I love it!!!

You did? Well, I meant it, too. This ain't Joe's first rodeo, am I right?

President Biden is saying exactly what he needs to be saying... the same thing the Obama/Biden administration sought and the same thing that he's always stood for. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Joe is the "Senate Whisperer." I said it before, and I'll say it again: There is more than one way to skin a cat. :)

So, to recap: Joe isn't naive; he's playing good cop/bad cop, and he's both of them. To put it another way, and since it's that time of year: President Biden is both the coach and the referee. :)

Could you manage an entire column on pie? Wouldn't that just be decisive?

Why, I would wager the man could manage an entire treatise on pie that would be very decisive and as easy as pie! He's a cutie pie, no matter how you slice it, and doesn't mince words when it comes to pie.

Further pushing the fruit pie camp away from the cream pie followers? After all we know the cream pie cultists are really snakes from another universe sent here to poison the good fruit pie citizens. I fear for the comity of this body if you were to delve into the great pie divide.

Oh... "divisive"!? Well, that's very different. Nevermind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZQKILDM_dY&list=RDgRHsXJxxqrg&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRHsXJxxqrg

WOW! You really know how to make us feel bad!! We likely ain't gettin' ANY of those things, right?

Unity means everybody doing the right thing at the same time.

I would think if the numbers come out and can be explained: that is the tax increase is similar to the workers share of employer based health plans, that can be sold.

I think that is a very, very important point that can be applied to everything the Biden administration does over the course of eight years.

What Biden is trying to do - across the board - can be sold because it makes so much sense, economically and from a moral standpoint. In other words, it is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

But, this stuff doesn't sell itself. And, there's the rub.

I remain cautiously hopeful that this administration understands the critical importance of effective communication with the American people, as a whole, and that they understand that time is of the essence.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Will your update include a time-sensitive edit function?

Or, will we - I - just have become more disciplined and patient in our - my - use of the current preview function. Which, really doesn't need improving, come to think of it ... :)

This is what needs to happen as we deal with a limited number of vaccines right now. The only purpose of vaccinations right now is to reduce the number of deaths.

While all of that is going on, the rest of us need to step up our individual efforts to break the chains of transmission through proven public health measures before more and increasingly deadly mutations occur as a result of allowing the virus to trasmit at will, so to speak.

This is what needs to happen as we deal with a limited number of vaccines right now. The only purpose of vaccinations right now is to reduce the number of deaths.

While all of that is going on, the rest of us need to step up our individual efforts to break the chains of transmission through proven public health measures before a deadly mutation occurs.

I love it!!!

Best comment of the year!

i was thinking the same thing. it's time for a guest column on pie!

It seems to me like the goals of the two Parties are vastly different: Biden is playing for "unity," while the GOP enablers are praying for "immunity." Biden isn't as naive as he's being portrayed. I said it before, and I'll say it again: Uncle Joe is playing a game of good cop/bad cop, and he's both of the officers. :)

I doubt it. My biggest goal is to get the site readable on people's phones and other non-desktop items...

And, of course, to (hopefully) add a real, working preview for the comments...

It's going to take a lot of work, though. I'm going to try to keep the same look and feel of the site, but underneath it's a total teardown job, I'm going to start from scratch... so it might take awhile...

[Anybody know a good development system (free, preferably) for a Mac running only 10.13.6? Let me know...]

-CW

I wrote about filibuster stuff earlier in the week, and my guess is if that battle comes, it'll come at least a month or two down the road... plenty of time to talk about it later, in other words...

-CW

Good luck with the project. Hope I won't need an upgrade when it's all said and done. :)

And then you managed to write an extended appraisal of Biden's upcoming challenges with Congress without ever using the word 'filibuster'.

I frankly didn't think that was possible at this point in the political media frolic.

OK, I've been busy this past week or so, sorry. But there is good news -- I've been busy setting up and configuring a new computer (well, newer than what I had, it's still a hand-me-down). I've got most of the migration complete, will likely finish this weekend.

This is the first step, folks. I still need to get web development software up on it, and then I'll finally be ready to tackle upgrading this site. Again, this is going to be a long and slow process (the current site will stay as it is until the new one is ready to go online, don't worry...), but at least I'm on the right path now.

Anyway, just wanted everyone to know why I've been so scarce here...

-CW

Pardon me nit picking your spelling but that headline should read Biden's First "WEAK", wouldn't you agree??

Quantum be upon you. The Singularity is near. Unity.