A decent man but time to step aside

 

Biden and his family will be AMERICAS GREATEST SCANDAL. The man is not only senile, he's a fucking idiot on top of it...

Folks, Let Me Start Off with Two Words - Made In America, and a three letter word: J-O-B-S!!!

C'mon, man! It's time to finalize the trunalimunumaprzure, as you know, by, go, you know, you know... the thing! No Malarkey! She was 12, I was 30........ This woman helped me get a lot of things done. Like bldhyindclapding. Really, I mean it!! Not a joke!!

I've been to all 54 states now, I bravely shot down that Chinese balloon, so I know about these things! And if you don't believe me, I'll take you out behind the woodshed and teach you a thing or two, like we used to do, you lying dog-faced pony soldier! C'mon, man, really, it's true! And all you insurrectionist treasonous evil ultra mega MAGA Trump supporters must be defeated to save democracy! Look, look, I'll bring us all together - unite - we must unite! I've always been good at that! No malarkey, it's true!

Now... where's my balloon and ice cream?

Jill... Jill... somebody soiled my pants again. No joke!!!

-- Joe Biden

 

We see again how a fact check subtly changes the narrative to achieve the objective.

The issue is, are those IRS agents coming for service employees tips for tax purposes?
The answer is, yes.
And Shooter is pretty sure there aren't many servers making over $400,000 a year.

But the narrative took a subtle shift during fact checking to emphacize that tips are taxable, (not the issue) and that the new rule is only proposed (to improve tip reporting and hence increase servers tax liability).

 

Still making hay. President Biden knew exactly what he was doing in his SOTU. He knew how stupid and ignorant the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are and that they could not resist playing right into his hands.

He has successfully made Green the face of the Republican party and is going to keep her right there. With lots of help from her and her attention whoring of course.

'Liar, liar': Joe Biden leaves crowd roaring in laughter with Marjorie Taylor Greene joke

David Edwards
February 28, 2023



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President Joe Biden provoked laughter from a crowd in Virginia Beach on Tuesday after he told a joke about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

At an event about affordable health care, Biden recalled that he had openly "negotiated" with Republicans during his State of the Union address.

Mention of Biden's back-and-forth with Republicans on Social Security earned him cheers from the audience.

"I've been around for a lot of State of the Unions; I never saw one where the president got to negotiate in the open with everybody," the president said to laughter.

"Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene was yelling, 'Liar, liar, Biden's a liar,'" Biden said mockingly.

At that point, Biden made the sign of a cross on his chest, presumably biting his tongue instead of criticizing Greene.

The crowd roared with laughter.

"I'm going to be good," Biden insisted.

Watch the video clip below from PBS.

 

Biden Administration ‘Worried’ 2008 Warrantless Wiretap Spy Law Will Lapse


AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
WENDELL HUSEBØ28 Feb 2023

The Biden administration is reportedly worried a 2008 spy law permitting warrantless wiretaps will not be renewed by Congress, as lawmakers on both the left and right have expressed privacy concerns.

With the law set to expire at the end of 2023, the administration “is so worried” about renewing the legislation that “it has begun the push to lobby for reauthorization 10 months before the law sunsets,” the Washington Post reported.

“Its value cannot be overstated,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said Tuesday at the Brookings Institution. “Without 702, we will lose indispensable intelligence for our decision-makers and warfighters, as well as those of our allies. And we have no fallback authority that could come close to making up for that loss.”


Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Matthew Olsen. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The law under Section 702 grants federal agencies the ability to wiretap Americans without probable cause in certain circumstances, according to the Post:

Section 702 allows the FBI and the National Security Agency to gather emails, text messages and other electronic data from U.S. tech firms like Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta without a traditional warrant based on probable cause when the target is a foreigner overseas and it’s for foreign intelligence purposes, such as counterterrorism, nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks.

The material gathered goes into a database and that surveillance is subject to oversight by a federal court, Congress, the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The FBI is granted access to only a portion of that database.

But the left and right have criticized the law for different reasons. Privacy advocates are largely focused on a subset of 702 collection — the FBI’s searches of a fraction of the 702 database for leads in counterespionage, cyber or counterterrorism probes. The FBI does not need a warrant in most cases to scour the database of foreign targets for an email address, but because the target may have been in communication with a U.S. citizen or resident and that email may be in the database, the lack of a warrant requirement has long concerned privacy advocates.


