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Biden's Epic Fail at Unity
realclearpolitics ^ | October 17, 2021 | Debra Saunders

Posted on 10/18/2021 5:37:14 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Some nine months into his tenure, it's evident that Biden's unity pledge ranks with former President Barack Obama's campaign whopper, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," which won him PolitiFact's Lie of the Year in 2013.

It's not just that Biden isn't producing unity; it's also that he's squandering the moment for a bad idea.

GOP senators provided the votes for a $1 trillion infrastructure measure so that it passed the Senate. They stuck their necks out. Then he bailed out in favor of a $3.5 trillion behemoth, dubbed Build Back Better, a darling of his party's progressive wing, but not the center.

With two years of free community college, universal preschool, and 12 weeks paid family and medical leave, Biden has set himself up to be not just better than vanquished President Donald Trump but a "transformational" president.

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona believe that much spending is not good for America's wallet. In August, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated the $3.5 trillion measure would force $2.9 trillion in borrowing over a decade and lift the debt to 115% of GDP by 2031.

It's a 50-50 Senate. Come on, man, you move to the middle, not the far left.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; mandates
Biden's promises are just as good as Obama's.
1 posted on 10/18/2021 5:37:14 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

They never intend to unify anything. They maintain their power by doing just the opposite.

Prove me wrong.


2 posted on 10/18/2021 5:39:04 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

He doesn’t care. He’ll keep doing this, and next summer the press will start covering for him 24/7.


3 posted on 10/18/2021 5:39:38 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

They never wanted to unify. They want to divide. That’s how they use power - one side against another.


4 posted on 10/18/2021 5:39:51 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

False premise. Biden is a rousing success for the political class and their donors. Division is worse than ever and becoming more toxic by the day.

And that is what they want.


5 posted on 10/18/2021 5:40:38 AM PDT by brownsfan (For conservatives, we have taxation without representation.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
 
 
 
 

6 posted on 10/18/2021 5:41:18 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: brownsfan
Division is worse than ever and becoming more toxic by the day.

The title says that that failed at "unity," not that they failed at their real goals. The article demonstrates that they lied about their real goals.

7 posted on 10/18/2021 5:58:06 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Some nine months into his tenure, it's evident that Biden's unity pledge ranks with former President Barack Obama's campaign whopper, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,"

Stop picking on a poor, sick old man.

The big difference between Obama's promises and "Biden's" is that Obama knew what he was saying.

8 posted on 10/18/2021 5:59:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I will be dead a long time before I will unite with a lying, cheating, thieving son of a bitch like Joe Biden. Donald Trump is my President.


9 posted on 10/18/2021 6:07:40 AM PDT by sport
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

At least more Americans are now unified in disapproving his job performance.


10 posted on 10/18/2021 6:07:47 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Jim Noble

The ‘poor sick old man should NEVER have even been a CANDIDATE for office.


11 posted on 10/18/2021 7:21:02 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

That was never his plan.


12 posted on 10/18/2021 7:24:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Nifty
They never intend to unify anything

Exactly, Obama did more to divide the races than unify, that's what he intended.

13 posted on 10/18/2021 7:26:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Biden’s Epic Unity

When your money become his


14 posted on 10/18/2021 8:03:01 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"Unity" was just a campaign slogan.

-PJ

15 posted on 10/18/2021 8:07:37 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Nifty
They never intend to unify anything. They maintain their power by doing just the opposite. ... Prove me wrong.

I won't try to prove you wrong because you are not wrong. Totalitarian government with them in charge is what they want.

16 posted on 10/18/2021 9:46:54 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
"Unity" was just a campaign slogan.

I think some Dems actually believed it, but the smarter, more evil ones knew.

17 posted on 10/18/2021 12:37:43 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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