Smart of Tim Scott to focus on the travesty of school closures.
Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) has begun the Republican response, immediately hitting “powerful grownups” for keeping schools closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of the future. Our public schools should have reopened months ago.”
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) not impressed with Biden’s remarks.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a key GOP swing vote, says of Biden’s speech: “I was not overly inspired.” She also said that there was too much spending, and of pushing such massive proposals: “I think it makes it very difficult for it to be truly bipartisan.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 29, 2021
Progressives who wanted to know where their “Court reform” project ranks in Biden's list of priorities should do a quick search through the transcript of the speech for that phrase and closely related ones.
After approximately 67 minutes, Biden ends by urging the country to come together.
“It’s never been a good bet to bet against America. And it still isn’t. We're the United States of America. There's not a single thing, nothing beyond our capacity. We can do whatever we set our minds to, if we do it together.”
About an hour and ten minutes of our lives that we will never get back.
Biden calls on Congress to pass a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (makes no mention of the situation at the border) as well as HR 1, the Democrats’ election bill, adding to the list of multiple bills he mentioned that have no chance of passing the Senate.
Biden calling for passage of several bills that have no chance of getting 60 votes in the Senate: the PRO act (labor union bill); $15 minimum wage hike (opposed by members of both parties); expansion of background checks on gun purchases; assault weapons ban renewal
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 29, 2021
Fox News pans to Ted Cruz struggling to stay awake.
Phil, it's worse! Biden refers to the Assault Weapons Ban, and declares, “But in the early 2000’s, that law expired and we’ve seen the daily bloodshed since.” The ban was in effect from September 1994 to September 2004.
During that time, the country witnessed the Columbine High School massacre, the Long Island Rail Road shooting, the Atlanta day-trading firms shooting… you get the idea. The country saw a long list of mass shootings that did not involve so-called “assault weapons.”
Biden is being deeply dishonest on guns. Among other things, gun violence continued to decline considerably after the “assault weapons” ban expired in 2004.