Biden tweet from Texas a few minutes ago

[Vidal]

Link to tweet

[Skya Rhen]

1. Thank you, Joe - you are doing a great job!

[LakeArenal]

2. Yeah. That's the stuff.

[RainCaster]

3. That's the stuff that a real president would do

[11 Bravo]

4. Trump has responded thusly:

No education! NO education! YOU'RE the education! Wait ... what?

[Celerity]

5. can you please give me Biden's tweet on the Mueller presser and what is his opinion on Barr's lying

and also on the question of at least opening an impeachment enquiry.

TIA

[MrsCoffee]

7. Biden campaign: Impeachment 'may be unavoidable' now:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/446031-biden-campaign-impeachment-may-be-unavoidable-now


Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign took its strongest position yet on impeachment of President Trump on Wednesday, with the campaign saying it “may be unavoidable” in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks earlier that day.

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In his remarks Wednesday, Mueller emphasized that while his investigation should not be interpreted as an exoneration of Trump, Justice Department policy prevented him from charging a sitting president with a crime.

“The Special Counsel made clear that it is incumbent that Congress pick up the pieces of his report on which he did not reach definitive conclusions or that he could not act upon due to Department of Justice guidance,” the statement reads. “Congress must do everything in its power to hold this Administration to account. That is what Congress is doing and should do: continue to investigate.”

The Biden campaign’s emphasis on allowing congressional investigations to play out echoes that of Democratic congressional leadership. Earlier this month, after reportedly initially pressing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to be more open to impeachment, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) counseled patience on the various House investigations, citing court victories in House Democrats’ efforts to subpoena various records from the White House and Trump’s businesses.

Biden’s statement accuses the Trump administration of “throwing up roadblocks” against congressional investigations and calls Attorney General William Barr’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe an “extraordinary internal vendetta against law enforcement and intelligence community investigators who were doing their job.”

[Celerity]

8. thanks!

[Honeycombe8]

13. In other words...no impeachment now or soon. Continue investigations of whatever.

Sidestepping a bit. Impeachment may be unavoidable. Maybe. At some point in the future. Maybe. Don't know when. If ever.

[LanternWaste]

21. Not necessarily. Yours is only one of many possible inferences.

A long and winding inference, lacking any substance to support it as well.

But I get it... we often tell ourselves what best suits our narrative, and deny all other possibilities. Like really bad B-movies.

[Honeycombe8]

22. "Impeachment may be unavoidable" is self-explanatory. It means maybe, but maybe not.nt

[emmaverybo]

32. No. It means what it says which is "The House may have to impeach."

[Honeycombe8]

34. "May." Not "will." Not "should." Not "probably." Not "likely." Maybe, maybe not. As I said.nt

[emmaverybo]

35. So? In any case, the votes are not there. It is not up to Biden. Try to convince House members.

[Vidal]

36. Right

it's up to the House

[Demsrule86]

14. Impeachment could cost us the house and the presidency...you all may feel 'good' about it but not so

much in January 2021...if Trump gets another four years with unlimited power.

[BannonsLiver]

17. +1

But hey it’ll feel good and itches will be scratched. So you know, there’s that, which is way cooler than the house or WH!1!1

[Demsrule86]

18. It is a waste with no chance of conviction and everything to lose.

[emmaverybo]

33. Agree. How bout we work on forestalling the next Russian attack?

[Demsrule86]

37. That works for me.

[Cha]

6. .@NEAMedia issues statement praising Joe Biden's education policy

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Honeycombe8]

9. The fed doesn't control state teacher pay or school districts & school taxes.

Or does it? I didn't think so.

[Vidal]

10. not directly

you are right, but there could conceivably be federal money authorized for this, through the Dept of Education.

Plus a president can influence what state governments do, and they can have an impact on state teacher salaries.

Plus, Biden is running for president and it makes a good sound bite.

[Honeycombe8]

12. Okay, that's what I thought. The fed doesn't have control over that.

Raising teachers' salaries continues on into the future. The fed could do something for now or for a short while, but doesn't have control over teachers' salaries. That's what I thought.

Sound bite.

[Demsrule86]

15. A number of other candidates have said they will raise teacher pay...funny no one said anything

about the feds vs the states.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Another candidate said he/she WILL raise teacher pay? Who?

I haven't seen that.

No matter who says that, my response would be the same. Candidates usually say teacher salaries SHOULD be raised, not that he will raise them. But I haven't seen the others say that. To be fair, I only pay attention to several of the candidates, since I'm not interested in the others.

[Demsrule86]

19. Harris has for sure...and there are others.

[Honeycombe8]

20. Oh. I don't follow her. She's okay, but not one I'm zeroing in on. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. Sanders. He called for $60k salary minimum for teachers, IIRC.

[Honeycombe8]

25. I don't follow him, either. With several saying that, maybe the fed has control over salaries?nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

26. No, it does not. When candidates make statements like that, I'm assuming they're talking about

bringing the influence of the federal government in general or their bully pulpit in particular to bear.

[Honeycombe8]

27. I see. Then that's what the candidates should say.

Otherwise, they're giving the impression that they can raise salaries.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. Horse, barn, etc.

[LuvNewcastle]

30. In my state, teachers are state employees.

I don't know if the federal government has regulations on teacher pay, but it's always the legislature who handles pay raises in Mississippi. They've been fighting over it since I was in school. I graduated in 1987.

[Honeycombe8]

31. Yeah...see, that's what I thought. We pay state/district school taxes & such. nt

[Scurrilous]

11. ...

[Gothmog]

24. I heard that the Houston meeting was a good event

[Hortensis]

28. Or by the needs of business, as fascist Scott Walker

would have it as he worked to eliminate studies in humanities from state college curricula.

Go, Joe! In the information age, higher education especially should be both far better and less expensive than ever before.