While Rome Burned

Comment by Jim Campbell

September 27th, 2021

The myth that “Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned is just that, a myth.

That’s not to say he wasn’t on par with today’s so-called political elite, they will all likely burn in hell where they belong for raping, pillaging and plundering their constituents from the day most were sworn into office.

The source of this phrase is the supposed story that Nero played the fiddle (violin) while Rome burned, during the great fire in AD 64.

While Rome burned in 64 AD and while people were dying and suffering, the Emperor Nero played his fiddle and sang.

There are two major flaws with the story. Firstly, there was no such instrument as the fiddle (violin) in first century Rome. If Nero played anything during the Rome fire, it was probably the lyre.

Secondly, the story may be completely false and Nero may very well not have neglected his duty at all. Nero died four years later, and we should remember that history is written by the victors. The historian Suetonius records the Nero was responsible for the fire and that he watched it from a tower while playing an instrument and singing about the destruction of Troy. Others record this story merely as a rumor.

By modern-day standards Nero certainly appears a bizarre character, but that doesn’t make this story true. Roman scholars differ over interpretations of events surrounding the fire.

The rivalries and conflicting accounts, even those in contemporary reports, make the ‘fiddling’ story uncertain.

Fear not, this is not the end, but the beginning for us and the end for them.

If you missed it, please read” The left in Washington smells fear

A Rot Pervades America’s Institutions

Epoch Times

Roger Kimball

September 26, 2021

Commentary

At the end of his magisterial book “How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower,” Adrian Goldsworthy compares the fate of imperial Rome with contemporary America.

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The dominance of a civilization, he notes, depends not only on resources and military prowess but also on “culture,” that hard-to-define yet palpable mixture of confidence, savoir-faire, and commitment to foundational principles beyond the calculus of individual profit or aggrandizement.

Beginning in the third century, Goldsworthy writes, Rome began to turn away from that cultural compact and decline wove itself into the sinews of Roman society.

“The rot,” Goldsworth observes, “began at the top, and in time a similar attitude pervaded the entire government and army high command.”

I predict that future historians, seeking to understand the decline of the United States, will settle on the annus horribilis of 2021 as the terminus a quo. [The current cabal in D.C.]]

Immersed in the moment, it is often hard to disentangle the main story from the cacophony and chatter of mere events.

But can anyone who is not Jen Psaki contemplate America’s leadership and not discern the rot at the top?

Goldsworthy mentions the army high command. Take a look at the American high command, beginning with Sec/Def Lloyd “stand down” Austin and Mark “White Rage” Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A lot of ink has been spilled trying to assess them both, their surrender to identity politics and to the corrosive sentimentality of political correctness.

General Milley’s treacherous effort to circumvent the chain of command and pretend that America’s military answered first of all to him, not the President, has attracted some measure of the obloquy it deserves, but he continues on in his position instead of being courtmartialed.

I doubt that he will be able to remain for long in the army—public sentiment against him is strong and growing—but I also doubt that he will be disciplined.

The rot that he himself embodies is too widespread to require it.

Indeed, “rot at the top” describes our situation to a T.

At the pinnacle we have an erratic practitioner of glossolalia whom everyone, friend and foe alike, understands is well on the road to senility.

Then cast your eye down the line of succession: Vice President Kamala Harris, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellin, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

A depressing cavalcade, isn’t it?

But the rot is not confined to political figures.

What Robert Frost called “the slow smokeless burning of decay” has installed itself in the heart of many of our most cherished institutions.

I already mentioned the military. What about our intelligence and crime fighting institutions?

Roger L. Simon, writing in these pages recently, got it exactly right about the FBI.

It must be dismantled, and not just the leadership “but the whole organization and everyone in it.”

With every passing week, its role in concocting and disseminating the whole “Russia Collusion” narrative against Donald Trump becomes more obvious and more disgusting.

And note well that its activities on that front are not done and over with.

Christopher Wray, the Director of the Bureau, is assiduously pursuing the successor to the Russia Collusion Narrative: the Jan. 6 insurrection hoax, according to which American citizens exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech are branded as “domestic extremists” and hunted down.

The closer you look at that institution, the worse it looks.

Even the mild mannered Holman Jenkins, writing in The Wall Street Journal, argues that the Bureau “should be scrapped and something new built to replace it.”

