While I largely agree with your criticisms, it seems only fair to acknowledge Biden's limited options. A Republican controlled House means that budget negotiations were going to be extremely difficult no matter what. The House could, without reference to the debt limit, send the government finances into a tailspin by refusing to fund administration programs, either new or preexisting. Appropriations must be initiated in the House and without House approval, no budget can pass. Added to that is the thinnest of all possible majorities in the Senate (Manchin and Sinema, Inc.). I think the voters deserve most of the blame. Progressives have not demonstrated an ability to get support at the polls.
Some of his successors have done "liberal" things FDR would not have likely done. Truman integrated the military. Johnson and the Civil Rights Act. Just sayin'.
They were butchers on a truly grand scale, too, who were forced to do what they did because overt white supremacism wasn't the vote getter it used to be. Good for them for yielding! But I don't know what that has to do with the party's enthusiasm for punching left.
While I largely agree with your criticisms, it seems only fair to acknowledge Biden's limited options. A Republican controlled House means that budget negotiations were going to be extremely difficult no matter what. The House could, without reference to the debt limit, send the government finances into a tailspin by refusing to fund administration programs, either new or preexisting. Appropriations must be initiated in the House and without House approval, no budget can pass. Added to that is the thinnest of all possible majorities in the Senate (Manchin and Sinema, Inc.). I think the voters deserve most of the blame. Progressives have not demonstrated an ability to get support at the polls.
The Democratic party's guiding principle since FDR died is "you can never go wrong punching left."
Some of his successors have done "liberal" things FDR would not have likely done. Truman integrated the military. Johnson and the Civil Rights Act. Just sayin'.
They were butchers on a truly grand scale, too, who were forced to do what they did because overt white supremacism wasn't the vote getter it used to be. Good for them for yielding! But I don't know what that has to do with the party's enthusiasm for punching left.
Guess I don't know what you mean by punching left.