Biden attempts to drum up support for a lopsided border package plus money for Ukraine and Israel.
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks
The White House Briefing Room posts the full text of Remarks by President Biden at the National Prayer Breakfast. Here are a few snips.
It’s fitting today marks the first time the National Prayer Breakfast is being held here in Statuar- —
Statutory[Statuary] Hall.This is where the House of Representatives met for 50 years leading up to the Civil War.It’s where a congressman from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, sat at desk number 191 before becoming the president who served our Union and saved it.
History remembers President Lincoln’s first inaugural address counseling us to heed, quote, “the better angels of our nature.” “The better angels of our nature.”
We do well to remember what he said just a few moments before he concluded the same address. At a moment of deep division in our nation, President Lincoln said, “We are not enemies.” He said, “We are not enemies, but friends.” “We must not be enemies,” he went on to say.
Biden shook hands with House speaker Mike Johnson. Biden’s speech was trying to drum up support for more aid for Ukraine and Israel as well as a very lopsided package, still not announced, to deal with the border.
That deal was formulated at secret meetings and most likely is dead on arrival in the House, unless Johnson puts it up for vote letting Democrats and a handful of Republicans pass it.
The speech was slammed on Twitter.
The tears were shed during the national anthem, not during his speech pleading with Republicans.
Image courtesy of the Daily Mail.
Mitch McConnell Tries Bait and Switch
The Hill reports Mitch McConnell Tried To Bait-And-Switch Americans On Behalf of Ukraine And Biden. It’s Not Trump’s Fault He Failed.
A confounding news story broke Wednesday night purporting that Mitch McConnell hit a dead end on negotiating legislation to help secure the southern border and, sadly, Donald Trump was the reason for the failure.
If that makes absolutely zero sense, don’t be alarmed. You’re not having a stroke. That’s the ridiculous narrative pushed in earnest by the national media at the very obvious behest of McConnell’s team.
What actually happened is this: Without ever publicly revealing the details of a supposedly gangbusters border security bill, Senate Republican leadership told their colleagues in both houses of Congress that they definitely needed to get on board, that such a lucky star only shows itself once in a lifetime and that the window to pounce was never or now.
To great relief, some Republicans were smart enough to pass on that golden opportunity.
You mean we get the absolute pleasure of signing onto a bill we’ve never seen and which our constituents know nothing about on the biggest crisis our country has faced in more than 20 years? Tell me more!
Biden’s Trojan Horse Immigration Deal Would Allow Another 1.8 Million Migrants
We still do not have all the details of secret compromise negotiations. But what we do know was a cave-in by Republicans at least as it stands now.
For discussion, please see Biden’s Trojan Horse Immigration Deal Would Allow Another 1.8 Million Migrants
From the proposal leak as we understand things now, McConnel is so desperate for money for Ukraine and Israel, that he is willing to sell the farm on the border.
Oh yes you are. And so are all the fleabags pouring in. 100%
Of course “We Are Not Enemies.”
“We” are both partners in robbing and enslaving Americans, as well as others. That’s, after all, all “we” do. With the rest being nothing but silly bread and circuses with which to distract the gullible indoctrinati who are stupid enough to take nominal side for any of “us.”
Uniparty owned by AIPAC.
Frankly, who takes Biden seriously now? He doesn’t set policy nor initiate actions. Those are done by his advisors and the bureaucracy.
Let’s pray to Jesus at breakfast and then send some more bombs overseas to kill babies, and launder some money, HALLELUJAH!!!
Lmao. The sad truth.
“Abraham Lincoln, sat at desk number 191 before becoming the president who served our Union and saved it.”
Biden apparently didn’t mention the over 600,000 dead.
What were those who didn’t preserve the British union in the 1770’s called? American patriots. Interesting that after leading a rebellion, George Washington then lead a militia against the Whisky Rebellion.
We live in a world of double standards.
Correction: We live in a world in which “History is written by the victors”.
That’s why rebellion by the US in 1776 was good and rebellion by the south in the 1860s was bad.
Canada was peopled by those who remained loyal to the Crown. They did not see the Rebellion as was good.
Neither did Great Britain see it as good either. That’s why there were a lot of clashes between American and Great Britain/Canada (see: war of 1812).
Ultimately they changed their minds to accept it as ‘good’ once they needed American help (say around WWI).
The US itself has changed its mind on so many countries (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan etc) during my lifetime its hard to keep track of which ones we approve of and which ones we don’t.
“That’s the ridiculous narrative pushed in earnest by the national media at the very obvious behest of McConnell’s team.”
