Paul Begala…..
Why are they mad at Biden? Biden didn’t overturn Roe. In fact, he named a brilliant justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court, and he has called on the Senate to drop the filibuster to protect women’s right to choose.
Biden isn’t denying climate change. In fact, on his first day in office he rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, and he has convened 40 world leaders in a summit on how best to approach the challenges posed by climate change.
Biden didn’t kill voting rights. In fact, he traveled to Atlanta, the home of Martin Luther King Jr. and former Rep. John Lewis, to chastise Senate Republicans for standing in the way of protecting voting rights, even comparing them to infamous segregationists George Wallace and Bull Connor.
And yet, some in the Democratic Party are complaining about the President and his approach to governance. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tina Smith of Minnesota have called on Biden to declare a national emergency over the rollback of abortion rights and to set up abortion clinics on federal land — despite the legal ban on federal funding for most abortions, and the reality that such a move could put doctors and women at risk of arrest when they depart federal land within a state that has outlawed abortion….
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Similarly, instead of attacking Biden, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ran an ad in Florida attacking Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Newsom blasted the conservative governor, saying “Freedom is under attack” in Florida. “They’re banning books,” Newsom says, “making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors.” As “America the Beautiful” plays in the background, Newsom reclaims patriotism, freedom and the flag. It is masterful — and does not include a word of whining about Biden.
Attacking your political opponents instead of your party’s president? What a novel concept. I hope it catches on.
My message to my progressive friends is this: We’re all in the same boat, so stop poking holes in the boat and then complaining that Biden is getting you wet….