Biden press conference addresses procrastination, 2024 and immigration crisis

The wait for the forty-sixth president’s first press conference is over. How was he doing? USA TODAY editorial board members David Masteo, a liberal conservative, and Jill Lawrence, a center-left liberal, have some opinions on that. conference? It might never have happened, but in a forest full of blazing trees, from immigration and guns to the vote, China, Afghanistan, North Korea and stalling and his plans for 2024, President Joe Biden has managed to avoid catching fire himself. His victory over COVID-19, while perhaps justified, has been less effective to me than statements like “I am hired to solve problems”, “I am a bit of a practical man” and “I want to get things done.” In other words, I try to look boring and boring, and eventually you will notice that I take off your socks. I think we’ve heard the whole philosophy of the Biden presidency by now. It gives him a lot of flexibility in terms of the means he uses to achieve his goals, including making the Senate disruptions painful (“come and talk and happen and happen until they collapse,” as he put it) or even making some things excluded. Such as bypassing the nationwide “sick”, “un-American”, and “despicable” efforts by Republicans to restrict voting. If the course of the talk and the meltdown don’t work, “If there is complete lockdown and chaos as a result of procrastination, we will have to skip what I’m talking about.” I know the eyeliner fixer is an eye polishing tool for most Americans. But as Biden himself said, our preoccupation with him is perfectly legitimate. It is a kind of infrastructure in its absolute inability to generate excitement. But without the infrastructure, we cannot get anywhere. With procrastination, we can’t get anywhere. Both are worth our time and attention. David: For Republicans looking for a laughing slip on the ground from a confused and exhausted 78-year-old president, that press conference was a disaster. There was nothing to grab. It makes me wonder why the White House waited so long to let Biden go out on its own to speak to the press, however, the message Biden sent was a disaster for Democrats. Biden scored a victory in his efforts to tackle the Coronavirus that he deserved, but then he flirted with a series of issues that Democrats are crying out for. Reforming immigration, arms control, climate change, and voting rights will not be Biden’s next big issue, but it will turn into his “next major initiative”, rebuilding our physical and technological infrastructure. Known as politics and leadership closely as a senator and vice president for five decades, and now president, he is far from what his party pursues and what Americans want. Nobody is so hopeful that Trump’s infamous Infrastructure Week will return any more, as he has promised to announce at an event soon. Issuing legislation and sending checks is great, but we are now in the tough part of implementing the COVID policy. The country is at a tipping point, lacking herd immunity, but ready to step out of the door and return to normality. Still, managing this is a challenge that can go wrong. Gilles: You’re right about COVID, but I understand the urge to open the press conference by reminding people that “Hey, I’m the guy who sent you this $ 1,400 check.” Especially since, unlike some presidents, he did not insist that his name be put on checks. But as someone from the center-left I find myself in step these days with a number of progressive priorities, I must say that I have not been disappointed. Biden was emphatic about his determination to pass the voting bills to his party, and if he really plans to finance the infrastructure by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, well, I would call this small step toward reducing income inequality and more fiscal responsibility. It struck me as wonderful, deliberate or not, for Biden to pause in the middle of answering an immigration question and say, “I don’t know how much detail you want about immigration.” The message: He pays attention and knows the finer points. The same thing when he started an answer by calling something “an important point to understand” and then immediately added, “I know you understand it, I don’t mean to say it this way, an important point to focus on.” He was talking to Yamiche Alcindor, a Black PBS reporter who felt a lot of sadness from Donald Trump. I took his paraphrasing as a quick realization that he seemed condescending, and he didn’t mean to. I’m glad to say I was wrong when I warned in 2019 that the unpredictable, talkative Biden would not be the boring or unsuspecting candidate or the Democratic dream president. It seems that it is in the honeymoon period. This press conference, an impressive display of life-long lessons in politics and government, will not end it. David: It was a great show of something, okay. Biden’s contracts in office gave him time to go about a choppy disappearance. First step, do what seems like a bold promise – on December 8 Biden announced that “my team will see that the majority of our schools can open by the end of my first 100 days.” Step two, when it appears you cannot fulfill this promise, pretend you have not fulfilled it – on February 9, his press secretary said, we mean schools should be open “at least one day a week.” Step 3, when it turns out that schools have managed From opening up on its own even before the Biden administration could do anything serious to help, pretending you didn’t flinch as he did at Thursday’s press conference, “I also set a goal before I took office which was to get the majority of schools in K through eight fully open schools. (A) The survey shows that nearly half of the up to eight primary schools are now open full-time, five days a week. ”The man still had the political skills of a younger man. But this offer does not change the fact that it provided precious little leadership to the Democratic Party in the House and Senate. Nancy Pelosi’s forces present legislation to the Senate in a express section, including voting and immigration rights. But the Senate is backed by the fact that a stalling Republican threat could derail any efforts by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to put these House bills into law. Democrats are angry, and a growing number of them are willing to get rid of the blockage, which allows only forty senators to block legislation. Did Joe Biden offer them when they had the opportunity to pressure the Republicans to back off? Milkwast supported the stalling reforms, sticking to his position as a senator in favor of stalling. Activists will be angry, which is another reason because this press conference will be seen as a success in showing that Biden has all of his potential, but has failed to advance the Democrats’ agenda. David Masteo is the deputy editor of USA TODAY’s editorial page. Jill Lawrence is USA TODAY’s comment editor. Follow them on Twitter: DavidMastio and JillDLawrence