As soon as this “inquiry” starts, someone needs to start a dollar counter for the money Congress is wasting in their endeavor. Nothing screams louder than tax dollars wasted in frivolous ways.
Every time I see those polling numbers, I think that USians are, as Canadian singer Eileen McGann put it in her great song, "too stupid for democracy." But as she points out at the end, "All of the alternatives are worse." So I guess we've got to carry on, getting out the vote and supporting everyone who's fighting voter suppression in the courts and elsewhere.
I'm not as optimistic as Dan. I think this may have a withering effect on Biden's support. I mean, the guy passed the largest climate investment ever, threw his full support behind unions (which is very anti-corporate, BTW), pardoned all federal marijuana simple possession convictions and is having its schedule class reassessed, forgave $10k of student loans only to have it blocked and then came back with another action to forgive $10k of debt, has presided over the lowest sustained black and hispanic unemployment rates in history and the lowest overall in 60 years, while keeping US economic growth higher than any other G7 country since 2021, and he's been losing support since mid-2022! FFS, that indicates to me people are just looking for reasons to abandon him. This will give them yet another one, no matter how much of it is total and transparent BS. I am concerned we are holding on to an old political model of the incumbent having a distinct advantage. I think the world of Biden, and would vote for him again in a millisecond, but clearly I am not representing a significant enough portion of Dems and Indies.
How much is it costing us, the tax payers, to investigate and go through the motions of impeachment? Is it just lack of will that the media doesn’t point this out. Let’s defund impeachment.
I really wonder if impeachment will backfire this way. One of Biden's biggest weakness is erosion of support among black and Hispanic voters, as well as working class voters in general, compared to 2020 (per Nate Cohn's analysis in NYT today); I'm not sure that impeachment will bring them back.
Will the media actually hold the Republicans responsible for a shutdown? Or will they ‘both sides’ their way to somehow blaming the Democrats?
I mean, it should play out as you say, Dan, but my faith in the media is shaky, at best.
As soon as this “inquiry” starts, someone needs to start a dollar counter for the money Congress is wasting in their endeavor. Nothing screams louder than tax dollars wasted in frivolous ways.
Every time I see those polling numbers, I think that USians are, as Canadian singer Eileen McGann put it in her great song, "too stupid for democracy." But as she points out at the end, "All of the alternatives are worse." So I guess we've got to carry on, getting out the vote and supporting everyone who's fighting voter suppression in the courts and elsewhere.
I'm not as optimistic as Dan. I think this may have a withering effect on Biden's support. I mean, the guy passed the largest climate investment ever, threw his full support behind unions (which is very anti-corporate, BTW), pardoned all federal marijuana simple possession convictions and is having its schedule class reassessed, forgave $10k of student loans only to have it blocked and then came back with another action to forgive $10k of debt, has presided over the lowest sustained black and hispanic unemployment rates in history and the lowest overall in 60 years, while keeping US economic growth higher than any other G7 country since 2021, and he's been losing support since mid-2022! FFS, that indicates to me people are just looking for reasons to abandon him. This will give them yet another one, no matter how much of it is total and transparent BS. I am concerned we are holding on to an old political model of the incumbent having a distinct advantage. I think the world of Biden, and would vote for him again in a millisecond, but clearly I am not representing a significant enough portion of Dems and Indies.
Is the WSJ poll you cite really worth anything at this point? Not sure there is any longer a real barrier at WSJ between the news and editorial pages.
How much is it costing us, the tax payers, to investigate and go through the motions of impeachment? Is it just lack of will that the media doesn’t point this out. Let’s defund impeachment.
McCarthy is so feckless and devoid of testosterone.
I really wonder if impeachment will backfire this way. One of Biden's biggest weakness is erosion of support among black and Hispanic voters, as well as working class voters in general, compared to 2020 (per Nate Cohn's analysis in NYT today); I'm not sure that impeachment will bring them back.