Biden’s talking about women again, without defining who “women” are.
You know, if you mess up and accidentally mention “Moscow,” while listing foreign capitals, quickly adding, “eh, maybe even Moscow” is a good recovery.
Capping prescription drug prices, that’s great, price ceilings always work and never ever have any unintended consequences.
In case you’ve noticed that Biden sounds more energized than usual, this is surely by design: A simple CTRL F on the Prepared Remarks reveals his speechwriting staff built no fewer than 80 exclamation marks (!!) into his address tonight.
Elaine Benes would be jealous
Biden indicts “trickle-down economics” because it did little to help his family when he was growing up. But Biden grew up in the 1950s and early 60s, when the top marginal tax rates exceeded 80 percent. Which is to say that Joe Biden did not, in fact, grow up during a period typified by “trickle-down economics.”
A side effect of Biden arriving late, taking a long time to get down the aisle, shaking hands, and delivering a long speech with a lot of applause breaks is that Alabama senator Katie Britt won’t give the Republican response until well past 11 p.m. Eastern. The way Biden is going so far, she’ll be giving the GOP response closer to midnight.
Since Biden walked the picket line with the UAW, car companies have continued to lay off workers. The UAW is hardly a working-class union. 100,000 of its 380,000 active members work in higher education, and the University of California system has roughly as many UAW members as General Motors.
Biden’s rants against “trickle down economics” have not changed a whit since he was singing this tune throughout the Reagan years, railing against growth and prosperity.
When the crowd chants “FOUR MORE YEARS” it sounds like a medieval mob bringing you a sentence of pitiless doom.
The unionization rate in the United States has been declining for roughly 60 years. It was a record low last year. Six percent in the private sector. Half of all union members in the U.S. work for government.