In modern political history, few presidents have had a better second year than Biden did in 2022.

[nightwing1240]

As the old expression goes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” but for Joe Biden this year, there was a heck of a lot more of the former than the latter. In modern political history, few presidents have had a better second year than Biden did in 2022.

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Yet, as we near New Year’s Eve, Biden is in an envious position for a first-term president. Sure, his approval ratings remain mediocre — amazingly, they are practically at the same point they stood one year ago — but Democrats just came through the midterms with one additional seat in the Senate, well below expected losses in the House, and crucial gains at the state level. Moreover, rather than languishing in the Senate, much of Biden’s legislative agenda became law — including a massive spending package that will lower prescription drug prices, strengthen former President Barack Obama's health care law, and pump close to $370 billion into the fight against climate change.

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So what turned Biden’s fortunes upward? It was a combination of luck, Republican extremism and an incumbent president who is better at politics than many political observers are inclined to acknowledge.

Link - https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/joe-biden-got-groove-back-2022-rcna62701
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There is much more at the link. Just a huge shoutout to President Biden who is doing a terrific job leading our nation. Please tell me again how the other side is winning (owning the libs). What a pathetic lot they are.

[underpants]

1. Good read. 3 more paragraphs

An even bigger break for Democrats came from their opponents. Republicans picked one Trump-loving, MAGA-embracing, election-denying extremist/political neophyte after another — from Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano and Blake Masters to Mehmet Oz, Don Bolduc and Herschel Walker — with predictable results. Nor is this problem going away for the Republicans, as demonstrated by Kevin McCarthy’s so-far ineffectual efforts to persuade the most extreme House Republicans to back his bid for speaker. Indeed, as House Republicans likely pursue investigations of Biden’s son Hunter, hold the debt limit hostage to demanding cuts to popular social insurance programs, such as Social Security or Medicare, or open impeachment proceedings of White House officials (including possibly Biden himself), the president can spend the next two years providing a stark, adult contrast.

It’s the latter that is likely Biden’s strongest political asset. Outside the conservative fever swamp, Biden is not a polarizing figure. Over the past two years, he has followed through repeatedly on his pledge to work across the aisle with Republicans. First, there was last year’s infrastructure bill. This year brought even more bipartisan achievements on gun control, same-sex marriage, veterans health care, investments in the U.S. semiconductor industry and military aid to Ukraine.

Yet, at the same time, Biden has kept his liberal base content. The decision this August to forgive tens of thousands of dollars in student debt was a priority of the party’s liberal wing. He has also aggressively moved to stock federal courts with judges, including the historic appointment of the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice (another 2020 campaign promise). And earlier this fall, he issued a blanket pardon for thousands of people prosecuted for possessing marijuana.

[nightwing1240]

4. Thank you!

I did not want to put too much in per rules of posting. Thanks again

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Trump's malfeasance left gaping hole for rebound, and Biden nailed it.

Hope we're singing the same song in 2024

[True Blue American]

3. JRB

Is right up there with FDR

Even the media is beginning to admit how wrong they were.

Except Jonathon LeMire, who has been subbing for Mika and Joe. That man is unfit to be a host.

[nightwing1240]

5. He's a watered down Chuck Todd

I don't care for him either

[katmondoo]

6. I love and admire Joe Biden. Without him there would be a dictatorship

with a fat lying scab at the top destroying your life and mine, and the rest of America.

[True Blue American]

7. I think you answered the wrong post.

Last edited Tue Dec 27, 2022, 03:07 PM - Edit history (1)

Do you know who JRB is?

[nightwing1240]

9. I had meant Lemire was Chuck Todd Light

I believe the R is an initial of President Bidens name

[True Blue American]

10. Well, I flubbed up, too!:)

[True Blue American]

12. Joseph Robinette Biden.

I had to google the middle name, knew it was R!

[True Blue American]

11. Two peas in a pod.

[republianmushroom]

8. like it

[Hekate]

13. "Biden is in an envious position" -- NO. "Enviable." His position is enviable. He is not envious.

It’s not your fault, nightwing, that no one employs proofreaders or copy editors any more — but sometimes it gets on my last nerve.

I am happy that MSNBC noticed Biden’s accomplishments — very. Hope they keep it up. Thank you for your post.

[Lucinda]

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