The mainstream media is spreading mis/disinformation. When does NewsGuard expose the mainstream media for doing this? Never i presume. The purpose of NewsGuard is to protect official false narratives. Teachers unions are now aligned with NewsGuard, to propagandize to school children for indoctrination purposes.
Silly Biden. If you don’t kiss the giant orange posterior, you’re the enemy. Vermin, specifically.
Doesn’t that make you want to kiss the giant orange posterior?
Who invites Satan to a prayer breakfast?
I am all for religious freedom but I do draw the line at Satan.
Who invites Satan to a Prayer breakfast?
Biden can start the road to political reconciliation by stopping all judicial political persecution, including January 6, parents objecting to the sexualization of their children, and President Trump. Otherwise he can go fu@% himself. FJB!
A few weeks ago i saw time stamped J6 surveillance video which indicated that officers David Lazarus and Harry Dunn perjured themselves in the DOJ effort to convict 4 members of the Oath Keepers.
Let Biden support Ukraine and Israel with the kickbacks and bribes he’s collected through his career.
The big guy doesn’t like sharing. But he good at spendo g other people’s money.
Few people I would turn my back to, and not feel at all safe. Biden Inc. is certainly at the very top of that list.
Iran is spread too thin. US is the ME main valve that stops a bloodshed between Egypt,
Turkey, Israel, Iran and the Saudis. These five mini ME superpowers are constantly threatening each other and the world. Iran wants to kick us out from the ME and take over. The US and her friends destroyed Iranian assets in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the west bank and in Gaza. Putin’s supply line became constricted. Biden is a good friend of Israel. Bibi might pay him back. Israel might stop the war 3/4 months before the Nov election and settle with Lebanon, after a few minor border corrections influenced by Stephane Sejourne France’s foreign minister contagious smiles. Michelle O’neal, Sinn Fein, might unite Ireland after 103 years of separation.
Five ‘mini super powers’. Four out of five are Muslim states. The fifth is not.
It was created by AngloAnerican powers (not by God). Its presence is the primary source of conflict in the region and throughout the world.
It should have been created elsewhere (regardless of a book of myths from the ancient world).
It has been problematic since day one.
Book of myths? So I guess you’re scientific enough to believe that:
Nothing created everything
Chaos created order
NonLife created life
When you grow up, you will come to realize that you can make a point without showing your ignorance
Regardless of your beliefs in ancient supernatural explanations for the essential unknowable mystery of existence, it can easily be stated that plunking down a Jewish homeland in the midst of billions of Muslims was not a great idea.
The results have been 100% predictable.
Getting past your scientific and logical prowess on origins and inability to make a point without embarrassing yourself … assuming putting Israel back into their ancestral land was a horrible thing … how is it anywhere near as horrible as displacing the indigenous peoples here? Are you ready to give up your house and property?
Your last sentence actually points to the source of the conflict. A bunch of European Jews migrated to Israel, were treated favorably by the British overlords, smuggled in guns and weapons, bombed the King David hotel driving out the British and then murdered and drove the Palestinians from their land. That is the history. Israel was born of terrorism and it shall die by terrorism.
The conquest of indigenous people here in the Americas occurred in centuries past.
It isn’t a current event.
I suppose that, if the Internet had been available during the 19th century, during the Indian wars, maybe there would have been some objection by outside observers.
(The plains Indians were ferocious horse warriors who terrified the white settlers. Although eventually just outnumbered, they weren’t just civilians being bombed to oblivion.)
That was a different time, a different world.
We were born in the aftermath.
We’ve lived our lives in the circumstances that had been created before us.
What’s happening in the Middle East isn’t a matter of undoing the past. It’s a mass murder occurring before our eyes.
Not sure how old you are … but I … and the vast majority of Israel and Palestine were not alive when the decision was made.
The “plains Indians were ferocious horse warriors who” became such by riding horses brought here by the Europeans. There needs to be a “statute of limitations” stating that you can’t bitch about anything that happened before you were born. Otherwise, we need to give Europe back to the Neanderthals.
If Jews should be able to displace Arabs because it’s they’re “ancestral homeland” (despite most of them being of European origin), shouldn’t Jews be evicted from their homes in the USA, Canada, and Latin America and those homes be given to the Native peoples?
Neil, you are the man! I coul5n have said it better.
You have Hamas envy, Alex.
Better Hamas envy than penis envy!
