Our Dangerous World. Governed By Our Mental, Mean Spirited, Lying, Wimp Of A Leader. Who Shook The Jar?

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We live in a mean/dangerous world. When I hear people who prefer Biden because they find Trump offensive and a lout etc. I ask myself are they living in a world different than my own? Don't they realize we are living in a world where wolves circle. Nations want to destroy us and are being allowed to do so through drugs, rapists, criminals, illegal immigrants, open borders and vast monied cartels and you know the rest.

We are being governed by a mental wimp and our enemies are gaining on us in every department from currency to military, commerce to world dominance.  Our government and mass media have failed us. Our own citizens are turning against the greatest nation in the world.  China attacks our basket ball association and we place our tails between our legs.

Where is John Wayne and his American spirit.?  Russia arrests a WSJ Reporter because Putin knows Uncle Sam is weak and his beard can be "Yanked."  

America has become a pathetic place, led by the New York Times which has turned into a gutter piece of disinformation and anti-Semitic bias. The top  general in the Pentagon actually called his Chinese counterpart to tell him he would protect China from an out of control president and remains in his cushy soft leather swivel chair.  He should have been thrown out  his window for tyrranid behaviour.

What the Democrats have accomplished is to turn Trump into a persecuted Jesus like martyr

Amazing!!!
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BIDEN WOULD RATHER PLAY POLTICS THAN MOVE TOWARD SOLVING  OUR DEBT ISSUES.  HIS ATTITUDE AND POSTURE ARE THAT OF A PRESIDENT WHO WOULD APPEAR TO WANT TO DESTROY OUR CURRENCY, CRIPLE OUR ABILITY TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND CONTINUE ALONG THE PATH OF FISCAL IRRESPONSBILITY.

HOW MANY HOOKS DO THE CHINESE HAVE IN BIDEN BY WAY OF HUNTER?

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McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Offer

The GOP appears to have gotten its act together. Will Biden continue obstructing?

BY Kimberley A. Strassel

Joe Biden has been betting his debt-ceiling strategy on continued GOP House disunity—not a bad wager in light of initial Republican turmoil. But what does the White House do if Speaker Kevin McCarthy gets his team onside? We may be about to find out.

Mr. McCarthy unveiled his debt-ceiling strategy this week, and the party looks to have found a landing spot. In a Tuesday letter to Mr. Biden, Mr. McCarthy notes the rapidly approaching “X” date for hitting the country’s borrowing limit and asks for a meeting. More notably, he unveils the GOP’s term sheet—laying out several spending reduction proposals as examples of what House Republicans might trade for a debt-ceiling hike. Democrats can no longer claim they don’t know what the GOP is asking for. Republicans have made their offer. Over to you, Mr. President.

Remarkably, Mr. Biden stiff-armed Mr. McCarthy—again. The leader of the House has now been refused any communication on the debt limit for two months—unable to get a single chin-wag or meeting with Mr. Biden, the White House chief of staff, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen or even some midlevel aide. The White House is warning of apocalypse if it is required to cut even a penny from current spending, while claiming no talks can happen until the House GOP produces a budget resolution. It is ordering the opposing party in the House to raise the limit with “no strings attached.”

This is irresponsible brinkmanship wrapped in bad spin. Mr. Biden knows his demand for a GOP budget is a canard, unnecessary for talks. Just as the president’s wild $6.9 trillion budget was dead on arrival in this House, any GOP budget resolution is DOA in a Democratic Senate. Both are pure messaging documents. And it’s not as if anybody needs to know, say, the proposed Republican 2028 top line for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get a debt ceiling/spending reform deal.

Mr. Biden’s real aim is to coax Republicans into a protracted internal fight over a sprawling resolution, wait out the clock, then jam the GOP into a clean hike. Precisely because the president has been so openly salivating over the prospect of a GOP budget brawl, House Republicans have decided they aren’t going to give him the satisfaction—at least not before a debt ceiling moment. House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington says any GOP budget resolution is months away. This is designed to delink the question of the resolution from talks. (And yes, it also conveniently puts off a messy GOP fight.)

Mr. McCarthy can do this in part because of the work of Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves, who for months has been holding talks with the speaker’s office and the heads of the “five families”—ideologically diverse caucuses that represent the bulk of House GOP members. Republicans may not yet have agreement on a budget, but those meetings and communications did produce support for the list of spending reforms Mr. McCarthy now offers in return for a debt-ceiling hike. They include returning nondefense discretionary spending to pre-Covid levels, clawing back unspent pandemic funds, imposing modest work requirements for some benefits programs, and enacting policies to lower energy costs and enhance border security.

This has the potential to rewrite debt-ceiling dynamics. If Mr. Biden still refuses to negotiate, Mr. McCarthy could move to pass a short-term debt-ceiling increase with some modest savings attached. Then dump it in the Senate’s lap, and put it on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to act. Would the White House and the Senate then risk default?

So far, the White House is indicating it will continue to play hardball, perhaps in the hope that Mr. McCarthy’s caucus cracks. And it could. But if the GOP holds together, this White House may have to acknowledge that Republicans won the House and fully intend to use what few must-pass pieces of legislation exist to accomplish some of their priorities.

The GOP proposals meanwhile have the benefit of being considered and reasonable—especially in light of recent insane levels of spending. They also have the potential to draw the support of some Democrats, who are increasingly eager to show the public that they are aware of and care about inflation and today’s $31 trillion in debt.

If the GOP House remains united, the White House might even face the prospect of a series of short-term debt-ceiling hikes, which could continue to consume Washington oxygen. The White House will have to decide if it prefers that scenario to a larger deal that extends the ceiling past the 2024 election.

No one wants a default, but no one can also deny political reality. The entity holding the debt ceiling hostage is a White House refusing to talk with a GOP House that wants a deal and now appears to know what it’s after.

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