increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
they all lie in committee hearing meetings. they all lie for a man who has said, and he can t lie his way out of this because he wrote it, he wants to terminate the constitution of the united states. and this republican party that was so shocked and stunned and deeply saddened about bill clinton, they are going to nominate him. he is going to run for president, and they re all going to get behind him again. but, joe, what s so funny about that almost, if you know the destruction of democratic norms, if there is anything humorous about that at all, is that most of those republicans do not want donald trump back. yet, they are such wimps that they re going to just go along with it. he ll probably end up in exactly the same point. at least in the 2016 primary, you would have republican opposition candidates going up against donald trump and trying
what s going on in trump world. it strikes me. i think we give too much credit to democrats if we say only republicans lack strength of action. democrats, when they saw obamacare was going to hurt them, a lot decided not to run or left congress. you saw a lot of people say, they took the evan bayh route and too much partisanship, i m done. you re not seeing that on the republican side. once you look at the names of the republicans part of communicating to nixon this is over or the names of the republicans who were serious about digging into this, howard baker, you look at that list, just tell me, take your time. who s the howard baker in the republican senate right now? i can t find him because the people of the media our profession gives laurels to, lindsey grahams and john mccains still 100% back the president and use their time. lindsey graham uses a lot of his team in committee hearing