Vineyard Vines wrote:
I like Joe, but his presidency is basically over. We got a pretty good rollout of the covid vaccine, a stimulus (that may or may not have been needed), and an infrastructure bill. He got a Supreme Court justice, and she seems fine, but the Court is basically a joke at this point anyhow.
The Democrats will get killed in the midterms, inflation and gas prices are the death knell. We'll have divided government for two years, so nothing will happen. I do hope we won't have to live through any bizarre, Benghazi-like hearings where Republicans try to score points on a guy who probably won't even run for re-election. It's not needed.
This seems like a cycle that will continue until the middle picks a side and sticks with it. Americans seem to be willing to give a party control for two years, then immediately flip flop and hand back divided government. That means that little gets done, particularly the hard issues that are screaming out for new legislation, like immigration. It's a crap way to govern, mostly by executive orders that will inevitably be rolled back immediately by the next person to hold the seat. I just don't see it changing, the extremes are too divided, and the middle can't decide what it wants.
Baghdad agip disagrees. He thinks soaring inflation are gas prices are no big deal.