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"Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of every significant foreign policy issue over the last 40 years". Robert Gates (Secretary of Defense Under Obama & Bush)
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up." (Barrack Obama, former President of the United States.)
We have seen something quite amazing in recent weeks, Congress is getting fed up with Biden's refusal to check Putin's aims in Ukraine. Normally Congress runs from taking heat for supporting Presidential foreign policy initiatives. More often than not, they are in opposition to military aid to victims of communist or even fascist aggression, or any action that might have an economic impact on their voters.
But just as Putin has galvanized and united NATO, Biden has galvanized and united a bi-partisan majority are unhappy with him acting as Putin's intimidated puppy.
"It started with calls for tougher sanctions, then escalated to an appeal for a larger military and humanitarian assistance package. Members of both parties then clamored for a U.S. ban on Russian oil, which the White House saw as politically risky given the effect on gas prices at home. And they insisted that the U.S. end permanent normal trade relations with Russia.
The tactics have worked. And this week, lawmakers will be at it again — this time nudging the Biden administration to go further than it wants in facilitating the transfer of fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine."
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Still, there’s growing pressure on Capitol Hill to solidify a deal.
“It's complicated, but I think the consensus … is that we want to get those planes to Poland,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Friday in Philadelphia.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just returned from the Polish border, where he was left with the impression that an agreement on the planes was already done. Now he says he’s “looking at alternative ways.”
“Either the Poles change their mind and we’ll do it as initially planned,” Meeks said. “Or we'll give to them other resources.”
As the debate evolves, the conditions on the ground continue to worsen in Ukraine, where hundreds of civilians have been killed and almost 3 million people have fled to neighboring countries. The atrocities have piled pressure on lawmakers to heighten efforts to defend the outgunned Ukrainians from Putin’s advances, which have increasingly targeted civilian areas.
Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the majority whip, was among the many Democrats who visited Selma, Ala., this month to remember a bloody voting rights march there in 1965. He said talk of the violence in Ukraine was everywhere.
“I was absolutely floored when person after person came to me saying, ‘We're all for voting rights, but if you don't do something to help end this war there's going to be nothing to vote for,’ ” Clyburn said. “This is how deep this goes.”
thehill.com
Biden has created his own redline, one that did not exist. For weeks the public and Congress has taken his promises of "no boots on the ground" as an implict commitment to supply Ukraine with the tools of war, as long as we don't have to participate in the war as a belligerent.
What no one knew, is that Biden secretly wrote off most major weapons systems...if it can't be carried by a single man, its "offensive weapon" or "provacative" or "escalation".
In other words, Biden is made of the wrong stuff...as so many had feared.
Even democrats realize that the potential voter backlash from not supporting Ukraine will be even worse if Ukraine is lost or a charnel house of death in late summer.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up." (Barrack Obama, former President of the United States.)
We have seen something quite amazing in recent weeks, Congress is getting fed up with Biden's refusal to check Putin's aims in Ukraine. Normally Congress runs from taking heat for supporting Presidential foreign policy initiatives. More often than not, they are in opposition to military aid to victims of communist or even fascist aggression, or any action that might have an economic impact on their voters.
But just as Putin has galvanized and united NATO, Biden has galvanized and united a bi-partisan majority are unhappy with him acting as Putin's intimidated puppy.
"It started with calls for tougher sanctions, then escalated to an appeal for a larger military and humanitarian assistance package. Members of both parties then clamored for a U.S. ban on Russian oil, which the White House saw as politically risky given the effect on gas prices at home. And they insisted that the U.S. end permanent normal trade relations with Russia.
The tactics have worked. And this week, lawmakers will be at it again — this time nudging the Biden administration to go further than it wants in facilitating the transfer of fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine."
AND
Still, there’s growing pressure on Capitol Hill to solidify a deal.
“It's complicated, but I think the consensus … is that we want to get those planes to Poland,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Friday in Philadelphia.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just returned from the Polish border, where he was left with the impression that an agreement on the planes was already done. Now he says he’s “looking at alternative ways.”
“Either the Poles change their mind and we’ll do it as initially planned,” Meeks said. “Or we'll give to them other resources.”
As the debate evolves, the conditions on the ground continue to worsen in Ukraine, where hundreds of civilians have been killed and almost 3 million people have fled to neighboring countries. The atrocities have piled pressure on lawmakers to heighten efforts to defend the outgunned Ukrainians from Putin’s advances, which have increasingly targeted civilian areas.
Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the majority whip, was among the many Democrats who visited Selma, Ala., this month to remember a bloody voting rights march there in 1965. He said talk of the violence in Ukraine was everywhere.
“I was absolutely floored when person after person came to me saying, ‘We're all for voting rights, but if you don't do something to help end this war there's going to be nothing to vote for,’ ” Clyburn said. “This is how deep this goes.”
Lawmaker pressure on Biden hits its limits
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have repeatedly been steps ahead of the Biden administration in calling to escalate the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — proposals the White House ultimatel…
thehill.com
Biden has created his own redline, one that did not exist. For weeks the public and Congress has taken his promises of "no boots on the ground" as an implict commitment to supply Ukraine with the tools of war, as long as we don't have to participate in the war as a belligerent.
What no one knew, is that Biden secretly wrote off most major weapons systems...if it can't be carried by a single man, its "offensive weapon" or "provacative" or "escalation".
In other words, Biden is made of the wrong stuff...as so many had feared.
Even democrats realize that the potential voter backlash from not supporting Ukraine will be even worse if Ukraine is lost or a charnel house of death in late summer.
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