In this January 18, 2017, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)



The law was initially passed in 2008 when the Obama administration was worried about middle east terrorism. Since then, it has been reauthorized twice by Congress with increasingly narrower scopes.

Critics and privacy advocates say the law permits warrantless searches of American email accounts that have interfaced with foreign targets. But some in the intelligence community claim the Americans incidentally caught up in the data collection are of a small amount.

President Joe Biden speaks at an event to celebrate Black History Month, Monday, February 27, 2023, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“We’re talking only about the subset of national security targets the FBI is worried about, mainly in counterintelligence and counterterrorism cases — and only if they think there’s some foreign connection. They can’t just search that database for some routine domestic crime,” former NSA general counsel Glenn Gerstell told the Post.

The expiring legislation comes as many Americans do not trust the FBI in the wake of its spying on former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, alleged failure to investigate Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell,” and recent bombshell revelation that former New York FBI spy chief was indicted for violating U.S. sanctions by agreeing to provide services to a Russian oligarch.

House Republicans have launched a “Weaponization” subcommittee to investigate the FBI’s politicization. But the White House is apparently unhappy the House select subcommittee would conduct hearings on the weaponization of government. In a letter released just hours before its first hearing, the special assistant to President Joe Biden, Ians Sams, slammed the subcommittee as an “Un-American” political stunt that is only a priority of MAGA Republicans.

 

This law can be a good tool.
But as we know, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

The hits from creepy senile joe just keep coming... So 81 million people voted for this huh?


Biden Promises to Raise Your Taxes, Tells Truly Creepy Story About a Nurse
By Nick Arama | 6:00 PM on February 28, 2023


Jacquelyn Martin, Pool

I often wonder what these audiences must think when they listen to Joe Biden lie his head off and spout utter nonsense. While he’s generally going to speak before friendly groups of Democrats and/or people are generally trying to be polite, most Americans know that they are worse off under him and they can’t be feeling very kindly toward him when he has so adversely affected their lives and particularly their finances


Biden went to Virginia Beach on Tuesday to attack Republicans for caring about his excessive spending that is bankrupting the country and has caused inflation to skyrocket. Meanwhile, he lied yet again about Republicans regarding healthcare.

“The President will discuss his plan to protect Americans’ access to affordable health care, and he will highlight how Congressional Republicans would raise health care costs – including for seniors, and cause millions of people to lose their coverage,” the White House said in a press release. Meanwhile, it’s been Biden who has been targeting Medicare Advantage, while Republicans have pledged not to touch Social Security or Medicare. So he’s quite the hypocrite when it comes to that.

But the last time he was in the Hampton Roads area was May 2021, for his “Get America Back on Track Tour.” We can see how well — or more exactly how badly — things have gone since then, and it’s truly ironic that he’s going there before he’s going to a place where things went off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio.

But while he was in Virginia, in the face of crushing inflation at a 40-year high, with people trying to figure out how they can pay all their bills, Biden promised to raise taxes on Americans, something he’s lied about in the past, but which we knew he would try to do.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/sta...ells-truly-creepy-story-about-a-nurse-n709773

He also yelled about a 15 percent minimum tax that would allow him to do what he wanted to do — which is what all this raising taxes is about — serving the Democrats’ political agenda, not something that’s in the best interests of Americans — like us keeping more of our own money would be.

Biden claimed that where he came from $800 mattered. But he’s cost Americans far more than that since he’s been in office, with hundreds more in expenses every month for every American family.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/sta...ells-truly-creepy-story-about-a-nurse-n709773

He’s crushing people with Bidenflation.

But when he tried to explain numbers, it began going very wrong and he lost against the teleprompter.

So maybe he shouldn’t be targeting Medicare Advantage which would harm almost half the people eligible for Medicare who have signed up for it.

Then when he started talking about providing healthcare, that’s when he went over the edge into gibberish.

He says this which makes no sense:https://twitter.com/townhallcom/sta...ells-truly-creepy-story-about-a-nurse-n709773

“Studies show…that the more likely you are to pass or have serious injury, the further you are from the access to a hospital,” Biden sputtered. He’s just reading off the teleprompter and has no idea what he’s saying. I think what he means is the reverse — that if you are further away from a hospital, the more likely you are to have problems as a result — more injury/pass. But you don’t need a study to show that, that’s just common sense.

