forgotten when build back better runs into the roadblock in the senate and then voting rights running to the filibuster roadblock in the senate. and there is no reporting about how joe biden, in a year, pulled every single democratic senator along into the space of being willing to change the senate rule. all except those last two. because in washington, coverage is all about what happened today that determines who the winner and the loser is. yeah, i agree. except to use your metaphor, i don t think it s the last inning. i think it s the last pitch. you know, joe biden is really only two innings into his first term as president. and everybody is saying, oh, well, he s in trouble. to winnings into the game, having pressed over to thrill yuan dollars in new legislation. appointed more judges than anybody ever in history. created more jobs in this first year than anybody ever in history. and done a lot of the damage
the center and the left. so the critique is completely unsubstantiated and out of touch. there is another problem with washington news media coverage. which is, if they were baseball reporters, the way they would cover the game is that the winner is whoever won the last inning. so, everything joe biden did in the first, second, third, fourth innings of your one is forgotten when build back better runs into the roadblock in the senate and then voting rights running to the filibuster roadblock in the senate. and there is no reporting about how joe biden, in a year, pulled every single democratic senator along into the space of being willing to change the senate rule. all except those last two. because in washington, coverage
and with that senate vote, chuck hagel came up short of a 60-vote filibuster roadblock that senate republicans demanded, delaying what could still be hagel s eventual confirmation vote by at least two weeks. four republicans, mississippi s thad cochran, susan collins, mike johannes, and lisa murkowski voted. president obama was emphatic during a google plus question and answer session. my expectation and hope is that chuck hagel, who richly deserves to get a vote on the floor of the senate, will be confirmed as our defense secretary. it s just unfortunate that this kind of politics intrudes at a time when i m still presiding over a war in afghanistan. interestingly, some republicans acknowledge yesterday that it s just a