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☆ Biden’s Early Announcement Isn’t a Sign of Confidence
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jason L. Riley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Potomac Watch: Democrats belatedly admit Dianne Feinstein is too old to serve. Images: AP Composite: Mark KellyPresident Biden isn’t afraid of running against Donald Trump next year, but fellow Democrats appear to have spooked him into announcing his re-election bid ahead of schedule. Mr. Biden initially intended to hold off on a formal announcement until late spring or early summer. Why draw media attention away from Mr. Trump’s legal problems or from his public feuding with Florida Gov. When your political opponents are fighting with one another, it’s better not to interfere.

☆ Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Thick, Cracked Goggles of Grievance
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar,” she tweeted, capitalizing on her professed faith without properly capitalizing it. Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine?”President Biden isn’t waging war in Ukraine. Either way, their predetermined sense of grievance is the prism through which all is passed and all is parsed. can see the lefty secularism and reverse racism — the wokeness, in a polarizing word — in any turn of events. Witness their conspiracy theories, their militias, their actions on — and then revisionism about — the Jan. 6 rioting.

☆ Joe Biden Isn’t Sorry About His Afghanistan Withdrawal
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Americans are heading into a holiday weekend and the press is preoccupied with President Trump’s legal travails, so naturally the Biden Administration on Thursday afternoon dumped its review of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Americans are unlikely to fall for 12 pages of narrative gaslighting, and the buck for that dark episode stops with President Biden. The White House document “outlines the key decisions and challenges” associated with the departure of U.S. troops in August in 2021. Mr. Biden “believed the right thing for the country” was withdrawing all U.S. forces, the White House says, even as it blames the debacle on—wait for it—Donald Trump.

☆ The Missing U.S. Submarines for Australia
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

President Biden in San Diego on Monday announced a deal to help Australia acquire U.S. nuclear-powered submarines, a step forward by a stalwart ally to check Beijing. But Mr. Biden isn’t highlighting the dysfunctions in American submarine production, nor the urgent need for a generational effort to expand the U.S. Navy’s undersea fleet. The Pacific and the world are at “an inflection point,” that will “affect the prospect of peace for decades to come,” as Mr. Biden said on Monday, and the submarine deal is an expansion of Aukus, the 2021 defense pact among the U.S., U.K. and Australia. The agreement has three planks: Putting submarines on station Down Under; offering the Aussies at least three U.S. Virginia-class attack submarines in the early 2030s; and a new, late 2030s submarine that blends British design and U.S. technology.

☆ Why voters don’t want Biden or Trump but might get them anyway in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Even as President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump move toward a rerun of the most turbulent White House race in modern history, many voters are pining for a break from the past – and the present. A new CNN/SSRS poll shows that 6 in 10 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents want their party to nominate someone other than Trump in 2024. A Biden versus Trump race would raise questions over whether a bitterly polarized political system, where democracy itself is at stake, has lost the capacity for self-renewal that has always been an American strength. The CNN poll shows Biden on an upward trajectory and in a better position in his party than Trump is in his. The question of his age, however, might be less important if Biden faces Trump, who is already 76.

Biden had been hopeful that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be more apt to free Griner once America’s midterm elections were done, a calculation that proved correct. Still detained in Russia is Paul Whelan, a businessman whom the White House has also been working to free without success. In a 2012 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he was vice president, Biden came out in favor of same-sex marriage, and he is expected to sign the measure into law. White House officials acknowledged the headwinds and worried that the midterm elections would be a repudiation of Biden’s record. “When I look at what the Biden White House has done, I think experience and patience really paid off,” said Jennifer Palmieri, who served as White House communications director during the Obama administration.

☆ How did Democrats make it so close in the House midterm elections?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +18 min

While the GOP did still take the House, the close margin of victory was a performance well below what was possible. Here are eight perspectives from across the ideological spectrum on why the Democrats were able to make it so close. And this reality was essential given the defection of Black and Latino voters to the Republican Party and its candidates. America can credit Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s obstruction of a democracy bill and an economic bill for the narrow Republican House majority. But now, America needs to deal with a Republican House, thanks in good part to Manchin’s obstruction.

☆ When are the 2022 Midterm Elections? What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Joshua Jamerson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for battles across the country for control of the House of Representatives, Senate, governors’ mansions and state legislatures. The party in power in Washington—in this year’s case, the Democrats, who control the House, Senate and presidency—typically experiences losses in the midterm elections. Midterm elections occur every four years, in the middle of the president’s four-year term. Although President Biden isn’t on the ballot, the outcome will determine how the rest of his term will look.

☆ Biden’s student loan cancellation plan to cost $400B, Congressional Budget Office estimates
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 in federal student debt for most borrowers will cost the government about $400 billion over 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in an estimate released Monday. The report also noted that the administration plan to extend a pause on federal student loans will also cost about $20 billion. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a group that advocates for lower deficits, said the CBO's predictions confirm "the outrageous cost" of Biden's student loan plan. "The Biden Administration’s student debt bailout is even more expensive than we initially thought," tweeted Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. "The current bailout will cost Americans $420 BILLION, according to the CBO. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, tweeted, "President Biden isn’t forgiving student loans—he’s charging hardworking Americans $400 billion."

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