Joe and Mitch are on the verge of becoming America’s new power couple.
Some think McConnell will be the same w/ Joe that he was w/ Obama
Others think Joe is better w/ Congress and circumstances r different
W/ @burgessev @marianne_levine politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
Some think McConnell will be the same w/ Joe that he was w/ Obama
Others think Joe is better w/ Congress and circumstances r different
W/ @burgessev @marianne_levine politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
The bipartisan optimists say:
Mitch was the only Republican Senator to attend Beau Biden’s funeral
Former McConnell aides said Biden was just much better in his negotiating style than Obama was.
Mitch was the only Republican Senator to attend Beau Biden’s funeral
Former McConnell aides said Biden was just much better in his negotiating style than Obama was.
Chuck Hagel, Obama’s defense Secretary who served w/ Biden as a GOP Senator, agreed Biden is just very different at Congress relations.
Biden will be “personally involved. Obama’s style was different...Obama didn’t really understand the Congress, the Senate, like Joe does.”
Biden will be “personally involved. Obama’s style was different...Obama didn’t really understand the Congress, the Senate, like Joe does.”
Didn’t make the story but Hagel also argued that the congressional obstruction during Obama wasn’t a “one way street” and Dems needs to accept some blame, citing Obamacare.
“That set the stage and the environment for the future Obama administration. That went down very badly.”
“That set the stage and the environment for the future Obama administration. That went down very badly.”
On the pessimists side, Sen. Chris Murphy said: “Mitch McConnell will force Joe Biden to negotiate every single Cabinet secretary, every single district court judge, every single U.S. attorney with him. My guess is we’ll have a constitutional crisis pretty immediately.”
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