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After Biden’s romp to the nomination, it was the Republicans’ turn to underestimate their rival. Trump mocked Biden as “Sleepy Joe” who was locked in his basement, cognitively impaired, protected by staff and just too old to become president. Republicans continue to echo Trump’s caricature. An April NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found Republicans frequently use the words “has cognitive issues”; “old and weak”; and “being handled” to describe President Biden
These Republican descriptors underestimate just how strong Biden is with all voters. For starters, Biden beat an incumbent, becoming only the third person to oust an elected president since the end of World War II. (Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said fully vaccinated people need not wear masks outside if alone or not in the company of strangers.
Announcing the change at the White House, Biden wore a mask as he walked to the microphone. Asked what message that might send as his administration seeks to overcome widespread resistance to vaccines and public health guidelines, the president said Americans should watch him “take it off and not put it back on until I get inside”.
He wore a mask for parts of outdoor appearances in the week that followed.
On Sunday, Anita Dunn told CNN’s State of the Union: “I myself found that I was still wearing my mask outdoors this week, because it has become such a matter of habit. I think the president takes the CDC guidelines very seriously. And he’s always taken his role as sending a signal to follow the science very seriously as well.
Vice President Harris, will remind listeners that in a span of 100 days, the U.S. distribution and administration of vaccines saved lives, helped the elderly hug their loved ones again, put millions of students in classrooms along with help from governors and mayors, and made it possible for families to recover some financial equilibrium with direct payments from Uncle Sam.
Next up on the president’s to-do list: enactment of a $2.3 trillion infrastructure and green jobs plan in the next few months, and progress this year on a separate proposal that Biden calls the American Families Plan.
The American Families’ Plan would cost about $1.5 trillion, offset by half a dozen proposed tax hikes on high-income Americans and investors, according to early reports and White House information.
Is this expected?: Well, as of last week, organizers were still trying to host the festival.
From the announcement: “Although here in the United States we may be feeling the weight lifting and the light at the end of the tunnel brightening, we are still in the pandemic, and the uncertainties that need to be resolved are impossible to resolve in the time we have. We have decided to set our sights on Black Rock City 2022.”
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Peter Sullivan, “The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were 94 percent effective in preventing hospitalization for COVID-19 among people age 65 and older in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study released Wednesday.” https://bit.ly/2PtBET0
ANALYSIS: No One Cares About Obama Anymore
AOC praises Biden s impressive progressive achievements as lib pundits anoint him the next FDR and Obama s legacy withers to dust Getty Andrew Stiles • April 26, 2021 5:35 pm
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No one cares about former president Barack Obama anymore, least of all the Democratic Party s most fashionable influencers. It s almost as if his presidency never happened.
Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said President Joe Biden s first 100 days in office have been impressive and exceeded the expectations of trendy young progressives such as herself. Historians, journalists, and other liberals have anointed Biden the next FDR or LBJ a once-in-a-generation transformative leader.