If Joe really believes that he can work with Mitch McConnell

[dansolo]

Why wasn't he able to get McConnell to even allow hearings for Merrick Garland? As VP he was technically president of the Senate. As a former chairman of the Judiciary Comittee he would have been in the perfect position to challenge Mitch McConnell directly on his blatantly unconstitutional act of blocking even a hearing for Obama's Supreme Court nominee. All this talk about working with the other side is meaningless if you can't them to occassionally move to your side. This so-called bipartisanship has been pretty one sided.

[stonecutter357]

1. good let's go Joe !

[trev]

2. Did you even read the post? nt

[trev]

3. I asked something similar twice in other threads.

I'd really like to know what Biden's actual plan is for the bringing over of Republicans to compromise.

[StarfishSaver]

4. That's an excrllent point

This applies not just to Garland, but all of Obama's stalled nominees - judicial and otherwise. People like Cassandra Butts, who worked closely with Biden in the Obama White House and died waiting for Senate confirmation.

Link to tweet

[theaocp]

7. You cannot trust Republicans, full stop.

Not in a box, not with a fox, within or without socks. Devastating points.

[Corgigal]

5. Remember when Obama,

went over to congress after he won? Photos of him waving, that we get to know each other to work together? I thought either Obama doesn't understand what is really going on in the Republican Party, or he does and he just feeding his voters a line of B.S.

Still love Obama, but this working together crap hurt real people. Not rich people, real people.

[gldstwmn]

6. I can't wait to see how he works with

the NRA especially after the next mass shooting.

[zackymilly]

9. Joe said the NRA is not the enemy.

Joe Biden said Thursday that gun manufacturers, not the National Rifle Association (NRA), are the Democratic Party's "enemy" in its efforts to reform gun control laws.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/450807-biden-enemy-is-gun-manufacturers-not-the-nra

[gldstwmn]

10. That is exactly what they are in addition

to being a money laundering front organization for the Russians in our last election cycle. Does this sound like a group we want to work with?

[democrank]

11. Recommended

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Sounds like Schumer is cut from the same cloth.

[JudyM]

13. Spot on. K&R.

He also should NOT have been caught flat-footed when Harris came after him:
1) it was an easily foreseeable debate issue and he was unprepared (word is he waved away advice of staff to prepare for this issue, which is poor judgment)
2) how the hell will he be able to handle tRump and co. attacks/smears if he can’t effectively parry “friendly” fire?
3) unlike folks who attack him on the basis of pure chronological age, his reaction suggested he is far from his cognitive best. This is a problem.

He has dropped down my list.

[bluewater]

14. K&R