Biden Whistles Foul!

Biden White House communications director cries foul, blasting left-wing New York Times editorial board for criticizing flood of executive orders.
Careening down the halls of the White House in record setting fashion, Biden is signing unprecedented numbers of executive orders.
Executive orders aren’t exactly the tool wielded to build bipartisan cooperation. So much for his campaign promise, given at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 30, 2020, promising to get bipartisan cooperation on the economy when he said, “Look folks, we’re going to bring the Republicans and Democrats together, and deliver economic relief for working families, and schools, and businesses; I promise you.”
On January 22, 2021, Biden signed an executive order to streamline delivery of stimulus checks in his attempt, without congressional assistance (let alone bipartisan cooperation), to stabilize the economy. On February 5, 2021, Biden met with House leaders and signaled that he was on board with a partisan push for economic stimulus. This, after both the Democrat majority led House and Senate pushed through rules changes that will make it easy for them to pass Biden’s $1.9 Trillion stimulus bill. The House adopted a budget resolution that cleared the Senate and paved the way to pass the bill in the coming weeks with only Democrat votes.
So what was it, again, that BIden said at that Wisconsin campaign event back in October, “Look folks, we’re going to bring the Republicans and Democrats together, and deliver economic relief for working families, and schools, and businesses; I promise you.”
During the presidential campaign we all recall the Build Back Better slogan of Biden’s economic recovery plan. Is it just me? Wouldn’t it be better to build back in the manner in which you promised, with bipartisan cooperation? It seems, if you do that, you not only keep your word, but you also go a long way in ensuring that what is built back is actually built better according to how the government representatives for the 50% percent of Americans on the one side of the aisle see it just as much as according to how the government representatives for the 50% of Americans on the other side of the aisle see it.
I don’t know about you, but if I’m managing a farm with 50 zebras and 50 pink flamingos and the barns need repainting, I’m going to make sure the “Barn Recoating Commission” makes a decision on the colors the barns will be painted only after a fair and genuine voice of opinion is proclaimed by representatives of both the vanilla-licorice constituents and the grapefruit constituents.
The real bonus there is, with equal voice and representation going into the paint color choices, the less the likelihood the flamingos will be dive bombing the zebra barns and the zebras will be kickin in the flamingo barns. It’s amazing how that works.
February 8, 2021 – by Derrick Urquhart