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Saturday Morning Open Thread: The DNC Winter Meeting

by Anne Laurie|  February 4, 20234:47 am| 322 Comments

This post is in: 2024 Elections, Open Threads, President Biden, Proud To Be A Democrat!, Vice-President Harris

President of the United States Joe Biden and Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris embrace and join hands on stage at the DNC Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 3, 2023. pic.twitter.com/MYskahcack

— Kyle Mazza (@KyleMazzaWUNF) February 4, 2023

The DNC is poised to rearrange its presidential primary calendar—making South Carolina the lead state. CBS News' @aaronlarnavarro reports on the reaction from the DNC's winter meeting. pic.twitter.com/MQHxHt5woO

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 2, 2023

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Biden reminds crowd of the three core reasons he ran in 2020: restore soul of America, rebuild the middle class, and unite the country. “The last is still the hardest thing to get done. But I refuse to give up. We can't give up.”

— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) February 3, 2023

This evening at the DNC winter meeting in Philadelphia was a lot like a campaign event. Biden and Harris together, flanked by excited sign-waving supporters (DNC staffers), giving stump speeches, working a rope line for a long time afterward. pic.twitter.com/Fz8DwpZeEH

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 3, 2023

From the @DNC meeting in Philadelphia, by @KThomasDC and me: https://t.co/ExuJTL73mM

— John McCormick (@McCormickJohn) February 3, 2023


Even the Wall Street Journal was, most unwillingly, impressed:

PHILADELPHIA—Democratic National Committee members gathered for their winter meeting say President Biden is in a stronger position than a year ago to claim his party’s 2024 nomination after a better-than-expected midterm election, legislative victories and a new foe to run against in the form of the GOP-controlled House. 

Mr. Biden has solidified his standing within the party compared to a year ago, when his legislative agenda appeared stalled and Democrats quietly talked about potential primary challenges.

“Let me ask you a simple question: Are you with me?” Mr. Biden said in Friday address to DNC members, who responded with loud chants of “four more years.” After outlining what he sees as his legislative achievements during his first two years in office, he told party activists: “We’ve got a lot more to do.”…

Mr. Biden faced few signs of dissent at a downtown Philadelphia hotel where DNC members on Saturday are expected to approve a 2024 primary calendar personally promoted by the president. The plan rewards South Carolina with the first spot, a nod to a state that boosted what was then a struggling campaign for Mr. Biden in 2020.

The DNC subcommittee on Thursday approved a resolution that pointed to a litany of administration accomplishments and expressed “full and complete support” for the re-election of the president and Vice President Kamala Harris, who will also address party activists here. The resolution is expected to be approved Saturday by the full DNC…

Pennsylvania remains among the nation’s pre-eminent battleground states in the country and has served as a political base for Mr. Biden, who spent part of his childhood in Scranton, and represented Delaware in the Senate for more than three decades. Party strategists at the DNC event briefed members on two major success stories in the state: John Fetterman‘s election to the Senate and Josh Shapiro capturing of the governors’ mansion. 

Mr. Biden is expected to make an announcement on his re-election campaign in March or April, according to people familiar with the process. His outgoing chief of staff, Ron Klain, suggested that the president’s pursuit of a second term was all but assured during a White House event Wednesday marking the transition to a new chief of staff. 

“I look forward to being by your side as you run for president in 2024,” said Mr. Klain.

@POTUS is in the house! "If they send me a #bill that cuts #SocialSecurity, I have a #veto #pen! 🖊-@JoeBiden @TheDemocrats #DNC #Winter #Meeting in #Philadelphia pic.twitter.com/Hckp6kfHBN

— Seema Kazmi (@DrSeemaKazmi) February 3, 2023

.@POTUS in Philly again calls current GOP “extreme MAGA Republicans.”

“ These aren't conservatives,”Biden says.” They are disruptive people.They intend to destroy the progress we made folks.”

