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Agenda languishing, Democrats press Biden to go it alone
The Associated Press ^ | March 12, 2022 | By FARNOUSH AMIRI

Posted on 03/12/2022 6:04:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Top Democrats are pleading for President Joe Biden to act alone on some of the party’s core legislative priorities, viewing executive action as their best hope of delivering on their promises and energizing liberal voters they worry are going to sit out the elections in November.

In areas like voting rights, police reform and immigration where Democratic bills have been thwarted by GOP opposition in the Senate, the leaders of the influential Black and Asian American caucuses made their requests directly to Biden during a recent meeting at the White House, urging him to issue executive orders that could push their proposals forward without votes in the House and Senate.

The pleas come at a particularly desperate moment for House Democrats, who are heading into a difficult midterm election season where the loss of only a handful of seats will end their majority. Biden’s flagging poll numbers are adding to the steep headwinds Democrats are facing in a midterm election year that historically has been unfavorable to the party in power.

The hunger among Democrats for Biden to go it alone is widely shared. House leadership and rank-and-file members echoed Jayapal’s sentiments on the path forward as Democrats gathered for their annual issues conference in Philadelphia — an event that almost didn’t happen, fittingly enough, due to party infighting over new emergency funding for COVID-19 relief.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aphoneandandpen; associatedpress; biden; blackkk; democrats; despotism; farnoushamiri; insurrection; insurrectionists; marxists; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; phoneandandpen; ronklain; sedition
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This is an insurrection.
1 posted on 03/12/2022 6:04:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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Imagine if it was a Republican how the headline would be.


2 posted on 03/12/2022 6:11:16 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So... a continuation of doing everything they were screaming that the evil orange man would do once he got in office.

Got it.


3 posted on 03/12/2022 6:13:06 AM PST by Egon (I collect spores, molds, and fungus.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is how its done in Farnoush’s home town.


4 posted on 03/12/2022 6:13:23 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In areas like voting rights, police reform and immigration where Democratic bills have been thwarted by GOP opposition in the Senate,

I resent voting integrity being referred to as "voting rights" that GOP opposition has thwarted.

5 posted on 03/12/2022 6:13:27 AM PST 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: Oldeconomybuyer
In areas like voting rights, police reform and immigration where Democratic bills have been thwarted by GOP opposition in the Senate,

Except there are a couple democrats that are also sort of not following every command of the leftist tyrants.

6 posted on 03/12/2022 6:17:18 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This WILL happen! The EO’s are very close. This is the one and only last shot the Dims have to reimagine America and they will stop at nothing.


7 posted on 03/12/2022 6:23:49 AM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“...Democrats press Biden to go it alone...”

WTF?

I mean, the US has a Constitution....so that no individual may ‘go it alone’!!

It's one thing if you don't read the book... it's another thing if you throw the book away!

‘Depart from the book at your own peril’.

8 posted on 03/12/2022 6:24:08 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most of the damage of the past year has been done outside the legislative process anyway — the erasing of our southern border, the Afghanistan disaster, and our loss of energy independence,


9 posted on 03/12/2022 6:34:42 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He should go it alone, but not how they think. He should govern as the lame duck he is and throw the progressives overboard and govern as a populist.


10 posted on 03/12/2022 6:38:24 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SMARTY

We’ve learned the left is happy to enact its agenda through executive action even when the congress has specifically voted down such measures. That’s how we got daca and judges blocking trump efforts to undo executive edicts saying people were relying on the policy in place and there was no good reason to abandon it. This is real insurrection. It’s anti constitutional, anti representative government. It’s totalitarianism under the fig lead of protecting “democracy.” Doublespeak is alive and thriving.


11 posted on 03/12/2022 6:39:33 AM PST by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban “Thanks Joe!”- Putin$$)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Police reform........

What is needed in American cities is an end to Black criminality

Black criminals are truly a black plague on America that is destroying the once decent cities


12 posted on 03/12/2022 6:41:31 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: devane617

“they will stop at nothing.’


If only there was something our congressional representatives could do to stop this madness.

Something besides stomping their feet and complaining on camera for the rubes back home.

Nope, I guess not.


13 posted on 03/12/2022 6:51:22 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Executive Action declarations are NOT the way to run this country.

IF Biden is doing everything-—CANCEL CONGRESS


14 posted on 03/12/2022 7:01:42 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: devane617
This WILL happen! The EO’s are very close. This is the one and only last shot the Dims have to re-imagine America and they will stop at nothing.

The loss of their cushy government jobs is highly motivating.

15 posted on 03/12/2022 7:05:39 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Don Corleone

“We’ve got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately, immediately! Harrumph, harrumph!”


16 posted on 03/12/2022 7:11:32 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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any EO on police reform would only apply to federal law enforcement....anything else would just be stopped in the Courts...immigration etc...


17 posted on 03/12/2022 7:18:12 AM PST by basalt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dictatorship

A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders that hold government power promised to the people and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media.


18 posted on 03/12/2022 7:25:01 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gosh, when President Trump issued Executive Orders - and he issued far fewer than resident Biden has so far - the Left claimed it was tyranny and he was acting as a Caesar.

Yet now they’re urging him do to just that. How strange.


19 posted on 03/12/2022 8:05:59 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: newzjunkey
You're right...and it's getting worse.

Liberals LOVE to leap-frog all the legitimate, established protocols and formal mechanics of getting stuff done.

It's the only way they can promote their agenda because otherwise, their lies, treason and criminality would be TOO obvious!

20 posted on 03/12/2022 8:41:45 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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