It got worse. This was practically unintelligible, though you might get it if you listen to it a few times.

He was trying to praise nurses. But then that led to one heck of a weird story as he praised one of the nurses who took care of him after he had his brain aneurysms back in 1988.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/st...ells-truly-creepy-story-about-a-nurse-n709773

“I had a nurse named Pearl Nelson. She’d come in and do things I don’t think you learn in nursing school. She’d whisper in my ear, I couldn’t understand, but she’d whisper and she’d lean down and actually breathe on me to make sure…there was a human connection.” He then went on to say she’d go home and bring in pillows from her home for him.

He’s told a version of this story in the past.


https://twitter.com/tomselliott/sta...ells-truly-creepy-story-about-a-nurse-n709773

As I wrote at the time, it is not likely that it occurred the way Biden told it, with him saying that the nurses breathed into his nostrils to get him moving. Nurses at the time he told this story in 2020 said they’d never heard of such a thing. Is this why he’s always sniffing on people?

Chances that it ever happened the way he told it? Not likely, but that’s typical Joe Biden where you have to sort through all the fantasy and lies. But this story, like the hairy legs and Corn Pop, is just straight-up creepy. He’s so weird.

 

One realizes, listening to Biden babble, that the odds of us surviving as a society are very slim just now.

 

The lying biden was even worse when he was younger....

 

We blame it on the nurses.

​

Biden claims he had a nurse who would whisper in his ear and BREATHE on him | Daily Mail Online
Biden claims he had an ICU nurse who would whisper in his ear and BREATHE on him to make sure there was a 'human connection'

• President Joe Biden awkwardly gushed about the good treatment he received from the nurses at Walter Reed during a healthcare event Tuesday
• Biden had been hospitalized in 1988 for double aneurysms
• He recalled one nurse who would whisper in his ear and breathe on him so that he'd feel a 'human connection'

President Joe Biden awkwardly gushed about the good treatment he received from the nurses at Walter Reed during a healthcare event in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Tuesday.
At the top of his speech Biden gave a shout-out to nurses and talked about how well he was cared for when he was hospitalized in 1988 for two life-threatening brain aneurysms.
'I had a nurse named Pearl Nelson. She'd come in and do things I don't think you learn in nursing school,' he said to laughs. 'She'd whisper in my ear, I couldn't understand, but she'd whisper and she'd lean down. And actually breathe on me to make sure there was a connection, a human connection.'
Nelson, Biden said, even went home and grabbed a pillow off her bed because the then-U.S. senator found the one assigned to him not very comfortable.

He said to the medical professionals in the crowd, 'You docs are good, but if there's any angels in heaven, they're the nurses, male and female.'

Now look. When Shooter was in the ICU the nurses there certainly saved his life and made him as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. They are angels in disguise and Shooter will always thank a nurse. That said, one just has to wonder how Biden's brain works it's way around some topics.

She "breathed" on him? and whispered in his ear? And he didn't understand what she was saying, but she was doing it to make a "human connection"?

Huh. Shooter suspects that nurse, if she did bring in a pillow from home, wasn't to make Joe more comfortable ............​

 

Whispering in one's ear and breathing on them??? Ah yes, the cornerstone to any good medical care treatment....

 

House Democrat Blurts out an Uncomfortable Truth About Joe Biden During Interview
By Sister Toldjah | 5:00 PM on March 01, 2023



AP Photo/Susan Walsh

Though Joe Biden hasn’t officially declared his intention to run for reelection in 2024, rumor has it the announcement is coming as soon as this month, next month at the latest.


In anticipation of the formal statement from Biden, news outlets have run wild with stories of how his 2024 campaign strategies are being gamed out, with one report suggesting that Biden was going to rely heavily on younger Democrats to make the case for him even as he hits the road to stump for himself in a reversal of the basement strategy that worked for him in 2020.

But according to one House Democrat quoted on the record in a piece arguing in favor of Biden to be primaried due to age and polling showing majorities of Dems want him to bow out, there are many on his side of the aisle in Congress who aren’t too keen on Biden even running again let alone want to speak on his behalf:

In private, of course, many elected Democrats say Biden is too old to run again and that they wish he’d step away—which aligns with what large majorities of Democrats and independents have been telling pollsters for months. The public silence around the president’s predicament has become tiresome and potentially catastrophic for the Democratic Party. Somebody should make a refreshing nuisance of themselves and involve the voters in this decision.