“ They can’t pay their fiscal responsibility,” he says about House Republicans. pic.twitter.com/n13P6UdOw9

— Fin Gómez (@finnygo) February 3, 2023

Vice President Harris addresses the extremists who want to ban books and attack voting rights at the DNC Winter meeting in Philadelphia, PA. pic.twitter.com/OtyMH58ehb

— What VP Harris Is Doing (@WhereIsKamala) February 3, 2023

Honored to be in attendance with other elected officials and party leaders at the DNC Winter Meeting in Philadelphia. Lt. Gov. Flanagan and Speaker Pelosi were the highlights from yesterday's program. Pelosi was presented a crystal gavel for her years of service to the DNC. pic.twitter.com/m5Rm44fKtf

— Debbie Goettel (@HennepinDebbie) February 3, 2023

Here at the DNC Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, we had a great Seniors Council meeting this morning. Even at 8:30A, the room was packed!

We had to move the event early because @POTUS & @VP are coming soon!

Can’t wait to hear from them about the #BidenBoom! 517000 new jobs!

— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) February 3, 2023

In his nice well-tailored suit, Sen. Fetterman looks like a global ambassador from the World of Very Large People…

With the DNC Winter Meeting continuing in Philadelphia, Chairman Jones was excited to meet with Democratic leaders like @JohnFetterman and @PADemsChair Street! pic.twitter.com/wH6buu0l38

— NJ Dems (@NJDSC) February 3, 2023

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Here, There & Everywhere

by Anne Laurie|  January 31, 20239:20 am| 154 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, Healthcare, Open Threads, President Biden, Proud To Be A Democrat!

On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.

And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle. pic.twitter.com/n3iZ9etL4A

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 30, 2023

.@SecBecerra, the first sitting HHS Secretary to visit a @PPFA clinic, is speaking to the group’s DC summit today about what more the Biden admin can do to protect and expand abortion access. pic.twitter.com/3l6kXlnmmZ

— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) January 30, 2023

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This year, for the first time in history, the four leaders of the two congressional spending committees are women. https://t.co/Quas8lsh99 pic.twitter.com/xemyRJwpgN

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2023

Twenty years ago today, @PEPFAR was created. Since then, the American people have provided more than $100 billion to save more than 25 million lives. We remain deeply committed to ending HIV/AIDS by 2030. #PEPFAR20 https://t.co/Sx8Pardvca

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) January 28, 2023

NEW: A WH official says the administration is sending a group of officials to the funeral of Tyre Nichols funeral on Wednesday including Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mitch Landrieu, Tara Murray and Erica Loewe.

— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) January 30, 2023

Tyre Nichols' parents will attend President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to Congress next month.https://t.co/iuXPVXHMDc

— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) January 30, 2023

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott greet Biden after his helicopter landed in Baltimore. Biden’s here to talk about replacing a 150-year-old rail tunnel that Amtrak says is oldest in its system, lacks fire safety systems, suffers from flooding. pic.twitter.com/PYSniwvPPB

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 30, 2023

Wes Moore waves when a passing train interrupts his speech in Baltimore.
Modernization of the rail tunnel, renamed Frederick Douglass Tunnel, will be finished in about a decade, @iamwesmoore says pic.twitter.com/Wb8SmEXfOP

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 30, 2023

As part of her visit to Fort Drum, @FLOTUS and @DepSecDef are meeting with military spouses and leaders in the military-connected community for a conversation on improving employment opportunities for military spouses — one of Joining Forces’ focus areas. pic.twitter.com/DuyMxoJExW

— Vanessa Valdivia (@vvaldivia46) January 30, 2023

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Rise and… Feed the Beast!

by Anne Laurie|  January 30, 20236:49 am| 260 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Open Threads, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat, Vice-President Harris

There is no sleeping in when there's a cat to feed ?? pic.twitter.com/Xa77HD8IUT

— Catwheezie (@catwheezie) January 9, 2023

Biden says Willow the Cat has "no limits"

"Especially in the middle of the night when she climbs up and lays on top of my head"

