The “talking heads” on TV have commented on the State of the Union Address and the supposed trickery Biden used to force the GOP to publicly admit that they were not in favor of cutting Social Security and Medicare. But that was a golden opportunity for Biden to win another battle and he missed it. The debt ceiling extension is wrapped up in the GOP attempts to negotiate unspecified spending cuts as a political ploy. Biden should have used the SSA and Medicare response to win the debt ceiling battle. He should have said “I want all the Democratic members of Congress to remain totally silent for the next 5 minutes. Now I invite ANY GOP member of Congress to stand, be recognized and tell us which programs you want us to cut”. It’s obvious that no one would respond and that, in the view of an audience of 38 million people would prove conclusively that the GOP is only posturing the debt ceiling opposition for political purposes. Because Biden failed to capitalize he and his Party must now fight the battle in back rooms with separate skirmishes among various disjointed and hostile GOP members. All that could have been avoided if Biden had only spotlighted the real motives of the Republican Party. Better luck next time, Mr. President.
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