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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…. That’s not dancing...
LOL
At first, Biden offered to provide documentation. Then, he
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simply accepted the response as on-the-spot agreement from the
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GOP to keep the programs intact.
Busted in another one of his lies endless events.
He may have “flexed his dexterity” but did he remember to put it back in his pants?
and yet, he dint name any names that want to sponsor said LIE...
Rick Scott has been running his mouth on Social Security and its need for cutting it.
I knew he wouldn’t be able to keep it in his pants ...
shoulda named him...
and it’s one guy, yes?
flexed his dementia...
This from the asshole who sponsored taxing social security! Twice!
NBC= Nothing But Crap.
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