— Justin Sink (@justinsink) January 26, 2023

President Biden and I are just getting started. pic.twitter.com/gLmNbpKGAN

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 29, 2023

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Looking forward to the mea culpa from political reporters who declared Biden's response a failure on the grounds that the public couldn't make a distinction between Trump's behavior & Biden's. https://t.co/F237QRiulU

— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) January 29, 2023

“I’m getting criticized internationally for focusing too much on America — to hell with that,” Biden said https://t.co/x83vrQofSa

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 26, 2023

https://t.co/kbLxp5hd8h

— Justin Sink (@justinsink) January 26, 2023

Yesterday, @VP convened state and local leaders for the first-ever White House summit on accelerating lead pipe replacement. With historic funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are taking action to deliver clean drinking water and replace lead pipes. pic.twitter.com/PD4I7qd6rJ

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 28, 2023

📺 You must watch this to understand the impact of the Biden-Harris administration’s promise of a 100% lead-free water future https://t.co/eKTGm7OddB

— Qondi (@QondiNtini) January 29, 2023

Strong growth, steady job gains and lower inflation: With an eye toward 24, Biden is touting the resilience of the economy under his watch. GOP says it's not his doing. Economists say it's risky. Glad to team up with @amieparnes on this one! https://t.co/XxGI3hTOBm

— Sylvan Lane (@SylvanLane) January 29, 2023

Presidents should always try to take credit for a good economy, because they're sure as hell going to catch the blame for a bad one. https://t.co/6xB5xM3Soi

— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) January 29, 2023

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TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Busy, Busy, Busy

by Anne Laurie|  January 27, 20239:04 am| 269 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

U.S. President Joe Biden pays tribute to the victims of mass shootings in California at a Lunar New Year event at the White House pic.twitter.com/2xOtrFfXWj

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 27, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is making progress and helping working families — but the House GOP is already working to undo it. https://t.co/OppI7En7yJ

— Sanford Bishop (@Bishop4Congress) January 24, 2023

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Remember when plenty of Wall Street analysts were saying that by the end of the year we’d be in a recession?

It turns out they were wrong.

Instead, we ended the year with one of the strongest economic recoveries in America history.

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 26, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden cast Republicans as representing the party of 'chaos and catastrophe' and sharply criticized their refusal to approve an increase in the nation's debt ceiling unless they get a deal on spending cuts https://t.co/1Pz7kqWx9a pic.twitter.com/VX0AWDPagw

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 27, 2023

Yes, there are problems — inflation is still far too high and poverty, while it dipped during the crisis b/c of gov't aid, is also still too high.

But to recover all jobs and output in basically 2 years is remarkable.

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) January 26, 2023

VA permanently housed more than 40,000 homeless Veterans in 2022, providing them with the safe, stable homes that they deserve.https://t.co/1gYSY7GzIt pic.twitter.com/yBmpl3VQve

— Secretary Denis McDonough (@SecVetAffairs) January 26, 2023

More news: The White House today announced significant new actions to protect tenants and make renting more affordable

For months, tenant leaders, housing experts & legal organizations have pushed the Biden admin to do more to keep people in their homeshttps://t.co/3ykzvJhOML

— Rachel Leah Siegel (@rachsieg) January 25, 2023

Walker Bragman, who spent the pandemic sheltered at his parents’ guest house in the Hamptons: But what has Biden done for meeee?

? ???????? ???????? ?????? ???? ??-?????????? ?????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????? https://t.co/RREywPLKqi

— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) January 25, 2023

Actually pisses me off a fair amount, because we showed that poverty was a policy choice! Left position should have been to make permanent in some form, not to ignore it because it didn’t reach white collar people who didn’t lose their job.

— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) January 25, 2023

Amen. Got laid off myself and helped a bunch of elderly/English as a second language coworkers get UI that for many was more than their paycheck while my college buddies screamed on social media about the government doing nothing.

— Egg-theow (@EggTheow) January 25, 2023

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Fun Read: Nancy Pelosi, Liberated & Loving It

by Anne Laurie|  January 24, 20235:50 pm| 61 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, NANCY SMASH!

