What did they think? They believed that a guy who has been in politics for 47 years and has been in the White House and clearly knows how the game works was suddenly going to renounce all the players he is in bed with and instantly embrace their progressive narrative? Oh, but he said he would during the nomination! Yeah, no shit. That's how you win the nomination. You need to get the extreme left on board because they make the most noise - BY FAR. Progressive group slams two of Biden's White House appointees as 'corporate-friendly insiders' Progressive Democrats on Tuesday slammed President-elect Joe Biden’s appointments of Rep. Cedric Richmond and Steve Ricchetti to White House posts, calling them “unacceptable.” Justice Democrats executive director Alexandra Rojas blasted Biden’s appointments of Richmond, D-La., as senior adviser in the White House Office of Public Engagement, and of Ricchetti as counselor to the president, claiming they were “corporate-friendly insiders.” “If Joe Biden continues making corporate-friendly appointments to his White House, he will risk quickly fracturing the hard-earned goodwill his team built with progressives to defeat Donald Trump,” Rojas said. “A Biden administration dominated by corporate-friendly insiders like Steve Ricchetti and Cedric Richmond will not help the President-elect usher in the most progressive Democratic administration in generations.” Rojas slammed Ricchetti, a longtime Biden adviser and Biden-Harris campaign chairman, saying thast, as a former pharmaceutical lobbyist, he “represented groups vociferous opposed to Medicare For All and the public manufacturing of prescription drugs.” “In this post-COVID era, Biden has a chance to make major reforms to our cruel health care system but it will require standing up to private power,” Rojas said. Rojas also hit Richmond, calling him “one of the top Democratic recipients of fossil fuel money.” “Richmond has been aggressively criticized by his own constituents for failing to act on their concerns revolving around industry regulations and the climate crisis,” Rojas said. “This move gives greater urgency for Joe Biden to create an Office of Climate Mobilization on Day One and appoint progressives with records standing up to the fossil fuel industry.” Rojas added: “Progressives make up nearly half of the Democratic Party’s seats in the House of Representatives and should receive adequate representation in the Biden administration.” The comments came after Biden on Tuesday announced nine senior staffers he will work with in the White House after he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021. The list includes some longtime Biden aides and advisers who worked with the president-elect during his decades as a senator and his eight years as vice president in the Obama administration. The group also includes some of the top members of Biden’s presidential campaign. "I am proud to announce additional members of my senior team who will help us build back better than before. America faces great challenges, and they bring diverse perspectives and a shared commitment to tackling these challenges and emerging on the other side a stronger, more united nation," Biden said in a statement. REP. CEDRIC RICHMOND TO SERVE IN BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, RESIGN FROM CONGRESS Ron Klain, who Biden named last week as his incoming White House chief of staff, highlighted that “President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris have an ambitious and urgent agenda for action. The team we have already started to assemble will enable us to meet the challenges facing our country on day one.” Announced on Tuesday are Richmond, Ricchetti, Biden-Harris campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon as deputy White House chief of staff, senior Biden campaign strategist and longtime political adviser Mike Donilon as senior adviser to the president, and Biden-Harris general counsel Dana Remus as counsel to the president. Biden-Harris deputy campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who served as chief of staff to Sen. Harris’ presidential campaign, will join as director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Biden campaign traveling chief of staff and longtime Biden aide Annie Tomasini will be director of Oval Office operations. Anthony Bernal, a deputy campaign manager and chief of staff to Jill Biden during the campaign, will serve as senior adviser to the incoming first lady. And Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon, a partner at the law firm of Winston and Strawn who served as U.S. ambassador to Uruguay and a deputy assistant secretary of state during the Obama administration, will serve as Jill Biden’s chief of staff.
Totally agree. And I'm pleased if Biden moves back to center, like the old Biden (or younger Biden). I have to admit, this was the first I had heard of "Justice Democrats". What a laugh, that title.