Are the stories of Greek gods, Roman gods, Norse gods more mythological than the Hebrew god? If the Hebrew god is the real one, then he should be far more powerful than my tax dollars. It’s amazing that Jews and Christians alike have more faith in my tax dollars than they do in their own god to protect Israel. I guess it’s why they call it “the Almighty Dollar.”
Well said Neil M!
Winston Churchill – WWI, WWII, WWIII. As Luongo says, Brits still f-ing around with more places in the world than the Romans ever did.
Muslims came into the world in the 7th Century only. Before there them there were Jews in Israel. Throughout the Middle East there were many other peoples and then the Arabs colonized them. They are the colonizers and not the Jews.
Did the Arabs colonize the peoples there or simply covert them to Muslims over time after conquering them as the Christian priests did with Christianity in the new world?
Technically the Jews colonized too because they aren’t the original inhabitants of the Middle East either (the Egyptians where there long before the Jews were).
First answer, for most it was .. convert or die. There was often a period of time where they could just pay exhorbitant taxes and live as a 3rd class citizen … but eventually it was convert or die. Bottom line, how far back do we go? Do we return the US to the indigenous peoples? If so, which ones? The ones we pushed off the land? Or the ones pushed off the land by the ones we pushed off the land? Or the ones who got pushed off before them? At some point, it is what it is.
In the 1700’s/1800’s France and GB colonial empires competed with each other to extract commodities from Asia and Africa, to spread Christianity and to dominate the world. When president Wilson was a child he heard : “Lincoln was elected. The war will start. He will invade the south”. The southern people were not fooled by Lincoln pacifying words. Under the banner of black’s freedom Lincoln killed 700K Americans, destroyed the richest place on earth, raped and abducted women. James Polk is number #2. Lincoln to the back of the line.
Oh my God! I actually agree with you on something. Lincoln was a horrible President. But FDR is a contender for the back of the line.
A real take On Lincoln-
link to m.youtube.com
Or this one
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And then the space gods came, and anointed all the righteous slaveowners with giant hats with pheasant feathers. And they feasted on the lambs, and the ocelots, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats.
Yea brother, preacheth the gospel of crazy!
WHY is he still sending money to Zelensky and his robber baron pals for the now obvious lost cause of Ukraine?
Inquiring minds want to know.
You didnt get the memo? Ukraine is now the 50th state. Hawaii is on its own.
Republicans are too stupid to know they are Biden’s enemies. Do they think he will stop with trying to jail Donald Trump or let Robert Kennedy Jr be assassinated/use up a lot of campaign funds for protection by denying him Secret Service protection (and changing the rules on the New Hampshire primary)
Add Dag Hammarskjold before JFK.
Biden is no Lincoln. At the end of his term, with dark storm clouds gathering, Biden is more like James Buchanon. “We aren’t enemies” is hardly an encouraging theme. Lincoln understood the gravity of his times and the national interest. Unlike Lincoln, Biden chooses to spend what little political capital he has left on no-win conflicts in Ukraine, Israel, Syria, and probably soon Iran. Lincoln’s cabinet had the best and the brightest, not the woke mediocrities surrounding Biden. Biden has no strategy, no end game, just “more money, please” to for more risky, pointless and divisive escalation. But genocide Joe is a nice guy. Right.
He’s more like Buchanan’s Secretary of War John Floyd
They are not enemies. Either keep printing and bombing or the entire system collapses. And the illegal aliens. Gotta have them for tax revenue. Some of them are a drag but most of them do work and pay sales tax. If any of these things stop the US as we know it is a goner.
Every politician needs an enemy. Since the fall of the Soviet Union the enemies come from within. Divided we fall.
For me I think Biden probably knows he cant understand this new “Republican party.” Ive had nothing but thoughts and feelings in the Democratic way since junior high, and I cant understand how today’s Repubs think they way that they do. But at least I could tolerate it and occasionally see their point. But this this .. this thing the Repub party has turned into, cause of one .. is there a name for him? … 75 million aggrieved people who believe nothing anyone in their right minds would believe (mom included) . I would think Biden is as confused and frustrated as I am. Its one thing to not agree with a Republican. Its another to take 75 million people, all of whom seem to have lost their minds, lost their jobs, lost their houses, ran up their credit cards, never got pensions and are 110% desperate … and they see this charlatan, this used car salesman, as the one who will save them. This has got to be as parallel as it gets with 1930s Germany.
