Biden’s Passive Voice Chickenshit Malarkey
Biden still refuses to call out the racist white supremacists currently running the Republican Party by name. Why? Some vain hope that “the good Republicans” will reassert themselves? Fear of losing the 250 “centrist” voters who don’t like confrontation? Give me a fucking break.
In his Buffalo speech, Biden declared, “Hate will not prevail.” He described “a hate that through the media and politics, the internet, has radicalized angry, alienated, lost, and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced.” And he warned, “The American experiment in democracy is in a danger like it hasn’t been in my lifetime … Hate and fear are being given too much oxygen by those who pretend to love America but who don’t understand America.”
Too much of this was in the passive voice. Those who pretend? Why didn’t Biden name names?
Karine Jean-Pierre, the new White House press secretary, told reporters traveling with the president that Biden did not want to elevate those people by identifying them. “The people who spread this filth know who they are,” she said.
Sorry, but that is wimping out. This is no time for cowardly lions. There is still a fundamental decency to most Americans that needs to be reawakened. In that respect, moral leadership is also good politics.
Biden should be naming not just those like Matt Gaetz or Elise Stefanik who explicitly espouse these hatreds, but those in the Republican leadership from Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy on down who refuse to break with the explicit haters.
After the Buffalo killings, Liz Cheney tweeted: “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Biden is the president. He should display at least the gumption and moral clarity of Liz Cheney.
Congressman reveals Republican plan for terrorism at school boards
Only one House Republican voted for the domestic terrorism bill:
“Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who opposed the legislation, argued it could enable the Justice Department to “target” parents who dissent at school board meetings.”
Shorter Roy: “Racial terrorism is protected speech.”
It seems there is no limit on the Republican assault on government, school boards etc. As ever the Dems fail to fight back, and I blame us. Yes us, we’re the party of the Coons , Carpers and the incredibly forgettable LBR (Who?). Too few fighters, far too many clowns who talk about bipartisanship when the other side has long ago declared war.
Relying too heavily on his memory of how things were in the old Senate, Biden doesn’t want to consider the White Supremacy party as “the enemy.”
He should maybe watch 15 minutes of Fox News and see how White Supremacy party literally wants him (and his family) swinging at the end of a rope and re-calibrate based on the current reality.
For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art of bipartisanship.
(with apologies to E.P.)
“The people who spread this filth know who they are,” – no they dont because their hypocrisy and lunacy are so true that they believe what they are saying. For me republicans ruined the hope for a decent future and democrats ruined the hope for a decent government