Rescue team 7 torrent4/9/2023 ![]() Is this a case of rose coloured travel glasses? Let’s go right back to 1947, when Qantas flew the kangaroo route all the way from Australia to London. So why do people love the idea of old fashioned travel? After all, it was a lot of time in the sky. You look out the window and see lights from the fires still burning at the shanties overlooking the airport. The plane lands, the aircraft door swings open, and the intense smells of India fill the plane. Imagine you’re half way into your flight to London. There is every risk the Democrats will lose their control of Congress in the midterms because they are not governing. The lessons of history from a decade ago, with a 50-50 Senate requiring all Democrats to stick together – and Biden ensuring that they did – left no margin for error. ![]() The midterm elections are less than four months away. Inflation and interest rates are soaring. Over 75% of the voters believe America is on the wrong track. And Congress has failed to pass a law to restore it. And for American women, their constitutional right to abortion has been lost. There are no deliverables from this Congress on economic inequality, racial justice, voting rights, gun control, and immigration. Biden and the Democrats are paying a vicious political price from their failures in the context of this history Because they cannot win the midterms if they cannot govern. And Democrats need to show that the Congress they lead can do big things. Biden wants- and needs-to show the country, and the world, that American democracy can work again. This is why the Democrats are insistent this get done. If the infrastructure program is enacted, on top of the rescue bill, and health care and education and income security programs are expanded, if real results are apparent by the end of 2021, then the killer midterm history for the incumbent party in the White House, where they lose on average two dozen seats, may not recur next year. In 2021, the issues include addressing profound issues of economic inequality, racial justice and voting rights, gun control, forging a renewable energy economy, reforming immigration, and rebuilding America’s infrastructure. We therefore see the course of the first two years of President Biden’s historic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill as revisiting and operating with the benefits of lessons drawn from much of the history from the 111th Congress in 2009–10. ![]() I believe in the power of the Green New Deal. We will not allow a future of climate disaster. His anger was on display for the world: Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has been a warrior on clean energy and climate change for decades. It means that President Biden, for all his commitment on this issue, can offer only words on behalf of the United States – and not action. The inability to pass any legislation to effectively fund the move towards renewables and electric vehicles means that the United States will not meet its 2030 climate targets of a 50% reduction in fossil fuel emissions by 2030. Gone is Biden’s proposed global minimum tax Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have asked global economic allies – including Australia – to adopt.Īnd gone was any hope for any meaningful progress on climate change – a pillar of Biden’s presidency. Gone are minimum taxes on super-billionaires to fund these social equity programs. Biden also faces recession fears amid inflation and soar in cost of living. Biden’s program offered universal pre-k, childcare, public housing, paid family leave, dental, vision care for seniors, free community college. Gone – with no hope for passage in Congress – are Biden programs across education, health care, seniors and income security to help working families cope with the costs of living. The Biden agenda has been shredded with a vengeance. He repeated his brutal termination of Biden’s transformative Build Back Better program – the centerpiece of his first term – last December. SUMMIT COUNTY COLORADO - Manchin had had enough. President Biden was in Israel when the shocking news came late last Thursday night in Washington: talks between Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, and Senator Joe Manchin, the champion of the coal industry from West Virginia, to reach agreement on what was left of President Biden’s ambitious legislative agenda on climate change, health and taxes had collapsed.
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