“I think you want to enjoy being old. I don’t think you want to spend your final days fighting with Kevin McCarthy about how many seats you get on Appropriations.” https://t.co/tHzKZBfVzY

— Nancy Cook (@nancook) January 21, 2023

Surprising narrator, still a fun read. Gift (unpaywalled) read:

…I went to lunch with Nancy Pelosi at the Four Seasons to find out how she was faring, now that she has gone from being one of the most powerful women in the world — second in line to the presidency — and one of the most formidable speakers in American history to a mere House backbencher.

I was expecting King Lear, howling at the storm, but I found Gene Kelly, singing in the rain. Pelosi was not crying in her soup. She was basking as she scarfed down French fries, a truffle-butter roll and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts — all before the main course. She was literally in the pink, ablaze in a hot-pink pantsuit and matching Jimmy Choo stilettos, shooting the breeze about Broadway, music and sports. Showing off her four-inch heels, the 82-year-old said, “I highly recommend suede because it’s like a bedroom slipper.”

Fans dropped by our booth to thank Pelosi, and women in the restaurant gave me thumbs-ups, simply because I was sitting with her.

“I wonder, Maureen, girl to girl, I keep thinking I should feel a little more, I don’t know,” she hesitated, looking for the right word. Over the course of our conversation, she said the word was “regretful,” and she thought about it in church, and during morning and night prayers, but she just wasn’t feeling it. “It’s just the time, and that’s it. Upward and onward. I’m thrilled with the transition. I think it was beautiful.”…

Pelosi said she found it “particularly concerning” when McCarthy “went up to Gaetz on the floor. That seemed to be unnecessary.” She said, why not “work it out in the bathroom” or some other private space. “To me, it was indicative of the disrespect they had for the Congress of the United States, that they would not have had their act together. It was a cause of wonder that they had to take 15 votes. How does that bode for what comes next?”

Pelosi did not accept an invitation to sit with her protégé, the new minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for the speaker votes. She did not want to be the Godfather whispering in the ear of Michael Corleone. She chose to sit near the back with her old friends in the California delegation, Eshoo, Doris Matsui and Mike Thompson…

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[I don’t see Kevin McCarthy making ‘jokes’ about threatening Jeffries with his mighty gavel — Squeaker McCarthy would worry that his body might never be found. Kev is not a smart man; doubt that, even today, he understands just how thoroughly Speaker Pelosi pantsed him, time & again.]

Eshoo said Pelosi does not need to cling because her tenure was “jaw-dropping with a real sense of awe about the place and who came before us.” Her reputation, Eshoo said, “will stand the way the Washington Monument stands. They can’t chisel away at that.”…

I asked Pelosi how the savage attack on her husband of nearly 60 years, Paul, had affected her decision to step down. The beating with a hammer by a QAnon believer left him looking like Frankenstein under his dashing hat, Alexandra said, and with an incapacitated hand that the doctors thought he might lose. His daughter said he has handled it gracefully because he’s “a really cool cat.”

“I was probably going to go anyway,” Nancy Pelosi said. But, she added, “say we won by 20 votes and it was a big thing, I might have stayed. It’s true that I had two thoughts in mind when I went to the floor, to stay or not to stay. It was time to move on.”

She said that in 2016: “If Hillary had won, I could have left. But I was not going to let Donald Trump have his way with the government.” She was also irritated that she was constantly asked if she was too old for the job when Mitch McConnell, who’s about the same age, wasn’t…

As we left the Four Seasons, Pelosi showed me a turquoise ring she was wearing given to her by Afghan female artisans and said she “would like to see Congress be a stronger voice for women in the world.” She also said she would like to help the women in Congress in any way she could.

Won’t she still be a celebrity, even without her old title and big staff and wide balcony?

“I was a woman of great power, and now I’ll be a woman of great influence,” she said. “Whatever that happens to be.”

