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Where Is Joe Biden’s Leadership? He calls coronavirus aid a ‘slush fund’ and echoes Nancy Pelosi.
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 24, 2020 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 03/25/2020 8:11:39 AM PDT by karpov

Amid the coronavirus lockdown, Joe Biden is now running a digital front-porch campaign. In a video streamed from his home in Delaware on Monday, Mr. Biden said he would focus on “what we should do to get this response fixed.”

The remarks that followed weren’t encouraging. He characterized the Senate’s coronavirus relief bill as “a plan that let big corporations off the hook,” and “a $500 billion slush fund for corporations, with almost no conditions.” This rhetoric about slush funds is straight from the antibusiness left.

Does Mr. Biden not understand the problem that companies are facing? They have to figure out how to remain solvent until the health crisis ends, otherwise nobody will be left to turn the lights back on. Under Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill, companies that take federal aid would be put under a permanent $15 minimum wage. Adding such strings to emergency funding will make businesses reluctant to accept the relief, even if they really need it.

Mr. Biden went on to insist that “Social Security checks need to be boosted now” and “student debt should be forgiven for now.” He had more details in a Sunday tweet, saying that any coronavirus relief legislation “should forgive a minimum of $10,000/person of federal student loans, as proposed by Senator Warren and colleagues.”

Why is Mr. Biden working so hard to make himself look like a junior partner of the congressional wing of his party? He ought to be trying to show voters he is capable of leading the country with his own vision.

Admittedly, Mr. Biden is in a tough political spot. President Trump is doing live coronavirus briefings from the White House, standing next to the government’s top emergency managers. Mr. Trump rambles on too much at his briefings, but Americans see him in action.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: biden; botox; california; clowncar; coronavirus; delaware; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; nancypelosi; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan
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1 posted on 03/25/2020 8:11:39 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

OFFS! When will the “hook” him off the stage?


2 posted on 03/25/2020 8:13:26 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: karpov

Pelosi’s fund is not a slush fund its a new way forward, get my rope


3 posted on 03/25/2020 8:13:56 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: karpov

The more significant question is where is Joe Biden’s adult diaper? I think he might need to be changed...


4 posted on 03/25/2020 8:14:06 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: karpov

biden and leadership should never be in the same sentence :)


5 posted on 03/25/2020 8:14:34 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists my curseoint fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: karpov

Jesse Waters made excellent points on the five yesterday about biden. Instead of complaining, pick up the phone and call your buds and secure some masks, or anything.


6 posted on 03/25/2020 8:15:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: karpov

JOE F THEM lying dog-faced, pony soldiers. VIRUS since 1973

TOTALITARIANISM 101...US v THEM...330 MILLION v 535 +++++++GRETA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbeqj-1XOo

Us and Them
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it’s only round and round and round
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside
Down and Out
It can’t be helped but there’s a lot of it about
With, without
And who’ll deny that’s what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it’s a busy day
And I’ve got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died


7 posted on 03/25/2020 8:16:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: karpov

Disregard Demented Joe he’s non compos mentis.


8 posted on 03/25/2020 8:18:22 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: karpov

Looting is not considered ‘leadership’ Joe.


9 posted on 03/25/2020 8:19:31 AM PDT by Track9
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To: All

SOURCE https://thehill.com/hilltv/442351-analyst-biden-china-comments-inexplicable-absolutely-incorrect
5/6/2019 - BY Saagar Enjeti

When he threw his hat into the 2020 ring, Biden came out swinging.

He mocked President Donald Trump’s position on China at a campaign rally.

BIDEN: “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man...they can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact
that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west.”

Biden continued “they can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not, they’re not competition for us.”

Biden’s suck-up to Communist Chinese leaders was outrageous: “Chinese leaders are good folks.”

Yet, we know those same Chinese leaders are committing crimes against humanity. Locking up 1.1, maybe 3 million
Uighurs, in concentration camp-like facilities where a not insubstantial number of them are dying.

THE BLOWBACK MUST HAVE BEEN INTENSIVE-—OBAMA MUSTA BEEN PEEVED AS ALL HELL
Biden walked back his comments at a campaign fundraiser saying: “I don’t suggest China is not a problem. I’m the guy who’s been the toughest on – I’ve spent more time with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping than anybody else, just because the nature of my job,” adding “he’s got problems, he’s got gigantic problems. Doesn’t mean he’s not a threat, doesn’t mean they’re not a threat.”


At that time, Hunter was serving on the board of the billion dollar Chinese private equity company BHR Partners,

Hunter organized a meet-and-greet between his father then-VP Joe Biden and BHR CEO Jonathan Li on Dec. 4, 2013, according to New Yorker magazine.


10 posted on 03/25/2020 8:19:32 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: karpov

It’s obvious that the his “team” are B and C level party hacks, who drew the short straws at a party meeting telling them they were Team Joe! They are practically texting their efforts in...


11 posted on 03/25/2020 8:19:53 AM PDT by databoss
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To: karpov

Steadily pounding nails into the coffin of his own campaign.


12 posted on 03/25/2020 8:19:58 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: karpov

Biden is just parroting the words handed to him by DNC operatives.


13 posted on 03/25/2020 8:20:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
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To: karpov

What do you expect from a doddering old man?


14 posted on 03/25/2020 8:22:46 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: karpov

Slush fund

the untouchable slush fund originated and perhaps still persists in Ukraine


15 posted on 03/25/2020 8:24:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Junk Silver

I’m Joe and I know a thing or two about slush funds.


16 posted on 03/25/2020 8:28:24 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: karpov

What do you expect from a doddering old man?


17 posted on 03/25/2020 8:31:34 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: karpov

Truth be known ....the Democrat Party continues its path to self-inflicted political destruction. Biden is an absolute moron, buffoon, butt wipe, that should he housed in an “old age home”!!!

Pelosi is an outright “Bitch/Witch”, Fanatic Drunk , America Hater, and the most useless, disgusting, human being in God’s world...a true worshiper of SATAN, The Devil himself.

And Schumer is “A Momma’s Boy NYC Weak Jew...that gets down, when Pelosi yells out squat, “Deadbeat Momma’s Boy”....you better be on your knees in three seconds...you weakling!!!

As for all of the rest of the Democrats...including big mouth, butt wipe, Joe Manchin.....they continue, day by day to destroy the Democrat Party, politically!!!

Americans...ya all better hang in there with our great leader, Trumpie...because without Trumpie....there will be No Free America Republic!!! The Democrats are naught but...TRAITORS & TURNCOATS...period!!!


18 posted on 03/25/2020 8:32:32 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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To: karpov

Slow Joe Biden is just about brain dead...

and more and more people are beginning to realize that.


19 posted on 03/25/2020 8:35:31 AM PDT by Conserv
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To: karpov

If any of it goes to airlines that spent billions on stock buybacks, or ESPECIALLY cruise lines that aren’t even flagged in America, I’d consider it partially so.

Help main street, screw wall street.


20 posted on 03/25/2020 8:37:55 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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