The Case For Biden

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WASHINGTON — His economic and environment teams are a little left of center. His foreign policy picks fall squarely in the Democratic Party’s mainstream. His top White House aides are Washington veterans.

Taken together, the picture that emerges from President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s initial wave of personnel choices is a familiar, pragmatic and largely centrist one.

That fits with the implicit deal that the former vice president and longtime senator offered Democrats during the 2020 primaries — that he was neither as progressive as Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, nor a product of Wall Street like Michael Bloomberg, the Republican-turned-Democrat who failed in his last-minute attempt to offer a moderate alternative to Mr. Biden.

CJoint says it just takes one senator. Wrongo wrong.

As I understand it, it would have to voted on and passed by BOTH houses of congress. And there is NO none zero nada chance of that happening. It's never happened before, for good reason. You can fantasize about it all you want, it won't happen.

actually you got it backwards.

Werent you even litening to the texass case on Thurs PM??

The process you think you understand is only invokable with deadlock on the horizon

Disposing of Objections

The joint session does not act on any objections that are made. Instead, the joint session is suspended, the Senate withdraws from the House chamber, and each house meets separately to debate the objection and vote whether, based on the objection, to count the vote or votes in question. Both houses must vote separately to agree to the objection by simple majority. Otherwise, the objection fails and the vote or votes are counted. (3 U.S.C. §15 provides that “the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes.”)

I wonder how oralloy will attempt to talk his way out of that one?

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Bharat Ramamurti, a former adviser to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), as a new member of his economic team.

Ramamurti, who sits on the congressional commission overseeing COVID-19 relief funding, will serve as deputy director for financial reform and consumer protection on the National Economic Council.

David Kamin, an economic and budget adviser in the Obama White House who's now a law professor at New York University, will serve as deputy director for the council, which will be led by Brian Deese, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration.

The Biden transition team also announced Joelle Gamble, a board member at the progressive Roosevelt Institute, as a special assistant to the president for economic policy.

"Today's appointees have broad viewpoints on how to build a stronger and more inclusive middle class," Biden said in a statement Monday. "With their robust experience and qualifications, they will provide the needed voices to guide my administration in overcoming our nation's unprecedented economic challenges."

All three appointments - none of which require Senate confirmation - garnered praise from progressive groups, who have previously expressed disappointment in many of Biden's centrist and moderate picks for Cabinet and advisory positions.

"The appointments of David Kamin, Bharat Ramamurti, and Joelle Gamble are a major win for progressives and all Americans who want the next administration to use every single tool at their disposal to end structural inequality in our economy," said Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, and Varshini Prakash, founder of the Sunrise Movement, in a joint statement. "We will not always always agree, but it will take social movements, legislators in Congress, and likeminded allies in the executive branch to hold the President-elect accountable to delivering results for working families across America."

I wonder how oralloy will attempt to talk his way out of that one?

He'll probably insist that no one has proved him wrong, that pistol grips are a 2nd Amendment right, and that the Democratic Party should be outlawed. He's very clever, you know.

I am not surprised you are unaware of how you were proved to be wrong.

You often are and you often don't realize it.

You said all it takes is one senator and one representative to overturn the election. (words to that affect.)

You are wrong.

That is how the process starts.

It ends when there is not a simple majority in both houses to agree to the objection raised. There is no way there is going to be a simple majority in either house. For sure not in the house of representatives. So it is over basically before it even starts and everyone knows it.

I'm not sure about that

The process you think you understand is only invokable with deadlock on the horizon