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Saturday Night Slap-Fights Open Thread: Biden’s SEEEEEKRIT Documents

by Anne Laurie|  January 21, 20237:26 pm| 82 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment, President Biden

This morning, the @washingtonpost published an exhaustive investigation of the Biden classified docs story by some of its best reporters showing that Biden’s lawyers and aides did everything right, and nobody noticed. https://t.co/KGpCHdRNXc

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) January 20, 2023

Our Failed Major Media may’ve spent four years badly underestimating the damage TFG was doing to national security, but by gawd they’re gonna make up for it by chewing on President Biden’s ankles now. Both sides!, the signature call of the Media Village Idiots as they flock up…

They alerted the Archives. They alerted the DOJ. Nobody without clearances handled the documents. They made no statements for fear of being accused of interfering with the inquiry. Etc.

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) January 20, 2023

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No one would be this transparent & correct unless they had something even darker & more horrifying to hide /s https://t.co/3OX803eGpX

— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) January 20, 2023

That’s because today’s White House reporters would rather have you focus on their whiny shit instead…https://t.co/3If9I5NJiD
Today’s White House reporters don’t want the boring truth. They want juicy, gossipy click-bait headlines. They all miss the Trump circus atmosphere!

— post.news/donnayoungdc @[email protected] (@DonnaYoungDC) January 20, 2023

At its best the NYT is the best newspaper in the country. But it’s often far from its best, & puts out a fuckton of craptacular garbage. The Washington Post, however, seldom is as bad as the NYT

But when the WaPo is horrible it’s usually Michael Scherer, Annie Linsky, or Viser https://t.co/F4MKwjtI81

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 20, 2023

FTFNYTimes, of course, cannot allow this challenge to go unanswered:

I apologize for being crude, but I honestly can’t think of another way to summarize my reaction, so I’m just gonna go with it:

What the fuck did I just read? pic.twitter.com/dibGXgpe1f

— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) January 20, 2023

68 Days of Silence: Why the White House Stayed Mum on Classified Documents

the white house not making a public announcement about an investigation that they have been participating in entirely in good faith because they didn’t think there would end up being anything to announce is not an especially juicy story

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) January 20, 2023

My gut says they're pissed they didn't get any leaks or scoops. What they want is normalcy, & to them "normalcy" means both a competent, earnest government, & ample opportunities for reporters to take potshots at & stoke drama around that government. They want Bill Clinton back.

— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) January 21, 2023

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Speaking Up for Team Dem

by Anne Laurie|  January 21, 20236:16 am| 158 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Vice-President Harris

I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future than I am today. pic.twitter.com/EJmvmpRr8q

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 20, 2023

Remember, social media users: Caring is sharing!

For two years, @POTUS & @VP have worked with the Democratic Congress to deliver For The People.
 
By creating 11 million jobs, lowering health costs, investing in education, veterans & climate action, and promoting justice, President Biden has kept his promise to rebuild America. https://t.co/e4RF3SAk7h

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 20, 2023

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Think of where our nation was just two years ago: small businesses shuttered. Millions out of work.

Fast forward to today: The last two years have been the strongest on record for new small business applications, with more than 10 million applications across America.

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 20, 2023

Unemployment rate is lowest in half a century.

Thank you to the American people.
Thank you @POTUS and @VP.
Thank you American Rescue Plan, and Infrastructure Law.

Democrats put #PeopleOverPolitics and are focused on jobs.

What is GOP focused on? Cutting Social Security. https://t.co/uIbJd4BgPX

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 20, 2023

The White House @PressSec confirms a Biden-McCarthy meeting but douses any notion of debt ceiling haggling.

“Like the President has said many times, raising the debt ceiling is not a negotiation; it is an obligation of this country and its leaders to avoid economic chaos.” pic.twitter.com/44iEqm69d1

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) January 20, 2023

PSA, for Left Coasters:

Californians in Merced, Monterey, Sacramento, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz counties are also eligible for assistance and relief if their home was damaged. Find more information on individual disaster assistance here:https://t.co/1MnIzIlkgI

— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 20, 2023

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