[…]

“This is not a knock on Joe Biden, just a wish for competition,” says Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, one of a tiny number of elected Democrats who have expressed on-the-record trepidation about Biden’s plans. Phillips couches the absurdity of this in terms of free enterprise. “In the business world, if the dominant brand in a category had favorability ratings like the current president does, you would see a number of established brands jump into that category,” Phillips told me. “Believe me, there are literally hundreds in Congress who would say the same thing,” he said. “But they simply won’t f**king say a word.”

Back over the summer, Phillips was among a handful of Congressional Democrats openly expressing a desire to see someone else at the head of the Democratic ticket in 2024, and in February, Phillips brought up Biden’s age as a key reason many Democrats have – behind the scenes – suggested Biden walk away in 2024.

“He’s a president of great competence and success, I admire the heck out of President Biden,” Phillips stated at the time. “And if he were 15-20 years younger it would be a no-brainer to nominate him, but considering his age it’s absurd we’re not promoting competition but trying to extinguish it.”

Credit to Phillips for at least acknowledging the elephant in the room instead of gaslighting the hell out of people by telling them that Biden can run circles around people much younger than him, a ridiculous claim we’ve heard from the likes of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre among others.

Biden is unlikely to get a viable primary challenger if any challenger at all, but the fact that we’re hearing more and more Democrats blurt out the quiet part about how his age (and, reading between the lines, mental acuity as well) is going to be a factor suggests that what Phillips is claiming about the volume of Democrats who are allegedly cringing over the thought of a second Biden run may be right on the money.

 

So Joe is under the magafiningglass once again. $32 billion ? Or was it $36 billion in contracts to black listed Chinese firms. No worries the media won't say a word.

 

Move along.
Nothing to see here.

 

Joe is letting out that he is going to ask for a tax increase with his new budget.
But he's insisting that only the rich fuckers making more than $400,000 a year will be effected.
Does anyone believe that?
Biden reveals he will RAISE taxes in his March 9 budget | Daily Mail Online
Biden reveals he will RAISE taxes in his March 9 budget as he ups war on billionaires - but insists he won't make Americans earning less than $400,000 'pay a penny more'

• President Joe Biden revealed Tuesday that he will pitch raising taxes when he releases a proposed budget on March 9
• He insisted he will stick to his campaign promise not to hike taxes on Americans making less than $400,000 a year
• Biden made the remarks during his trip Tuesday to Virginia Beach, Virginia

President Joe Biden revealed Tuesday that he will pitch raising taxes when he releases a proposed budget on March 9, but insists he will stick to his campaign promise not to hike taxes on Americans making less than $400,000 a year.

Biden made the remarks during his trip Tuesday to Virginia Beach, Virginia, in a speech that was mainly dedicated to defending the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid against Republican cuts.

'I want to make it clear, I'm gonna raise some taxes,' Biden said in the speech. 'Many of you are billionaires out there. You're going to stop paying at 3 percent.'

He said, however, that 'no one over 400 - making less than $400,000 - is going to pay a penny more in taxes.'

Biden has agreed to cut the deficit by $2 trillion over a 10-year period so that Congressional Republicans will vote to lift the debt limit.

The U.S. will default on its debt sometime between July and September if the $31.4 trillion debt limit doesn't get raised before then, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected last month.

Biden has challenged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to release a Republican budget proposal so they can jointly negotiate spending cuts.

'Instead of making threats about default, which could be catastrophic even if it doesn't happen - because the markets around the world begin to hedge against it and it affects the economies - let's take that off the table,' Biden said Tuesday.

'And let's - let's have a conversation about how we're going to grow the economy, lower the costs and reduce the deficit, each of us.'

At the same time, he's hammered Republicans for weeks on some of the proposals certain lawmakers have made, including Sen. Rick Scott's pre-midterms pitch to have legislation 'sunset' every five years.

Democrats defined that to include Social Security and Medicare - something Scott denied, but later articulated on the website promoting his plan.

