Jay Weber Show transcript 9-28-21 7:41am
Steven Hayward over at the Powerline blog makes the case that Joe Biden’s presidency is looking more and more like Jimmy Carter’s. In fact, the similarities are uncanny.
Nine months in, Biden’s approval rating has hit a new low of 40 percent in the daily tracking poll, and his agenda is stalled out and may be going nowhere, even though his party controls both chambers of congress-
As Carter’s did.
Jimmy carter and the Dems even had a filibuster proof majority in the senate, back in the late 70s, and carter-still! -couldn’t get his agenda passed.
Why?
Because parts of it were too radical for the democrats back in carter’s day- just as parts of Biden’s agenda are too radical for some of these democrats today.
I see the similarities and believe it’s worse for Biden. His handlers and political allies are-literally-insisting that, yes, Biden’s presidency has been disaster after disaster, but if they can just pass ram home a massive expansion of government that no one voted for- everything will magically be better: Biden’s presidency will be a success, and he can spend the next three years governing competently and capably...and win a second term for either himself or Kammy.
And so, I’ll ask my democrat friends again: what is it about the last nine months, that makes you believe Joe Biden and this group in the white house will magically flip a switch and govern competently for the next three years?
Even if Pelosi and Schumer can manage to ram home some version of Bernie’s reconciliation bill?
What magically gets better?
The smaller infrastructure bill isn’t a good bill, either even though some republicans are supporting it- but if it passes-it’s not the end of the world. At least some important infrastructure projects will get done and a legitimate ‘need’ of the American people will be taken care of. Even if it is too costly and includes a lot of non-infrastructure spending.
This bill was never really in question, and it isn’t what we have been talking about: okay, six in ten voters support it.
Whatever.
What about Biden’s, quote build back better plan which is really Bernie’s reconciliation bill? Where are the numbers on that?
They don’t include them.
But they do include this-which is-not- a win for Biden, either.
They claim those results are good news for Biden and the Dems.
No. They aren’t. People blame the democrats by 10 to 12 points more on both a shutdown and a default, and only one in five Americans would blame the republicans for it.
How is that good news?
Well....a third say they’d blame both parties.
Oh. Okay. But that means over 2/3 of the country are blaming democrats either entirely- or mostly.
How does that help the Dems in this upcoming showdown on the debt ceiling?
Most people will be blaming the Dems-not republicans.
Folks, even their accomplices in the left-wing media are starting to grasp at straws-trying to find good news anywhere they can.
I talked earlier about the false narrative out of dc this week:
Everyone in dc seems to agree that this is a make-or-break week for the Biden presidency.
I’m saying ‘how?’ what can possibly happen to save Joe Biden’s presidency?
Well-Pelosi and Schumer can pass Bernie’s socialist spending bill that the radicals in their party want to get thru.
Okay. And... how? Does that make Biden more popular? Or a better president? Three-quarters of the country never voted for it-and doesn’t support it.
How does passing it ‘turn things around’ for ole’ Joe?
No- levelheaded democrats like Doug Schoen get it right, when they suggest that Biden’s presidency is already awful-and a loss of his promised agenda really makes his failure complete.
Control of the house is already lost to them-and control of the senate is in question. If the democrats cannot pass Bernie’s agenda in Biden’s name- a small flood of socialist progressives might be so pissed that they refuse to vote for -any-traditional democrat next fall. And that could even tip some senate seats to the GOP.
But the pundits are acting as if Biden’s presidency and the democrat majorities in congress are salvageable, and i don’t believe they are. Dems lose the house-almost certainly next fall, and i cannot believe that Biden and his handlers are going to get-any-better at running this country and/or making better decisions moving forward.
They have forced America into being an ‘open borders’ country, against the wishes of 80 percent of the American people. What ‘wise decision’ on the horizon do you see changing that?
We’ve already seen most of the Biden/democrat agenda left on the slaughterhouse floor.
I know people have short memories and our news cycles move quickly-but think about how many failures Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer have already suffered and how much of this ‘new democrat’ agenda is already dead....nine months in they promised their supporters a fifteen dollar an hour min wage.
Nope.
More gun control.
Nope.
Police reform.
Nope.
Pelosi’s election cheating bill.
Nope.
Protecting roe v wade.
Nope. Won’t happen.
Amnesty.
It doesn’t look like that will happen. Nope.
And according to the politico-this is one reason that the socialist members of Pelosi’s house have dug in on the reconciliation bill and insisted that-by god-it will pass or we will burn the moderate’s infrastructure bill to the ground: because Bernie’s bill is the only real hope forany socialist wins, now. And we are only 9 months into Biden’s term.
Their left-wing agenda is being soundly rejected by most Americans- these extremists that bubbled up in the party post-Obama could be shoved back onto the fringes over the next few elections.
AOC is now being mocked more than she is being praised on the left. The American people are fighting back against critical race theory in the schools and defunding the police. They hate the high crime rates that these socialists manufactured in our biggest cities with their BLM and Antifa riots...etc.
The socialist horde’s push to take over this country is finally getting significant push back, and there’s a good chance that these so-called ‘justice democrats’ and their activist groups suffer big setbacks in 2022 and 24.
And so- yes- they are increasingly desperate to get a win-any win-that suggests all this protesting, looting, and shrieking of the last several years leads to something.
They need-some sign- that they are growing in influence over America, rather than being pushed aside, again.
And this reconciliation bill is the final thing they are clinging to, because every other promised agenda item has already fallen from more gun control to the fifteen dollar an hour min wage.
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