Biden says Democrats likely to fall short in bid to keep House

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Today, President Biden said Democrats are likely to come “very close” but not keep control of the House once all races are called. The president made his prediction during a news conference in Indonesia, where he is attending the Group of 20 summit and met on the sidelines for three hours with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “I absolutely believe there need not be a new cold war,” Biden told reporters afterward.

In Washingon, Congress is returning for a lame-duck session while control of the House for the next two years remains unresolved. House and Senate Republicans are scheduled to hold leadership elections this week amid recriminations about why a “red wave” failed to materialize. Among the issues that could be tackled in the lame-duck session: Ukraine aid, electoral college changes and same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, former president Donald Trump is gearing up for a Tuesday event in Palm Beach, Fla., at which he is expected to announce a 2024 White House bid.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/14/elections-news-house-races/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Time to crank up my typewriter machine and ask my GOP Congressman to repeal Obamacare /nt

[NCjack]

2. I think that Prez Joe is just adjusting expectations of DEMs.

[Lonestarblue]

3. I wish it weren't so, but he's probably right.

At least they will not have a huge majority, and with all the different factions whoever is speaker will be herding cats.

[usonian]

4. While the GQP is caucussing ...

Can we sneak in single-payer universal medical, dental and eye care, (free for seniors), voting rights act, reproductive and marriage freedom, prohibition of gerrymandering, equal-time fairness act for cable, radio and internet news, campaign financing reform (think of the billions), minimum taxes on the rich, closing loopholes the size of Asia, repealing taxes on social security income and IRAs, doubling the size of the extreme court, reforms helping with housing costs and rents, codifying separation of church and state, repeal of the dystopian "Citizens United", abolishing the need for "health insurance", the cruelest ruse played on Americans, prohibition of assault weapons, serialization of all ammunition, vastly increasing the V.A. and decreasing its limitations, and legalizing certain substances, giving them away free to seniors, who have lived through way too much of this horseshit called "unbridled capitalism". ?????

Asking for a friend.

Thank you.


P.S. WE CAN GET THERE:
Speaker Pelosi needs our help (can be done from anywhere) with ballot curing for CA, NV & AZ!!
https://democraticunderground.com/100217367858

[onenote]

5. as you know, the answer to your question is that we cannot do those things

We didn't, and couldn't do them before election day. What has changed that makes it easier/more likely to happen in the next few weeks?

[usonian]

6. Repubs will be caucussing a lot (in disarray). Catch them off-guard? (sarcasm?)

Everything that's real today was a wild-ass dream some time in the past.

[SlimJimmy]

8. I agree. Sometimes on DU we ask for the pie in the sky.

It looks like the Democratic agenda will be slowed down for the next two years. That doesn't mean we can't make some progress by creating deals with the Repubs on some smaller issues.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. Pelosi should just not give over the gavel. She should sandbag like McConnell did in the Senate

find a few races to contest to prolong it all like they did after the 2020 election. Look for any loophole to deny the transfer like they do. We need to treat these assholes as bad as they would treat us.