Posted on 10/01/2020 6:50:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
During Tuesday night’s debate, Biden insisted he was in charge of the Democratic Party, but his evasions tell a different story.
In an exchange about health care during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden declared, “I am the Democratic Party!” He was responding to President Trump’s claim that Democrats want “socialist medicine,” a Trumpian but mostly accurate characterization of where most Democrats are on health care. Biden vehemently denied it, saying he’s not for getting rid of private health insurance.
But beyond the question of health care, Biden’s claim of ownership over the Democratic Party stood out Tuesday night if only because the rest of his performance demonstrated the extent to which it’s not true. In fact, Biden is so afraid of his own party — and so bullied by its dominant left wing — he can’t truthfully answer basic questions about where he stands on major policy issues, not even when asked point-blank on a national stage.
That’s why he refused to answer a simple question about whether he supports packing the Supreme Court and ending the Senate filibuster — a question he has been dodging lately. Instead, Biden awkwardly pivoted to a canned talking point about the importance of voting. When pressed by Trump to answer, Biden shot back bluntly, “I’m not going to answer the question… Will you shut up?”
"I'm not going to answer the question… Will you shut up?" Biden said when asked about court packing pic.twitter.com/i4RHShQAIP
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) September 30, 2020
As Biden and everyone else knows, the left wing of the Democratic Party is eager to kill the filibuster and pack the court if their party wins control of the White House and the Senate. Some, like House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, have openly endorsed a court-packing scheme. Other leading Democrats, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have not ruled out packing the court, saying that “nothing is off the table.”
That’s the line Biden’s own running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, took as early as last March when she was running against Biden for the nomination. Harris has since adopted Biden’s rule of refusing to answer the question, resorting to the same dodge about the importance of voting when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked her about court-packing immediately following Tuesday’s debate.
Why won’t they answer? Because they know that while the left wing of their party, led by the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, very much wants to pack the court, they also know that most Americans are against it. One recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found less than a third of Americans support adding more justices, while 54 percent oppose the idea. Among independents, 6 out of 10 are against court-packing, while Democrats are split on the issue.
Biden has in the past made his opposition to court-packing clear. As recently as last July, he warned that Democrats would “live to rue that day” if they packed the court. That Biden won’t even speak to the issue now, as his party’s presidential nominee, is telling. What it tells is that Biden is trying to please left-wing Democrats who are actually in control of the party.
One other issues, like expressing support for law and order and condemning Antifa, Biden was reluctant to say anything that would anger left-wing Democrats — to the point that, when pressed to condemn Antifa, he replied, absurdly, that “Antifa’s an idea, not an organization,” and argued the real problem with civic unrest comes from white supremacist militias.
On law and order, Biden uttered left-wing shibboleths about systemic racism in law enforcement, saying, “There’s systemic injustice in this country, in education and work and in law enforcement and the way in which it’s enforced,” showing deference to organizations like Black Lives Matter. That he later contradicted himself, saying most police officers are “good, decent, honorable men and women” and the problem is that “there are some bad apples,” came as an afterthought, an echo of what Biden used to think but has set aside for BLM pieties.
On the Green New Deal, Biden insisted he doesn’t support it and it’s not his plan even though his own campaign website cites the Green New Deal as a “crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.” Indeed, Biden’s climate plan was hammered out in consultation with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign and amounts to a watered-down version of the Green New Deal.
And so it went throughout the debate. But Tuesday’s debate was just the latest example of Biden’s long march to the left. He can claim all he wants that he “is” the Democratic Party, but his constantly leftward-shifting positions, on everything from abortion to criminal justice, suggest that the Democratic Party’s most ardent leftists are leading Biden, not the other way around.
Sadly, it is doubtful that a majority of American voters really understand the destructive nature of the democrats grasp for total power by packing the Supreme Court, ending the filibuster and admitting WashingtonD.C. and Puerto Rico as states. It will ultimately destroy the national integrity and unity of the Unitied States. Those who really understand know that this is the goal of the globalist. A vibrant, strong, unified America is the nightmare of the globalist dream.
However for whatever its worth, the voters must be made aware of the Democrat’s vile plans and Biden’s complicity and willingness to implement them.
Correct. Joe is just a token loser. He is a placeholder this year, designed to be someone the Democrats could use to run against the great President Trump.
The Democrats concede this year, but maybe in 2024 they will find somebody halfway electable. Maybe.
and saying "shut up". He looked awful, I think he lost the Independents with that outburst. The played it multiple times last night and I am horrified how bad he acted.
The far Left is the DNC. There is nothing of the old extreme Left that is extreme to anyone in the DNC anymore and since they stay in power over the party the natural assumptions to make of Democrats supporting them are:
1) they are likewise like those they vote for; or,
2) they are fooled, deceived by those they are voting for.
There is no middle ground. There are very few, if any, Zell Millers remaining and those that might have held out in State and local politics till now are still being shown the door when ever they get the party’s attention ... as indeed happened recently to that fellow who thought he could dissent with the DNC over abortion.
The DNC is a haunt of scum and villainy. Their voters either know what is what and support it or they are deluded.
Or their plan is to help things descend into chaos after the election. They serve the Revolution, the ChiComs among others (going back to the Soviets and Comintern) have paid them their 30 pieces of silver and expect a return on their investment.
Bringing America down is in the works.
“I’m not going to answer the question… Will you shut up?”
“Antifa’s an idea, not an organization,”
Joe Biden is just an old poster slapped on a Circus Wagon, he isn’t inside, and he isn’t driving.
We need a president, a leader, not a retread and a fake. Biden is the most inauthentic candidate since Hillary.
We have a leader, EU (thinks so, The ‘Trump Doctrine’ earns President third Nobel Peace Prize nomination) we have a strong leader in President Trump....ex-president Obama and his mafia want Communism a la China and are stopping at nothing to get it. America is stronger than that traitorous group...fake Biden, fake newsman Wallace, are little boys sticking out their tongues at this great country, America...they don't deserve to live here.
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