Recent revelations about the Bureau’s role in planning and abetting the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as well as the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol—even The New York Times had to acknowledge that—underscore the depth of the rot at the once-respected institution.

And what about other institutions, higher education, for example? It speaks volumes, I think, that Harvard’s new chaplain, Greg Epstein, is a self-professed atheist.

Reflecting on the experience of Rome, Adrian Goldsworthy notes that when “governments or agencies forget what they are really for, then decline will occur.”

Moreover, he writes, “bureaucracies are stubborn” and “tend to expand on their own and develop their own agendas.”

The rot that was likely yesterday becomes inexorable tomorrow.

Can the trend be reversed? Maybe. But Goldsworthy is right. “If the trend is to be reversed, then this process needs to start at the very top.”

What do you suppose the prospects of that are?

Perhaps it is an illustration of Franz Kafka’s mordant observation that “there is hope, but not for us.”

Is the Apocalypse upon us? Don’t bet on it

Comment by Jim Campbell

September 26th, 2021

We the People have had it with the media and those who below themselves to be our rulers in congress.

Their days are numbered as is the failed residency of the poser currently living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington D.C.

It does not seem possible that it was just Christmas time last year that the nation was awakening from the doldrums of China virus lock downs and economic disaster.

As the Trump Administration was coming to a close, people were feeling more confident about being able to fend off the virus, vaccines were on the way and the border was relatively secure as the wall was finally being constructed.

What a difference eight months can make! Monday it will be exactly 250 days since Joe Biden claimed the Oval Office.

Through him, his radical puppet masters working behind the scenes have unleashed a barrage of anti-America policies on our country.

It is no exaggeration to say that we are facing an apocalypse ― no less the end of our democratic republic.

I have been saying this for over three years, beginning with the obviously illegal and immoral machinations of the Fascist Democrats to get Donald Trump removed from office.

In The Revelation to John in the New Testament, the apostle sees The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse descended from heaven.

The angel guiding him names them as “Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.” In the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel, these same four horsemen are referred to as “Sword, Famine, Wild Beasts, and Plague.”

But in the Joe Biden era, these horsemen take on a similar but more recognizable aura.

This corrupt career politician, who has used his second son as a bagman for illegal money funneled to him from entities both foreign and domestic for as long as Hunter has been an adult, has released these Four Horsemen on an unsuspecting America: The border Incursion, the economic Catastrophe, the Assault on our families, and the use of the CCP virus Plague to eliminate our constitutional rights.

Let’s take a look at each of these dreaded Horsemen.

1. Incursion. When President Trump left office, the border was more secure than it had been in 50 years. Biden immediately went about dismantling that progress, essentially throwing open the border with Mexico and inviting the world to invade our country.

The result, for all to see in conservative newspapers and nightly on the few remaining honest cable news shows, is nothing less than an unmitigated disaster for the U.S. and our people. Biden stopped construction on the border wall, Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy was rescinded ― with the White House cabal ignoring a Supreme Court order to reinstate it ― and “catch and release” was reinstituted.

Customs and Border Patrol CBP officers have apprehended nearly 1.4 million illegals at the border, almost all of which have been processed for admission, given an order to appear at a Customs and Immigration (ICE) office within 60 days and released them. Most will never show up and will disappear into the interior of the U.S.

This is an unprecedented flood of illegal entries, and Biden is welcoming them as permanent residents. Worse, an untold number of people have been entering the country without detection. Coupled with ongoing legal immigration efforts, the United States of America is being radically and quickly transformed.

There are no China virus tests being administered to these illegals, there are no vaccines required. They are being transported by bus and plane all over the country. Undoubtedly, as people from 120 different countries have been identified at the border, they are carrying some of the new variants like Lambda and Mu, spreading them all over the U.S. while cynically being used by the Regime to change many of the Red States demographics.

Although most citizens living in these areas are opposed to this resettlement, they have been powerless to stop it and the courts, if they ever do rule against the Fascist Biden dictatorship, will be too late to reverse the effects.

2. Catastrophe. Trump’s economic policies were working. We had returned to low unemployment levels, inflation was practically non-existent but the economy was awakening, just as he promised. Biden should have continued those policies. He didn’t. He forced a halt to construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, supposedly on the basis of unproven Fascist Left’s claims of potential pollution.

They lied. Pipelines are far safer than trucking petroleum products into the U.S.. The objective was really to end Trump’s short-lived achievement of U.S. energy independence.

