Bypassing Biden: Democrats Think of What Could Have Been

Politico ^ | July 6, 2023 | Jonathon Martin

[Twotone]

At the very moment last month that images of President Joe Biden falling on stage at the Air Force Academy’s commencement rocketed around the internet, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was reminding her state’s business executives and political leaders about what could have been.

Speaking at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual conference on this resort island, Whitmer won repeated applause from the centrist crowd by reciting the fruits of her party’s so-called trifecta in Lansing. With Democrats in control of the governor’s office and both chambers of the state Legislature following last year’s election, Whitmer noted, they had pushed through tax cuts, gun control measures and protections for abortion and gay rights.

And then, taking aim at Republican governors, she contrasted her record on the latter two issues with other, redder states, adding that she would also not “wage war with Mickey Mouse.”

Putting Michigan “on the right side of history,” Whitmer assured the slacks-and-sportcoat crowd, “is going to be good for business.”

This was before jokes about Mackinac-induced hangovers, “Yoopers and trolls” — those who live on both of Michigan’s peninsulas, longings for her adult daughters to remain in the state and a softball q-and-a with the Detroit Chamber chief during which Whitmer mused about luring Disney to Michigan. There was also a discussion of what Michigan State basketball legend Tom Izzo had termed the “KMA phase” of one’s career.

[grobdriver]

they had pushed through tax cuts, gun control measures and protections for abortion and gay rights.

I believe all of it except the tax cuts.

[TornadoAlley3]

She will be chosen as Biden’s replacement.

[Dave911]

Apparently the majority of Michigan voters are idiots.

[No name given]

Better yet, all lefties are.

[clearcarbon]

"With Democrats in control of the governor’s office and both chambers of the state Legislature following last year’s election, Whitmer noted, they had pushed through tax cuts, gun control measures and protections for abortion and gay rights."

[Luke21]

“Centrist crowd?” I so detest Politico and its Bolshevik cousin, The Hill.

[LegendHasIt]

.."Whitmer won repeated applause from the centrist crowd ..."

To a Maoist, a Marxist crowd seems to be Centrist.

[Western Phil]

Didn’t read the article, but her conclusion should have been that had Biden continued with all the policies put in place by Trump, the media would laud him as the greatest president ever.