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Maybe Joe Biden just doesn’t remember his own words.
Among the numerous low points of Thursday’s news conference, the 46th president’s answer to a question about the Senate filibuster was close to the bottom.
In one exchange, he managed to insult the country, the political institution where he spent most his of adult life and he even managed to insult himself.
The moment came when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Biden if he agreed with former President Barack Obama that the Senate filibuster was a “relic of the Jim Crow era.”
Biden’s agreement that the filibuster was racist was all but assured.
Any politician who owed his presidency to Obama and the country’s black voters would think twice before crossing its first black president. For a president as politically weak as Biden — with fingernail thin majorities in the House and Senate and widespread doubts about his cognitive abilities — it would have been impossible.
He then launched into a platitude about politics being “the art of the possible” (a phrase generally attributed to the 19th century Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck) and tried to revert to the reasonable Uncle Joe of his public image. But his answer made it clear that the foes of the filibuster have a friend in the White House. --->READ MORE HERE
President Joe Biden has been increasingly critical of the Senate filibuster, calling it a Jim Crow relic and saying it has been widely abused despite Democrats using it over 300 times in 2020, compared to once by Republicans.
“After @POTUS @JoeBiden denounced the rampant abuse of the filibuster last year, we did some digging,” Fox News anchor John Roberts tweeted Friday. “Republicans used it once. Democrats used it 327 times.”
After @POTUS @JoeBiden denounced the rampant abuse of the filibuster last year, we did some digging. Republicans used it once. Democrats used it 327 times. @FoxNews
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) March 26, 2021
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