The United States president Joe Biden held in Atlanta on Tuesday emotional speech, in which he tried to promote the reform of his country’s electoral laws. He compared law-abiding Republicans to supporters of racial oppression and called on Senators in his Democratic Party to stretch Senate rules to approve his project to defend the right to vote for minorities.
On Thursday, two Democratic senators – from Arizona Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia Joe Manchin – stated that they were not prepared to scrap the so-called filibuster rule, which requires the support of a so-called super-majority, ie 60 senators. Therefore, there is no chance of passing the law.
It was particularly embarrassing for Biden that Sinema announced his position just shortly before Biden traveled from the White House to the Congress House, where the president was to persuade his party colleagues. Manchin, for his part, poured cold water on the president’s neck shortly after Biden returned to his official residence.
Biden loaded the entire presidential prestige into a bill that became a pancake.
The humiliation of the Senate alone would have been enough to ruin the day. But beyond that The U.S. Supreme Court overturned it on the same day, an order from the Biden government requiring large employers to require their employees to have either an interest rate vaccination or a negative test result.
Biden published opinion, in which he expressed his disappointment with the Supreme Court. In court, the decision was made by conservative votes. Mandatory vaccination and testing has been one of the cornerstones of Biden’s corona policy.
Thursday events underlined that the stars are in a nasty position from the perspective of the Biden administration. In the Senate, Democrats have only a 51-50 majority, which is generally not enough to legislate. The Supreme Court, on the other hand, has six conservative and three liberal judges, which is a permanent problem for Biden.
Biden promised about a year ago when he came to power that he would free the United States from the scourge of the corona pandemic, but it has failed at all. With the reform of the election laws, Biden wanted to go Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King in the footsteps, but the boots of the great men of history proved too big.
The ambitious but already drastically watered down project called Build Back Better is also going badly. This is a social and climate package of around EUR 1 500 billion, which should lead to a new, more equal and greener economy.
Also standing in the way of this project is Senator Joe Manchin of the state of West Virginia, known for his coal mines. He has halved the price tag of a large package of laws on half of the original proposal, but now seems to have lost interest in supporting the project in any form.
Biden even had a new one Franklin D. Rooseveltia, which lifted the United States from the recession of the 1930s with its social reforms and led the country during World War II. The parable now seems a hazy wishful thinking.
Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki tried to convince on Thursday the media that the president is not going any fun at all. About 200 million Americans have been vaccinated against the corona during Biden’s term and he has managed to “rebuild alliances” and thus strengthen U.S. foreign policy, Psaki said. About € 1 trillion in infrastructure legislation can be added to the list.
The outside world, and the West in particular, are much more positive about Biden than To Donald Trump, but in the field of foreign policy so far, the most visible event has been the chaotic departure of the United States from Afghanistan.
This week, the United States has been able to keep the members of the military alliance NATO united in the face of the threat posed by Russia. However, it is completely unclear whether the threat to Russia has diminished or increased as a result of negotiations across Europe.
To Biden the honeymoon associated with the eyes of Americans is no longer a distant memory. At present, just over 40 percent of Americans now support the president’s actions. Its lower support has not been seen with the president who served for a year, except during Trump’s time, says an analyst analyzing the polls. Fivethirtyeight.com website.
The worse things go for Biden, the more tempting members of his own Democratic Congress will be tempted or forced to smell the president. Politicians on the left in the party in particular have to explain to their voters why the big promises of better times have not been delivered.
In the interim elections ten months from now, each member of Congress will fight for his or her own political legacy. And then staring at the calendar for the next presidential election.
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