That wasn’t enough for the Biden cabal. His handlers then had him place a moratorium on the issuance of new oil and gas drilling leases on federal territory, both onshore and offshore. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in the Northern District of Louisiana blocked the order in June, or it would be in effect now.

He effectively cut off European markets to any future U.S. return to being an energy exporter by removing Trump sanctions that had prevented the Nord Stream 2 Russian pipeline to Germany to be completed? His excuse? “It was almost complete.” Ironically, so was Keystone XL.

Having successfully destroyed our oil and gas industry in the short term and obviously seeking to make it permanent, Biden’s puppet master then had him demand increased oil production for U.S. import from the OPEC nations amid rising gas prices brought on by the shutdown of Keystone XL But now, any U.S. action perceived by these nations as hostile or even if they simply feel like it, our petroleum supply can be cut off overnight.

Biden has also happily supported radical legislation in Congress that will add to the national debt while spending trillions of dollars that will create severe inflationary woes in our county.

During Biden’s Fascist reign, prices on a wide range of items such as gasoline, lumber, and groceries have rapidly escalated, though some have temporarily come back down. How long that lasts remains to be seen..

Financial experts expect inflation to become a long-term fixture in the U.S. by early- to mid-2022.

In August a so-called “bipartisan infrastructure bill” with a $1.2 trillion price tag passed in the Senate, with the “bipartisanship” being supplied by ten RINO senators who voted for it. Few Republicans in the House or the Senate approve of the measure.

If it passes in the House this coming week, it will prove to be an economic disaster. It includes very little real infrastructure, but it does include tax increases, at least $256 billion in additional federal debt that will exacerbate inflationary pressures, and a grab bag of liberal proposals. The bill advocates zero-emission vehicles, combats “racist” highways, and for good measure uses the word “equity” 64 times.

It sets the stage for an even bigger monstrosity, the “human infrastructure” bill that will cost over $3.5 trillion. It is being advertised as a de facto “Green New Deal” that will include a staggering number of climate change initiatives that will eventually bankrupt the U.S. and end its worldwide posture as the most successful country in history. The chaos the bill will institute is mind-boggling to contemplate.

3. Assault. Crime is exploding in our cities. More and more innocent Americans fall victim to it each day. The battle cry of BLM and Antifa to “defund the police” has been incorporated into the Fascist Democrats agenda. Record numbers of police officers, sheriff’s deputies, state troopers, even firefighters and EMTs are retiring from their jobs rather than face the daily chaos that puts their very lives at risk.

Still more leave because there is always a camera on their backs and 30 seconds of out-of-context video can ruin their careers even if they are not injured or killed. As a result, police departments are understaffed and recruitment is becoming extremely difficult in urban areas that are viewed as being anti-police.

The answer, according to Biden and the Democrats, is always more gun control and never more criminal control. Fascist-backed prosecutors ― funded by America-hater George Soros ― are refusing to charge criminals with crimes and, when they do, making lenient sentence recommendations that put them back on the street, if not today then in a just a few years. A child rapist recently got seven years instead of the 30-40 years the statutes prescribed.

Citizens are unsafe on the streets of our cities, and our children are unsafe in our public-school classrooms. Families are facing hostile environments in schools as teachers are using Critical Race Theory (CRT) to educate students about American history.

Instead of celebrating the greatness of our founding documents and the uniqueness of our system of government, teachers are demonizing our Founding Fathers and casting blame on white Americans for racism and unfair treatment of minorities. In many schools, students are being separated by race, and white students are being made to feel guilty for the color of their skin.

Parents are angry, but too many school boards are committed to the divisive curriculum.

The result is the promotion of a culture among young black people that mirrors the white racist culture of the early 20^th century South in the days of Jim Crow laws, whites using “No Coloreds Allowed” designations for bathrooms, water fountains and restaurants to prevent blacks from intermingling with them.

Today, anyone or any symbol daring to voice an opinion not held by a young black person nearby may be verbally ― and sometimes physically ― assaulted and forced to retreat.

We have come 180 degrees from the ugly days of white racism to be introduced to the new ugly days of black racism. That has been the Fascists’ goal from the beginning of the Trump administration, to divide and conquer America.

4. Plague. The CCP virus has been proven to be no more deadly than the seasonal flu. Its high death rate can be directly attributed to the Fascists browbeating doctors and hospitals from responding to early infections with drugs such as hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, and monoclonals like Regeneron.

