To borrow a Bidenism: Finish the job.
It’s an age of remakes: If the past few months have been a restaging of the 2011 debt ceiling drama, we’ve already got the cast and crew set for a new version of 2013’s fiscal cliff catastrophe.For now, the Biden administration will surely invite the comparison to 2011, where the Obama administration got bludgeoned in negotiations with the GOP, setting back the country’s economic recovery a decade.
Biden made out much better than that; according to Politico his team privately views the deal asBut they still don’t want to message it as a partisan, Democratic win. Instead, they’re trying to project Biden as a sane and steadyhanded bipartisan navigator in an uncertain time, hovering above it all. “Biden’s advisers are betting that voters will reward him for getting a big thing done in a bipartisan fashion,” according to the Politico story. “Biden world wanted to emerge from the process with the public perception of being the ‘adults in the room.’”This makes no sense and is terrible politics. Biden has been at his most popular and effective when scoring party-line Democratic victories, and calling out Republicans for their assault on democracy and their willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare and illegalize abortion. Reverting back to messaging about how he can work with these people alienates the base Biden desperately needs for reelection and doesn’t pass basic argumentative muster. It made no sense in 2022 and 2021 before that.And this deal may not be a crushing loss, but it is not a victory. The cuts are meaningful and will be felt by Americans around the country. On climate, on student debt, and on welfare, there is real retrenchment. Perhaps even more importantly, they’ve given the GOP a foothold from which to further attack these flagship programs. And if the Republicans win big in 2024, there is no doubt that they will.Billions of dollars are going away from things like modernizing the welfare program and cracking down on tax cheats, which minimizes inequality. Billions are flowing towards things like new fossil fuel infrastructure. Over
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