So you’re in the corner of the man who has called half the country deplorable (and far worse) suddenly calling for unity. You’re cool with the man who intentionally left the border open and sued Texas when they tried to close their part of it … and now he’s saying the border catastrophe is not his part? I’m not a Trump person … I’d have far preferred to have a grown up like DeSantis or Vivek … but 4 more years of playing weekend at Bernie’s with a cognitively addled man and not knowing who is really making the decisions … is not attractive.
At least we have Trump, who has never ever called any of his fellow Americans enemies of the people.
Trump is an impetuous child who was not as cognitively addled as Biden and didn’t get confused and think that after calling them all names, he could then call for unity. Trump was vitriolic just as Biden is … he just hadn’t lost all his marbles yet
The political professional say people vote for something, not against something. I dont like voting for Biden, but there is no way on this Earth Ill ever vote for the Great Pumpkin again. Bidens no ray of sunshine, and if he dies in the next year I cant imagine whats next, but I wont vote for a dictator, even for a day.
The Great Pumpkin, Lucy spotting the football, Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree – life lessons.
I don’t know how anyone could vote for either. One locked down the country and ran up the debt and the other is sponsoring a genocide and ran up the debt. The gerontocracy has not served our country well. We need younger leaders who will actually be alive in 10 years and who care about the future.
Dictator? That wasn’t Trump standing in front of a monument lighted in red with Marines at his back.
So I won’t be voting for a dictator wanna-be either.
Well, look, it’s a nice sentiment, recall Biden has spent 3000 years in the Senate and a lot of republican senators have had no problem saying he’s a decent guy, which I’m sure they don’t say about every democrat, or other republicans for that matter. So, Biden is probably OK with getting along with people. Unlike Hilary (need I provide examples?) or Obama, who used his two years in the Senate as nothing more than a stepping stone to the nomination, which he was able to do, since, as Uncle Joe said, he was clean cut and articulate or words to that effect. Obama called Republicans ‘the enemy’ in meetings where it was bound to be made public. (If he’d been a white Republican can you imagine what the press would have done?) I’m not a great fan of Uncle Joe but I have to give him credit for at least talking nice….. There are plenty of other things to criticize him about.
Sponsoring a genocide is not something a nice guy does.
“President Dotard” has a nice ring to it.
Massive stupids combined with massive Dementia puts his dumb ass into a box.
When he finally realizes that he has/is totally lost, THEN he wants to negotiate.
I sense that McConnel would sell his mother if it would be politically advantageous.
I got excited when I skimmed the words ‘dead’ and ‘Mitch McConnell’ close together.
We are not only enemies but mortal enemies
When you make it your policy to impoverish and inevitably murder people, starting with the poorest, by making energy so expensive they must choose between heat and food, well you are my mortal enemy.
Winston Churchill mentioned Rommel as ‘a great general’ in a 1941 speech (which he was) and not surprisingly got a lot of abuse for it, which probably he deserved since there were a lot of widows and orphans who would have preferred Rommel was not so good at his job. But as he said in his memoirs “When you have to kill a man it does no harm to be polite about it”. Well, OK. I get the impression he felt bad about what he said, though. Recall that in his time in Parliament,1900-1960, there were differences that would have resulted in brawls on the Senate floor (such things have happened more than once). However, the Brits were able, after Parliament adjourned at midnight, to go out and get sloshed with each other and a lot became decent friends despite serious political differences, sort of like Scalia and RGB. I don’t think if I was Antonio I’d have taught her to shoot a shotgun (temptation, ya know, about that last Supreme Court majority opinion, ya know, and more than one person has been turned into hamburger by ‘accident’ in a duck blind, but never mind. I’ve have taught her to drink shots, myself. Anyway, the civility the Brits had enabled things to get done for the greater good. Which is not a lesson the half wits in Congress have learned. The other side might be stupid and sailing close to the edge of the ethics winds, but generally are speaking are not evil. There are exceptions….
Politics is the art of the possible. Sure, a lot of people have suffered and I’m sure some have died because of the price of energy (or mandatory vaxxes, etc.). But did Obama get anything accomplished by semi-publically calling Republicans ‘the enemy’? Nothing comes to mind. Of course, that might not have been the only reason, but it couldn’t have done any good.
Any fool can piss people off, it’s a true statesman who can give them the shaft and make them feel like he’s doing them a favor.
If I came across as pendantic or knowing it all in my comment please accept my apologies. You write stuff, and reread it, and by the time you get done editing the window has expired….. I guess that’s one of the basic rules of life, sort of like death and taxes, and no free lunch. You say something dumb, or easy to take the wrong way, and it outlasts the pyramids.
Oh get down off that fake horse, you’d happily let those people starve… especially if they were the wrong color.