It is not hard to conclude that our health bureaucrats at CDC and NIH wanted this virus to spread. Dr. Anthony Fauci even helped fund Chinese research that resulted in the virus outbreak.

Schools are also one of the focal points of the insane battle over how to deal with the China virus pandemic. Teacher unions and Biden officials are touting masks in classrooms, while a growing number of parents are fighting this nonsense at school board meetings across the country.

The physical and mental health impact on our children is a far greater risk to them than the virus.

The Biden administration is not stopping at mask mandates. Two weeks ago he issued questionably constitutional executive orders that require all federal employees ― except Congress and the Postal Service ― to get the vaccine, as well as all private employers with 100 or more workers.

The regime is said to be considering similar mandates for all Americans. The Defense Department is requiring vaccines for all the members of the respective branches. That order was effective September 16.

Whenever he addresses the media, Biden pushes vaccinations on the public. He implies that unvaccinated Americans are not only unpatriotic but also contributing to the deaths of their fellow citizens while at the same time causing our healthcare systems nationwide to “crash.”

All these initiatives are quite disturbing. American citizens have a reasonable expectation to medical privacy and the right to make their own health decisions.

Requiring them to expose their vaccine status is a direct violation of that concept. In a free country, a citizen is not forced to inject any sort of experimental vaccine into his body. Americans have the freedom to say “no,” without any negative repercussions.

Individually, each of the Four Horsemen of Biden’s apocalypse is extremely worrisome. Unfortunately, Americans are facing all four of them simultaneously.

We are dealing with a mentally incompetent president being propped up by an unseen and unknown cabal of men and women who are actually running the country.

We are faced with a biased press, social media sites that censor conservatives and blatantly lie to the public. Corporations have gone “woke,” as has entertainment and Big Technology. Together they are forcing these Fascist policies ― of which hardly any American approves ― on our country.Is

It is crunch time for America, and We The People must stand up to protect our rights, our families, and our futures.

This Biden agenda must be stopped immediately, and we are coming to the point that we need to include the words, “by any means necessary.”

As Thomas Jefferson said, “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort, to protect themselves from tyranny in government.”

God keep us from getting so far down the road to tyranny that we must rise up, but give us strength to do so if we must.

If we are not willing to take those unthinkable but perhaps wholly necessary steps, we will become a Norther American Venezuela.

THE END

Evil Prevails When Good People Only Phone in Their Parts

Comment by Jim Campbell

September 26th, 2021, doing nothing, has replaced watching baseball as our national past time.

Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing. And most of us have done NOTHING for plenty long now.

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But the former Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, was the one who summed up best the Obamas’ politics: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

Right now the fake news and plastic entertainment empire are finalizing preparations to hypnotize the gullible video dependents into helping the left and it’s propagandists completely take down America.

But wait !

But hey, we’ll just have to get it right next time. But no more whining about fake news, stolen elections or outrageous legislation or executive orders. Because it is those, on steroids, that biden & co. have used in killing America.

The Canada Free Oress

By Dave Merrick

September 26, 2021

What’s her face, ‘psaki’, the woman with the ugly red hair who does much of Biden’s lying for him, commented that videos of US Border Patrol Agents slapping at illegal aliens trying to get in our country were “horrific.”

Please see the entire article below.

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They just keep going and going until they are gone

By Jim Campbell

September 26th, 2021

Perhaps Jill Biden said it most succinctly when she noted “When Joe gets tossed, I’m gone.”

“I’m a Dr., I’m not changing his diapers.”

Enough!

Theme Song for Biden Administration. Here.

Joe Biden left the White House on Friday for another few days outside of Washington, as he now regularly runs from the White House every weekend. 

According to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book, Joe Biden reportedly hates living in the White House, describing it as “the grave.”

In the words of 46* chief of staff, Ron Klain, “He doesn’t feel comfortable living in the White House.”

Guess what Joe, “We the People don’t feel comfortable with you living in the White House either!!!

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The left in Washington smells fear

Comment by Jim Campbell

“The Strongest Smell of Fear is Coming From Government” – “It Smells Like Victory, Hold The Line” September 26, 2021

Neil Oliver hits the nail on the head again. 

I cannot recommend watching this monologue highly enough. 

As you have read on these pages, we hold the exact same opinion.

Smelling what on is thinking (Getty Images0

Mr. Oliver takes examples of what is happening in real time, such as Australia, and puts exactly the correct prism in place to consider them.

