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Joe Biden’s POTUS twitter feed on Mar 28, 2022 had this quote “My father had an expression: Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget — and I’ll tell you what you value.”
So first I raise the question, what does Joe Biden care about? I refer of course to politics, assuming he cares deeply about his family, his dog and the welfare of credit card companies all through Delaware.
I will tell you what I thought Dems needed to care about after the Trump apocalypse. Packing the Supreme Court with non Christian nationalist judges. Ending the filibuster. Forgiving student loans. Washington D.C. statehood. Puerto Rico statehood.
Giving statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. would have immediately given 4 extra senators to the Dems and increased their power to do other things. Ending the filibuster would have taken a powerful obstructionist tool out of the Republican hands.
That’s what I thought Biden should care about. In August 2021 Biden told us what he supposedly cared about. A giant infrastructure bill that embodied his campaign slogan (such as it was) Build Back Better.
This was actually two infrastructure bills as Joe Manchin was still chasing the dream (ie. political cover) of bipartisanship. One of the bills was actually called the Bipartisan Infrastructure…