This is my favorite part... Who the fuck told those sandal wearing, hackey sack carrying, shitty Prius owning hairy legs that Biden was going to usher the most progressive administration ever hahaha The progressives are going to swtich to the GOP haha Biden will never say it in private but the fly on the tail of the dog should shut the fuck up.
Some of those progressives- let's just name Pocahonky and Comrade Bernie as examples- are being diplomatic and playing the game right now. But if they are not nominated or cannot get confirmed, they will be scorned and siding with the scorned Justice Democrats (a/k/a Lootercrats). As Sun Tzu said: "Keep friends close, and your enemies even closer." Pokey and Warren can create some real problems for Biden if they join his administration, but even bigger if they do not.
Think realistically....what could Warren and Sanders do.... they are stuck in the Senate because picking them for Cabinet means losing a seat. Warren and Sanders have no political clout or capital. Biden can throw them a token and make them happy but has no obligation. What are they going to do...switch to voting on the GOP side? There will be no effectrive Tea Party equivalent in the Dems because their party won and they are hanging on by a thread
Like I have been saying, radical leftists, aka progressives, are not going to be happy with business as usual, half a century in the Senate Biden. They have been lead to believe that a new era of lunatic leftism is about to unfold. Ain't gonna happen soon enough to appease them. We'll see how much power they really wield as they take to the streets this coming spring/summer. Can Biden, at this stage of his game, fight off this internal battle between mainstream Democrats who are shrinking in number, and the lunatic fringe which isn't so fringe anymore?
[QUOTE="CaptainObvious, post: 5254329, member: 53164" Can Biden, at this stage of his game, fight off this internal battle between mainstream Democrats who are shrinking in number, and the lunatic fringe which isn't so fringe anymore?[/QUOTE] All I can say is that it is about to get worse before it gets better. The progressives see Good Ole Boy Biden installing lots of pre-progressive era types so unless that is balanced out mighty quickly by putting some hard core progressives on the table they are going to continue to see that as a loss. So if they want to balance that equation or go full savage, guess whose hide they will want very soon? Yup. That's right. Good Ole Boy Nancy Pelosi from San Franshithole. They will try to install a progressive in as Speaker. Yet the members are already telling Pelosi to not even mention progressive bullshiite such as socialism and defund the police - so how will it help to install a progressive speaker? The dems have - what- about a 12 member lead over pubs in the House- or whatever it is this week, in an environment where a president usually loses something like 60-80 members at midterms just as part of the normal rotation? Gonna be fun, fun, fun for Pelosi 'til daddy takes her T-Bird away.
well, i did hear the campaign push that BS on more than one occassion; here's a few headlines: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ent-is-moderate-his-agenda-is-transformative/ https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-endorsed-the-green-new-deal-in-all-but-name https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-most-progressive-president-fdr-sanders Sanders' remarks came as a task force set up by the two former rivals released a wide-ranging set of recommendations for the party’s convention platform. "The compromise they came up with, if implemented, will make Biden the most progressive president since FDR," Sanders told MSNBC. "It did not have, needless to say, everything that I wanted, everything that Biden wanted."
Sounds like a lot of hogwash....most progressive since FDR? I think that is Sanders wishful thinking really because Biden's job is to right the ship from things over the past 4 years and prepare for the next group of young leaders. Clinton and Bush were the next generation after Reagan and Daddy Bush which lead into Obama and then we went old with Trump and Hillary and Biden. Time to give the next younguns their turn so Biden needs to clean up some messes and strengthen our position globally but people lightining a candle that he is going to pass major progressive policies and plans are overestimating the election results, the fact that the Senate is and will remain GOP controlled and the House lost seats because of the progressive side. As that woman Abigail argued, the progressive wing willnot walk away from a Presidential election of Trump and let him win again but they opened up House members to attack who lost. Pelosi needs to move on and the AOCs need to realize that you need to play ball...no youngun Rep comes in and changes the entire system... she needs like 4 terms to build a foundation.