What Oliver is stating is supported by a basic truth in human nature: ‘Control is a reaction to fear‘. 

As a consequence, the need for control is a conscious reaction to something being feared.   Those who live atop society, in politics or positions of affluence, are becoming increasingly fearful.

Recent references are not limited to COVID lockdowns and arbitrary totalitarian rules put into place. 

The way the government responded to the “yellow vest” movement in France; or the U.K. government efforts to fight Brexit; or the U.S. government response to Donald Trump’s election; these are all examples of those holding power being fearful of the us – a free people.   The elites are fearful, and they will lose.

Enough of this bloody foolishness. It’s time to start acting like Mel Gibson but in real time.

They need left -vs- right. They need identity politics. 

They need class war.  They need racism. They need support from Big Tech.  They need George Soros and the deep state as well as other sordid entities that we may have not become aware at this time.

They need to control the media.  [They are failing to control the message]

They need compartmentalized scrap-grabbers constantly looking down; because if enough people start looking up and seeing through the division, the masses will find unity.

Those who hold tenuous power know the intelligence agencies alone will not be able to protect them from a unified people.   It matters not what they do in the end.

We will win and they will be crushed stunningly in their defeat..

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Update:Trump Rally For Hershel Walker for the U.S. Senate in Georgia

Comment by Jim Campbell

Leave it to former president Trump, he’s rallying the troops for Hershel Walker to become Georgia’s next U.S. Senator.

So very predictable below: They block us from knowledge they don’t want us to understand.

Having Hershel in the U.S. Senate and Donald Trump in the White House with Florida’s Governor

Ron DeSantis would go a long way toward turning our country around.

Go President Trump!

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As an addendum to China’s financial collapse take a look at its Constitution

By Jim Campbell

September 25th, 2021

As yes, the wonders of living in a totalitarian dictatorship.

See the Chinese Constitution here.

Listen to complete B.S. below.

The The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the founding and ruling political party of modern China, officially known as the People’s Republic of China.

The CCP has maintained a political monopoly since its founding a century ago, overseeing the country’s rapid economic growth and rise as a global power.

As the party marks its one hundredth anniversary in 2021, it faces challenges abroad and at home, including economic inequality.[Source]

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FBI interrogation techniques

By Jim Campbell

September 25th, 2021

One former FBI, Joe Navarro, agents approach to the interrogation of a potential suspect.

It’s estimated that as much as 80% of our interaction with others is through nonverbal communication, or body language. And the vast majority of the nonverbal cues we display are driven by our subconscious mind – they are important indications of how we are feeling and what we’re thinking.

Joe Navarro has been studying nonverbal behavior for the past 45 years. Twenty-five of these were spent in the FBI catching spies.​

Today Joe is an internationally recognized expert, consultant, author, and gifted lecturer, in the interpretation of nonverbal behavior.

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Chinese technology company – several branches of the federal government have purchased drones from the firm under Biden’s Administration

Comment by Jim Campbell

September 25th, 2021

Despite the Trump administration blacklisting DJI,

SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd. or Shenzhen DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd. in full, more popularly known as its trade name DJI, which stands for Da-Jiang Innovations, is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, with manufacturing facilities throughout the world.

The Chinese government has been stealing U.S. Secrets as part of their ongoing propaganda war with the U.S. and likely any industrialized countries.

China won’t be going on a conventionally war footing anytime soon because they are broke financially.

DJI Innovations – formerly Da Jiang Innovations Science – currently leads the world’s market drone market, first catching the attention of U.S. intelligence officials in 2015. The organization has admitted complying with Beijing’s data requests, leading the U.S. Army to ban their use in 2017, citing cyber vulnerabilities. 

The office of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles sent a memo stating officials have “moderate confidence” DJI’s commercial drones and software are “providing US critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.”

Now, America is buying these drones again, giving the Chinese Communist Party yet another entry into U.S. federal infrastructure. [More Treason!]

The purchases follow the appointment of two high-profile Biden campaign officials who previously worked for a consulting firm lobbying for DJI: Senior Spokesman for Biden Inaugural Committee Matt Hill, and Director of State Communication Meira Bernstein.

Following stints at the Global Strategy Group, Hill began serving as the Senior Associate Communications Director, and Bernstein is now Deputy Assistant Secretary for Media Operations at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Deleted client lists from the Global Strategy Group’s website reveal the firm working on behalf of DJI.

