then. I felt the same way about the IWR as I did about the entire Reagan Presidency...."Gaaah, this is such utter BULLSHIT, this is NOT going to end well, these assclowns do not know what they are in for....they are stupid, stupid, STUPID and wrong as all get-out!!!!" .... but at the end of the day, my POV didn't hold sway. A lot of people who freaked out at the dead in New York City (and the freak-out reverberated for over a decade, even NOW you can shut people up by saying "NAHN WUN WUN" in some quarters) reacted viscerally and wanted to go kill people and they didn't really care who.
Politicians who survive know how to pick their battles. Biden's state is very interconnected with the financial industry (the whole credit card game) and the financial industry, whose beating heart is Wall Street in NYC, took the big Nahn Wun Wun hit. He would have been committing suicide if he'd gone any other way.
Same deal with the Thomas confirmation. I hate that "Bros before Hos" expression--I find it offensive and dismissive and denigrating--but that was the calculus he made. I took one listen to Ms. Hill and I flat-out KNEW she was telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. To this day I admire the HELL out of that woman for walking into the lion's den like she did.
I can really dislike the positions that someone takes on this issue or that, and still understand the political calculations they made, why they made them, and the arc of their career as to good calls and bad ones. I can't turn my back on Biden because he fucked up here and there, but I do agree that he's probably not the best fit for the POTUS gig. Not with his personal family issues of late, or his health history....and the fact that he can at times be a lightning rod doesn't help, either.
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