President Joe Biden will declare in tonight’s State of the Union address that partisan fighting is bad and that there is no obstacle to the Republican Party working with his White House.
The Issue: President Biden’s statement that inflation was “already there” when he took office. It’s been more than two years since President Biden was...
When President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, one of his Cabinet officials will be absent. As yet unnamed, that official will be sequestered away at the Mount Weather complex in Virginia as the "designated survivor." If the worst happens — it probably won't — that person will be sworn in as president. Select members of Congress from each party will also be absent, their contingency role being to provide new congressional leadership.
By now, almost everyone knows it: Vice President Kamala Harris is a horrible politician, would be an embarrassing presidential nominee, and would not be a good president.
As President Joe Biden prepares to project the strength of his administration during the State of the Union address, the blood is in the water for any Democrats who want to jump into the candidate pool for 2024.
PRESIDENT NOBODY WANTS TO RUN PREPARES REELECTION BID. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday night is widely expected to double as a kickoff to his 2024 reelection campaign. It's being called a "soft launch" because Biden will not actually announce his candidacy but will instead make it unmistakably clear that he is running.
Last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked the Republican Party for removing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for her blatantly antisemitic public comments. But before attacking Republicans on this matter, Jeffries needs to own up to his past support for a notorious antisemite and why he lied about this past support when he was a newly elected member of Congress.
President Joe Biden's national security team is increasingly uneasy with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The two have little in common. Biden and his top aides are overwhelmingly irreligious. Modi, though, is a devout Hindu. Biden considers himself an orator; Modi is one. And, while Biden sees himself as an effete intellectual, Modi is a populist. Perhaps this is the root of the problem. Biden and his progressive base continue to blame Modi for the 2002 Gujarat riots in which more than 1,000 mostly Muslim Indians perished.
Marijuana is not the harmless drug many of its advocates would have you believe, as we have pointed out. Fortunately, a growing number of lawmakers, including those who supported legalization in the past, are coming to the same conclusion based on the available science.
