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Biden Blunders On

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Biden Blunders On

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President Biden hasn’t had a lot of face time with reporters, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t made any verbal missteps since his inauguration.

A self-aware mistake-prone politician who has talked himself into hot water more than once, Biden largely has been shielded from the press as coronavirus restrictions limit direct access to the new president. He opened up a bit to reporters following a COVID-19 event on Tuesday, saying he hopes the country is back to its pre-pandemic normal “this time next year.” But he returned to his tight-lipped ways when asked what he learned in a border security briefing earlier in the day: “A lot.”

Biden’s habit of making verbal flubs has long been part of his political identity, and they can still prove problematic, according to Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture.

“Every time Biden talks, there’s always the calculated risk that he’s going to give us a ‘Biden-ism,'” Thompson said. “Because he is older than an awful lot of presidents, I think many people are trying to read into it, you know, is he losing his facility?”

But Thompson predicted Biden will weather the criticism as long as his miscues are not “creepy,” referring to allegations of Biden making women feel uncomfortable by invading their personal space, or implied “a disconnection with reality” or “a competence issue.”

“The important thing is, we make the distinction between saying something goofy or silly and saying something dangerous or offensive,” he said.

A month into his first term, Biden had so far been spared the scrutiny received by the likes of former President George W. Bush, who often struggled with public speaking, as the country deals with a public health and economic crisis.

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Biden the most absent President ever

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Biden the most absent President ever

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The White House has continued its trend of shielding Joe Biden from scrutiny after suddenly cutting the feed of a virtual event after the president said he was “happy to take questions” from Democratic lawmakers.

The reluctance to hold a Conference recalls the time last year when then-candidate Biden largely holed up in his Wilmington, Del., home while the coronavirus and the Presidential Campaign were churning.

Biden set up a studio in his home and took part in media interviews and talks with supporters and voters via virtual meetings from his basement, tightly controlling which reporters got to ask a question, if at all.

Charismatic Obama held the record at 69M votes, and Trump who worked hard to win his 70M votes.

You have to ask yourself, how did Biden achieve 80M votes with minimal disclosure of Policies, Campaigning and no tough questions from the Press.

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Crisis-Children Immigration on the rise

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Crisis-Children Immigration on the rise

President Joe Biden is expected to face his first crisis as commander-in-chief with a record surge of illegal minors at the U.S.-Mexico border, Axios reports.

The Biden administration’s reversal of the Trump administration’s decision to return all unaccompanied minors to Mexico rather than bringing them into U.S. custody is a leading factor for smugglers sending 2,000 children over the border each week this month, the Washington Examiner reports.

This year alone, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) projects there will be 117,000 unaccompanied child migrants crossing the border without proper shelter available.

“I actually think that’s an undercount,” Victor Manjarrez, Jr., a former senior Border Patrol agent who teaches about law and human behavior at the University of Texas at El Paso, told the Washington Examiner.

Manjarrez pointed to the Biden administration’s decision to discontinue the 10-month practice of returning all unaccompanied children to Mexico rather than bringing them into U.S. custody as a leading factor for smugglers sending 2,000 children over the border each week this month. After taking office in January, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed border officials not to send any single child south of the border, choosing instead to stick along the lines of a 2007 trafficking law that protected most single children from being deported.

Axios sources say HHS is expected to reach its shelter capacity this month, but the Biden administration is downplaying the issue.

On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the current situation at the border is not a crisis.

Biden is expected to attend a private briefing on the border Tuesday.

 

 

Sources
DHS warns Biden of Crisis
February: Border Patrol transferring more than 2,000 children per week

$1.9tn Stimulus Package little for Pandemic related Recovery

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$1.9tn Stimulus Package little for Pandemic related Recovery

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This legislation is supposed to be about ending the pandemic, reviving the economy, and providing Americans the financial relief they need to make it through this tough stretch. It is disappointing to see House committees straying from that mission. It’s time to refocus.

The goal of COVID relief is to end the pandemic, protect incomes, and support the economic recovery. The House bill not only spends far more than is needed to achieve these goals, but also puts too many of these plentiful dollars in the wrong places.

Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Only about 1 percent of the entire package goes toward COVID vaccines, and 5 percent is truly focused on public health needs surrounding the pandemic. Meanwhile, nearly half of the package will be spent on poorly targeted rebate checks and state and local government aid, including to households and governments that have experienced little or no financial loss during this crisis.

More than 15 percent of the package – about $300 billion – is spent on long-standing policy priorities that are not directly related to the current crisis. Much of these policies do not belong in a COVID relief package.

Senate Republicans slammed what they call House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Subway to Nowhere” — a $100 million allocation for a Silicon Valley underground rail project. The funds would go to phase two of the Bay Area Transit Authority expansion project underneath San Jose.

Republicans also slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s “Bridge to Nowhere,” which allocated $1.5 million from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for operations, maintenance and capital infrastructure activities of the Seaway International Bridge in New York.

The COVID-19 relief package also includes billions of dollars to support climate change, $86 billion for union pensions, a $350 billion bailout for states — which Republicans say is not a responsibility of taxpayers across the country — $180 million to change the definition of an “at-risk school child,” which Republicans say includes individuals up to 24 years of age “for purposes of emergency meal reimbursements under the Child and Adult Care Food Program.”

Republicans also slammed the bill’s “new taxpayer-funded executive branch employee emergency leave program,” which allows “nearly seven times the current 80 hours of emergency leave with 600 hours of additional emergency leave with no requirement that it be due to COVID-19, and no oversight or justification needed” through the end of fiscal year 2021.

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Where did the 97% agreement on Climate Change Crisis come from?

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Where did the 97% agreement on Climate Change Crisis come from?

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The claim that 97% of the world’s scientists agree is pretty much the ace of trumps in the whole climate debate. After all, who’s going to argue against a consensus that strong, backed by so many experts. But what exactly are they supposed to agree on? If you look behind the curtain, no one seems sure what the experts actually said.

At first glance it seems straightforward enough. In 2013 President Barack Obama famously tweeted that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.”

In 2014, his Secretary of State John Kerry said 97% of “the world’s scientists tell us this is urgent.” And that same year, CNN said “97% of scientists agree that climate change is happening now, that it’s damaging the planet and that it’s manmade.”

That’s pretty much what most people think when they hear the 97% slogan: Every scientist believes man-made climate change is an urgent crisis.

But there are millions of scientists in the world. How many exactly were surveyed? When were they surveyed? Who did it? And what exactly did they agree on?

Please take the time to watch this video below, it tackles this question about the 97%.

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