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CNN Has Come to Jesus Moment Over Biden’s Failing Presidency

Comment by Jim Campbell

September 24th, 2021

CNN’s anchors and hosts are shown immediately below.

They too realize that their own jobs and futures are tied to the failure in the Oval Office.

Essentially, they have nothing to report but more coverups and lies.

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That’s not going to get it.

Biden’s anti-Midas touch is fracturing the Democratic Party.

By: Mark Angelides

September 24, 2021

 

In a rare display of media honesty, the pro-Biden Fourth Estate is making a subtle shift away from the constant partisan praise back toward actual analysis.

With President Joe Biden seemingly beset at every turn by crises of his own creation, it may be that the media finally decided that naptime is over.

Or perhaps any shred of credibility left remaining was thought best not to be squandered informing readers that the sky was no longer blue and water was wet no more.

One such outlet that appears to be going through Damascene conversion is none other than CNN.

In a rare glimpse of insight, the writers at the self-appointed “most trusted name in news” set out precisely the issues facing the belabored president and why his situation is not likely to improve any time soon.

Welcome Back to Reality

CNN pulled few punches detailing the long list of issues, from the humiliation of the Afghanistan withdrawal to the current efforts to create a modern-day New Deal or Great Society spending plan. But one area in particular where the outlet focused its spotlight was on the inability of this administration to create a unified front within its own party.

The Democratic Party is diligently trying to live up to its aspiration to be a big tent movement. With radical leftists and self-styled socialists on the one side, and the progressive-lite on the other, crafting an across-the-board consensus was never going to be easy. Yet the chasm that now exists between the warring factions appears almost as wide as the one between Republicans and Democrats. In fact, in terms of policy and spending, some would argue that there is a lot more crossover between moderates from either party than between the extremes of Biden’s own.

A Spending Legacy?

Of chief concern for President Biden and his congressional leadership team is passing the latest round of spending bills; one a bipartisan infrastructure proposal and the other, a much larger “human infrastructure” plan. These two bills total at least $4.5 trillion. While it was initially felt that the obstruction to their passage would come solely from the GOP, infighting and demands within the Democratic Party are on the brink of derailing both.

Democrat operative and former presidential aide, John Podesta, gave a sobering assessment that was half analysis and half plea. He wrote in a memo, “If Democrats care about our nation’s future and well-being, this is the legislative package we need. No excuses. This is it.” The truth bombs continued to drop with his warning:

“We will not secure the full $3.5 trillion investment. It’s time for Democrats to unite in finding the path forward. Similarly, to those Democrats who only favor the bipartisan infrastructure bill, know this: you are either getting both bills or neither — and the prospect of neither is unconscionable.”

The Beating Heart of the Matter

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

It is no secret whatsoever that the Democratic Party sees spending as the best method of ramping up the flagging economy, whether that largesse comes in the form of infrastructure projects, cash handouts, or expansions to existing benefits.

But this latest demand for taxpayer cash is more than just primer for the business pump, and that has some elected politicos worried about their own future.

Should the two spending bills pass, the president will have succeeded in a once-in-a-generation effort to restructure how the United States operates. Joe Biden’s legacy will be secured.

But what of the senators and representatives who have to face their electorates in 2022? While some voters will be thrilled that Biden has expanded the government footprint, many others will not.

CNN actually sums up the problem succinctly:

“Some moderates in the House fear this price tag will cost them their seats in 2022 with Republicans favored to win back control and relishing a classic spending-focused campaign assault against Democrats.

“But progressives say they will refuse to back Biden’s infrastructure bill with Republicans — another central plank of his presidency — unless the spending bill passes too. If one half of this complex legislative maneuver Democratic leaders are using to bring the party fails, the whole edifice could crumble.”

A Rock and Hard Place

With the 2022 midterms casting an ominous shadow over Capitol Hill, Democrats are only too aware that this may be their last chance at significant policy-making before the campaign season starts in earnest.

The spending and infrastructure bills will either be a victory that can be paraded or an albatross that they must hide in shame as they face an electorate that gave them a shot at the trifecta.

Sadly for the Dems, the GOP knows this, too. Lawmakers can expect no quarter and no support from the minority, and with Democratic senators and representatives trying to maintain their razor-slim majorities, perhaps President Biden will find little help within his own fractured party.