President Biden is looking ahead to 2024, and we're looking at his recent policy highs and lows.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA
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Time to check-in on ole’ Joey B.

* As the Republican presidential primary ramps up, we should talk about what’s happening on the sane side of the aisle. That’s right: I’m talking about President Joseph Robinette Biden. The only challenger in Biden’s lane is Marianne Williamson. She might have what it takes to help journalists fill their false-equivalence quotas with reports about strangeness on #bothsides but she doesn’t seem to have a strong case for ousting an incumbent. A new Emerson College poll shows that the number of Democratic voters who think President Biden should be the 2024 Democratic Nominee is increasing ([link removed]) for the first time, as voters shed their misgivings about his age, with 71 percent of Dem voters ready to give the guy another term.


* Perhaps most surprising, support for Biden, redux, is highest among 18-34 year olds. Great, now I can’t stop imagining Biden singing “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going ([link removed]) ” from Dreamgirls. It’s at least a little funny that the guy who was not at the top of many lists for the 2020 race has won so many of us over, or at the very least has us saying, “This guy for another four years? Okay, sure.” Credit where credit is due: President Biden has delivered on about as many of his campaign promises and the demands of progressives as he has the power to do. Not all of them, certainly, but a hell of a lot more than we ever expected.

* To that end, President Biden announced today that he will seek to raise the Medicare tax on high earners ([link removed]) and push for more drug price negotiations to help keep the federal health-insurance program for seniors afloat and running through at least 2050. The proposal is to raise the tax from 3.8 percent to 5 percent on earned and unearned income over $400,000 as part of a package aimed to extend the solvency of Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Biden wrote ([link removed]) , “Let’s ask the wealthiest to pay just a little bit more of their fair share, to strengthen Medicare for everyone over the long term.” Hell yeah. Using the momentum from his raucous State of the Union address where he backed Republicans into saying they wouldn’t go after Medicare and Social Security in debt ceiling negotiations is clearly an
effective strategy.

But President Biden also has some, uh, areas for improvement.

* The Biden administration is considering reviving the practice of detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally ([link removed]) , which would reverse his decision to shut down the policy in favor of a more humane immigration system. For the past two years, the administration has largely ended the practice of family detention and instead used tracking methods like ankle bracelets and traceable cell phones to keep track of migrant families after releasing them into the United States. But the White House has taken a more restrictive posture as it struggles to handle increasing flows at the border and the resulting attacks from the right-wing that come with that. Biden’s tough new approach includes a crackdown announced last month ([link removed]) that could disqualify the vast majority of migrants from
being able to seek asylum at the southern border, an overt embrace of a Trump-era approach to immigration.

* The president’s continued support of the GOP crusade to block DC’s revamped criminal code is a frustrating head-scratcher, and out-of-step with most center-left elected Dems. As Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) pointed out ([link removed]) , the bill features pretty modest, reasonable changes, like “lower[ing] the carjacking maximum to 24 years…IN LINE with many states,” while also increasing(!) sentences for violent crimes like attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, misdemeanor sexual abuse, and many other crimes.

The truth is, Biden is and has always been fairly conservative on crime and criminal justice reform—this is the man who helped author the infamous 1994 crime bill, after all. It’s one issue where he hasn’t been willing to meet progressive Democrats at least half way. And while that doesn’t invalidate the other accomplishments the administration has made thus far, it’s important to keep trying to think of new ways to pressure him to stop facilitating more cruelty in our broken carceral system. Maybe Marianne has some ideas?
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When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson exclusive access to Capitol security footage from January 6, 2021, we knew what was going to happen. Well, last night, it happened. Carlson used it to disseminate a new fictional narrative about the attempted coup. Even after texts and emails leaked showing that Fox News executives and hosts (including Carlson!) privately knew the Big Lie was horseshit, they soldiered on. Carlson now says that January 6 wasn’t an insurrection at all. Lol!! Even Senate Minority Leader Mitch fucking McConnell told reporters ([link removed]) , “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.” So brave. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) went further ([link removed]) , and when asked to
respond to the new Fox narrative that January 6 was “peaceful,” he said, “I think it’s bullshit.” Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor ([link removed]) recalling his personal experience that day, criticizing Speaker McCarthy, and calling on Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch to stop spreading these obvious lies that he himself clearly doesn’t even believe, which he definitely will not, but it was still worthwhile for Schumer to say it.

New damning Fox News emails ([link removed]) just ([link removed]) dropped ([link removed]) . (More on this tomorrow!)

The Republican-led Georgia House of Representatives has approved a measure to create a new state oversight board that would allow those very same Republicans to punish district attorneys ([link removed]) if, say, those district attorneys are mean to the GOP’s favorite president.


The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the sale of Spirit Airlines to JetBlue ([link removed]) , saying the deal would be bad for consumers, which is correct!


House Republicans issued another round of subpoenas Monday as part of an ongoing sham investigation ([link removed]) into what they allege is the “mistreatment” of parents who protested “woke” (read: anything Republicans don’t like) school policies.


Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is eyeing more interest rate hikes ([link removed]) , because he does not know how to do anything else I guess.


A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms for the first time ([link removed]) , a key step toward reaching commercial operation at the first new nuclear reactor built in the United States from the ground-up in decades.


An unarmed man whose murder by Russian-speaking assailants was depicted in a short video was tentatively identified today as a missing Ukrainian soldier ([link removed]) , according to the country’s chief prosecutor, who announced a criminal investigation into the killing. Ukraine’s human rights chief argued that the murder constituted a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Five women who said they were denied abortions despite grave risks to their lives or those of their fetuses sued the state of Texas ([link removed]) on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been on a corrupt warpath since he recently regained power to lead the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. But his plan to severely limit the powers of the country’s Supreme Court has prompted weeks of demonstrations, frightened many international investors and businesses headquartered there ([link removed]) , and made the threat of political violence seem increasingly likely. Now, there are even protests emerging in the Israeli military ([link removed]) , which conscripts most citizens for at least two years of service. Hundreds of soldiers in the military reserves have signed letters expressing objection to participating in nonessential duty, while others have pulled out of training missions entirely. Israel’s military leadership worries that growing discontentment within the ranks over
the government’s anti-democratic, authoritarian plans will affect the operational readiness of the nation’s armed forces. Netanyahu’s plan would increase government control over how judges are chosen, limit the Supreme Court’s ability to strike down new legislation, and make it easier for parliament to overrule the Supreme Court. Sounds bad! Even pro-Israel figures both within the country and abroad have spoken out against the plan. Daniel Gordis, a distinguished scholar at Jerusalem’s Shalem College characterized the Netanyahu government as ([link removed]) , “...a very different kind of right wing. It’s not ideological right wing or public policy right wing. This is, tragically—and I say this with tremendous sadness—something that looks a lot like a gang of thugs.” He also noted that this will be a defini
ng moment for the relationship between America and Israel.
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