Older Americans tend to skew Republican, but Democrats hoped the messaging would chip some of those voters away.

Biden's budget will be rolled out later in the year than usual and it's unclear if he'll address Social Security funding in it.


President Joe Biden said that 'billionaires' will be hit with tax hikes in his forthcoming budget proposal. The right-leaning Tax Foundation said in January that the top 1 percent of earners are paying, on average, a tax rate of 26 percent

The Washington Post reported last week that he sat down with progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders in January, who pitched him on a way to fund the program for an additional 75 years, but that would break his pledge not to raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 annually.

Sanders' plan called for all income, including investments, over $250,000 to be taxed to pay for Social Security.

Some Democrats suggested Biden shouldn't get into specifics on Social Security funding because the program won't run out until 2032 and it's become a potent attack line.

'There's a faction inside the White House that feels some need to offer a plan, though I personally think that's misplaced,' a senior Democratic pollster told The Post. 'Stick to our basic message: Hands off our seniors. That's working.'

 

I have never seen such impotence. On this thread and the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican party. The voters rejected Greens kind of menially ill extremism at the polls and turned the Red Tsunami into a limp dick piss stream. And I will say again as I have before considering all the different factors including history the Red Tsunami should have been a very real thing. I was personally braced for it.

But instead President Biden and the Democrats put that anti democratic insane extremism the focus of their campaigns. Hell they even interfered in GOP primaries to help the most extreme and insane candidates win the primaries. And I was in the camp saying are you fucking crazy. You will probably get them elected. But I was wrong and it really paid off.

And now they are continuing that full speed ahead. To the point where every time voters look at Republicans all they see is MTG. And the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are powerless to prevent that. They elevated Green and promoted her and are now impotent to stand up to her.

Giving President Biden full rein to keep making her the face of the Republican party. And she is the gift that just keeps on giving almost every day.

'Isn’t she amazing?' Biden trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene

Meaghan Ellis, AlterNet
March 02, 2023



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President Joe Biden recently took a jab at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during his speech at an annual retreat held in Baltimore, Md.

The president's comments came just one day after Greene's remarks asking Rebecca Kiessling, a Michigan mother who lost two of her children in 2020 due to drug-related deaths, if her children could still be alive “if our government would secure our southern border.”

Kiessling, a conservative activist, responding in agreement with Greene's suggestion saying, "Absolutely."

Accompanying the clip of her brief conversation with Kiessling, Greene tweeted, “Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl.”However, CNN pushed back against Greene's assertion blaming Biden and his administration by highlighting that former President Donald Trump was actually in office when Kiessling's son died of a fentanyl-related death.

Biden also weighed in.

“She was very specific — I shouldn’t digress, probably — I read, she was very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing is, that fentanyl they took came during the last administration,” Biden said while chuckling, also saying, “Look folks. Anyway, I don’t want to get started.”The president went on to appeal to lawmakers to unify.

“We need to come together on police reform and immigration reform. We need to protect voting rights and the right to choose. Ladies and gentleman, we got to reinstate Roe v. Wade and pass it nationally. We really do,” Biden said. “And look, I know as well as you the MAGA Republicans are not gonna get on board for most of these things. But that leaves a lot of Republicans that are still left. By the way watch, watch, I predict, watch, watch what happens. Republicans can help make a significant majority on some of these things.”

Biden went on to list a number of bipartisan initiatives currently in play before turning his attention to the Georgia lawmaker.

“It’s hard as hell, I acknowledge, but it’s there,” he said speaking about potential bipartisan agreements as he added, “and, you know, a little bit more of Marjorie Taylor Greene and, a few more, you’re gonna have a lot of Republicans running our way.”

“Isn’t she amazing?” he said of Greene.

Biden's latest jab comes just days after his recent comical remarks about Greene in Virginia. Speaking to that crowd, he said, "I've been around for a lot of State of the Unions; I never saw one where the president got to negotiate in the open with everybody."

The crowd reacted with laughter as he continued, "Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene was yelling, 'Liar, liar, Biden's a liar,'" Biden said mockingly.



https://www.rawstory.com/isnt-she-amazing-biden-trolls-marjorie-taylor-greene-2659491933/

 

If you listen you can hear the progressive howls from wherever you are.


