Powerline by Scott Johnson 10/29/2021
Yesterday morning the White House posted a summary of its so-called Framework of a Spendapalooza bill to be jammed through Congress by Democrats via the reconciliation process. The White House posted the summary just before President Biden went up to Capitol Hill to meet with the House Democratic caucus.
Biden followed up with one of those 20-minute White House speeches in which he stares vacantly into the teleprompter while he struggles to read the text served up to him. The White House has posted the text of his remarks here. I have posted the video below.
The falsity of the remarks lies somewhere between painful and outrageous. Listening to Biden recite the text is tortuous. If ordered by a court as punishment for a crime, it might violate the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
Not a single congressional Republican supports the Spendapalooza in any form, yet this is Biden’s line:
I want to thank my colleagues in the Congress for their leadership. We’ve spent hours and hours and hours over months and months working on this.
No one got everything they wanted, including me, but that’s what compromise is. That’s consensus. And that’s what I ran on.
I’ve long said compromise and consensus are the only way to get big things done in a democracy, important things for the country. More:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/not-reconciled-an-update.php
