024 9:06:24 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: 1Old Pro
So now partisanship is also the Republicans fault? After 4 years of relentless media attacking Trump daily?
Well, who condemned 75 million Americans for their vote?
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posted on
02/23/2024 9:08:11 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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