Biden says he won't veto GOP measure to repeal DC's new criminal code
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TRISH TURNER and ALLISON PECORIN
Thu, March 2, 2023 at 2:51 PM MST·5 min read


President Joe Biden, during a visit to Capitol Hill Thursday, told Senate Democrats behind closed doors that he would not veto a controversial Republican-led effort to roll back Washington, D.C.'s new progressive criminal code, a move that gives political cover to Democrats up for reelection.

Afterward, Biden refused to answer ABC News' shouted questions about how he'd handle the congressional bill if it came to his desk. But multiple senators confirmed that he told them there would be no veto.

"He said that very clearly and we heard it very loud and clear," said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as he was departing the lunch. "I clapped very loudly because I feel the same."

Biden later confirmed in a tweet that he would sign the legislation to rescind the new criminal code, passed by the D.C. City Council, if it comes to his desk. The city's Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, had vetoed the local legislation but the council overrode her veto.

"I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule -- but I don't support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor's objections -- such as lowering penalties for carjackings," he tweeted. "If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did -- I'll sign it."

The city's criminal code has been the subject of much debate locally and at the federal level, with Congress having the ultimate say over D.C. laws.

The Republican-controlled House voted last month to block the criminal code revision, which would require more jury trials and reduces penalties for carjacking, robbery and some other violent crimes. The Biden administration said at the time that it opposed the House action, saying Congress should respect D.C.'s autonomy, but didn't commit to a presidential veto.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was hammered with questions about the president's apparent reversal at the daily briefing. She told reporters his view on statehood hasn't changed.

"The way that we see this is, it's very different. This is, the D.C. Council put changes forward over the mayor's objections. And the president doesn't support changes like lowering penalties for carjacking," she said.

"Look one thing that the president believes in is making sure that the streets in America and communities across the country are safe," she added. "That includes D.C. -- that does not change."

MORE: House votes to block 2 DC bills, drawing some local outrage and calls for statehood


PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer walks with President Joe Biden as he arrives at the Capitol, March 2, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Manchin, who's up for reelection next November, announced his support for the effort to quash the new D.C. measure earlier this week. His support, coupled with Sen. John Fetterman's absence, made it more likely that the GOP-bill would pass.

But Biden's decision not to stand in its way gives potentially vulnerable Democrats cover on crime issues, some of whom left the lunch outright saying they'll now vote with Republicans to quash the D.C. law.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat facing reelection in 2024, said he'll vote with Republicans to quash the city measure next week, highlighting that Bowser vetoed it.

"I think calling it a home rule thing is not so accurate as this is about getting it right," Heinrich said. "We all realize there are some very serious crime issues."

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who will also be on the ballot next year, also said he'll vote to block the D.C. law.

"I didn't support what they [D.C.] did," Casey said, though he said Biden's decision not to veto did not affect his decision.

MORE: Senate Democrats could join Republicans in voting to reject DC's new criminal code

Other Democrats were more hesitant to explicitly state how they'd vote but several said they have real concerns about the D.C. measure. It was a noted change of tone from conversations earlier this week as Democrats consider the political implications of backing legislation that Republicans could claim makes them "soft on crime."

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., is still reviewing the bill, but said she is focused on keeping communities, including D.C. where she resides part time, safe.

"I can tell you the most important thing we hear from everyone is safe and secure communities," said Rosen, who will face reelection in 2024. "We have to be sure we are protecting everyone as best we can."

"I have concerns about the reduction in some of the crime sentencing that I've seen, as a former prosecutor with respect to reduction in crime around carjackings and home invasions," said Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who narrowly won reelection in purple Nevada in November. "It's not ready yet for prime time."

Most Democrats who said they will vote to block the GOP-proposed bill next week are doing so not because they back the changes to D.C. criminal code, but because support D.C. self-rule.

"If I had been on the city council I would have voted against the measure," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said. "But I respect the process of the people of the District of Columbia to self-determination."

Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty, who is sponsoring the effort to quash the D.C. bill, dismissed those concerns.

"I think there's a bit of conflation with D.C. statehood and what is simply a public safety issue. D.C. statehood is a separate issue. This is this is about the safety of everybody in D.C. It's the safety of my staff and the safety of constituents. I had 150 people in to visit me just yesterday," the Tennessee Republican said.


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/biden-says-wont-veto-gop-215112584.html