Posted on 02/08/2023 7:35:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Republicans are quick to suggest that President Joe Biden has lost a step — but he proved nimble enough Tuesday night to box them in on Social Security and Medicare. And he did it, in part, by going off script.
Nearly halfway through his State of the Union address, Biden said that "some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years" and that others would like to use the possibility of defaulting on federal debt as leverage to cut those programs.
Republicans jeered. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a newly empowered voice in her party, yelled, "Liar!"
At first, Biden offered to provide documentation. Then, he simply accepted the response as on-the-spot agreement from the GOP to keep the programs intact.
"As we all apparently agree," he said, departing from his prepared remarks and grinning like a cat with a canary feather stuck in his teeth, "Social Security and Medicare is off the books now."
There's a duality to what sounded like a snap policy victory for Biden: To whatever extent he protected the entitlement programs, he also made it harder to campaign on the idea that Republicans are bent on destroying them. But perhaps more important, as he gears up to run for re-election, Biden demonstrated the mental dexterity that critics — and, in private moments, even some allies — say he lacks.
For Democrats, there was a certain pleasure in seeing Biden dance around the ring.
"Did @potus just bait-and-switch the GOP into agreeing to protect Medicare and Social Security on live national TV?!" former Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va., wrote on Twitter.
That's exactly what he did.
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No fan whatsoever of the corporate media. They are all corrupt.
That rates a double facepalm!
ridiculous spin
[[he said, departing from his prepared remarks and grinning like a cat]]
The left have obviously hired a script writer and given copies of the script to all the feckless msm who are now emphasizing bidens confused grin by claiming it as a “shrewd grin”- and it is very likely so eone whispered in his ear through his earpiece what to say.
But the ignorant msm narrative is going to be that biden “trapped” and “outwhitted” and “outfoxed” - they are essentially tryingmto salvage his embarrassing moment by attempting to put lipstick on a pig as the saying g goes.
The cartoon in post number 8 perfectly sums up,what is going on. It’s amazing that the left have been able to prop him up for as long as they have while the rest of the world laughs at us.
He flexed his ability to lie.
This was all planned. It was absolutely stated that Medicare and SS were off the table. So what does Brandon do? Bring it up in the speech and then the left says, look how Brandon made the right take Medicare and SS off the table.
The leftist base is eating it up on twitter.
“proved nimble enough”
“grinning like a cat with a canary feather stuck in his teeth”
“demonstrated the mental dexterity”
“dance around the ring”
Oh, brother.
While only Rs are mature enough to admit entitlement spending will soon be bankrupt and eventually something must be done before everyone suffers, no one has proposed concrete proposals to cut SS & Medicare/aid. Maybe Joe can send me a copy.
Now, Ds have lost their biggest campaign arrow; Rs want you to die.
SS / Medicare finances improve dramatically after boomers pass to higher ground. Which brings to mind COVID deaths— too radical for my taste— but not for the party of fewer earthly inhabitants; the Party of Death—from conception to burial.
LOL
SS is called “The Third Rail” of politics for a reason.
Biden’s a lowlife liar... only the stupid and insane believe him.
Dexerity....yeah, that’s the ticket.
There. Fixed that.
Thanks... Better - works for me.
at 80, he could be in traction for weeks
That's not dancing. That's a juicy turd that escaped his Depends and is rolling down his pants leg as he tries to shake it out.
Only thing he flexed were the tabs on his depends.
Did he mention any of the other myriads of products made from petroleum?
Oh the Former Dem Water Gun buddy of Xiden during the Kenyan term with his a DNC smear merchant wife .
Irrelevant sociopath DC leftist.
Well played sir!
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