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Biden focuses on domestic agenda, even as hot spots flare up elsewhere
The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 21, 2021 | BY ELI STOKOLS, NOAH BIERMAN

Posted on 08/21/2021 9:53:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Every morning this week at 8:45, a newly established “war room” has convened at the White House, with about 20 staffers logging onto a Zoom call to coordinate messaging and deployment of critical resources.

The operation has nothing to do with the crisis in Afghanistan — it’s about keeping President Biden’s big infrastructure push on track. Even amid the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the frantic, last-minute military operation to rescue thousands of Americans and vulnerable Afghans, the White House has maintained its overarching focus on the domestic matters it has prioritized for the last eight months.

“The No. 1 priority for our cabinet overall, from our perspective here, is to build support throughout the [August] recess process for the legislative agenda,” said Neera Tanden, a senior advisor to the president who oversees the war room. Tasked with building support for a $1.2-trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure and the Democrats’ $3.5-trillion budget proposal, Tanden is dispatching cabinet members to key states, monitoring lawmakers’ town halls and arranging hundreds of local TV interviews with administration officials.

Keeping up that effort in a week that saw Biden thrown into crisis mode amid the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is the sort of intense multitasking that the presidency demands. But it also reflects an administration’s determination — unusual in the modern era — to plow past the news of the day without diverting its focus from a singular agenda.

The administration’s discipline has helped it maintain public support and kept things on track thus far.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; biden; election2020; failure; journalism; marxism; media; press
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1 posted on 08/21/2021 9:53:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Biden focuses...??

The article can't be true since Joe can't focus on anything long enough to understand it.

2 posted on 08/21/2021 9:58:08 AM PDT by econjack
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These are the Assistant Democrats that enabled it.

Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)


3 posted on 08/21/2021 9:58:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is typical of liberals in general. They ignore the real problems and instead focus on the easy stuff - the stuff that can be “fixed” by spending money and making feel-good pronouncements.


4 posted on 08/21/2021 9:58:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...amid the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is the sort of intense multitasking that the presidency demands. But it also reflects an administration’s determination — unusual in the modern era — to plow past the news of the day without diverting its focus from a singular agenda.

The administration’s discipline has helped it maintain public support and kept things on track thus far.”

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5 posted on 08/21/2021 9:58:54 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wait ‘til Henri hits. Is feeble Fema ready?


6 posted on 08/21/2021 9:59:40 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The focus of the junta is crushing domestic opposition. Now they are arresting prominent commentators who were present -outside- the Capitol on January 6.


7 posted on 08/21/2021 10:00:57 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

American lives are no 1 domestic issue


8 posted on 08/21/2021 10:01:52 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You mean Mitch, Mitt, and “ Stay Tuned “ Limpsey are on the list of Quislings.

Please, say it ain’t so !


9 posted on 08/21/2021 10:04:59 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is this a hit piece or one where Biden is in charge because he is working on domestic policy


10 posted on 08/21/2021 10:05:49 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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Is this a hit piece or one where Biden is in charge because he is working on domestic policy

I think the Neo-Marxists call this crap "gaslighting".

11 posted on 08/21/2021 10:11:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, LA Times, Afghanistan is just a “hot spot” that has flared up.


12 posted on 08/21/2021 10:16:56 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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The disaster in Afghanistan is of little importance to Biden supporters. What they care about is they have full power and control over the U.S.

For once, the LA times is telling the truth. As the world watches the developments in Afghanistan, the Biden administration and communist drones are inching closer domestically to permanently entrench themselves in power.
13 posted on 08/21/2021 10:25:14 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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Never let a crisis go to waste. And the end result of all this will be hundreds of thousands of refugees coming here to complete the transformation of America. That’s all liberals care about, so for them, this is a big success.


14 posted on 08/21/2021 10:26:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Zoom calls? I wonder why they want their conversations routed through servers located in China.


15 posted on 08/21/2021 10:29:44 AM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

hot spots?!?!? The greatest military collapse and abandonment of principle in the history of the country is . . . a “hot spot”?


16 posted on 08/21/2021 10:31:40 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Scarcely a peep from poor benighted Haiti . . .


17 posted on 08/21/2021 10:32:18 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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Good point. The Dems are already demanding we open up for a flood of refugees from that part of the world. As those pouring in from the southern border, they too are likely to be Dem voters in perpetuity.


18 posted on 08/21/2021 10:34:34 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Dan in Wichita

Plenty of Pukes too.


19 posted on 08/21/2021 10:40:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: traderrob6

The GOP is determined to get this done for Senile Joe.


20 posted on 08/21/2021 11:10:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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