Thanks to Jim S.
Rex Huppke USA TODAY
Far-right Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene might have accidentally realized Joe Biden is a good president.
The predominantly ludicrous lawmaker from Georgia did Biden an unexpected – and surely unplanned – solid this weekend in a speech at the conservative Turning Point Action conference in Florida, telling Republicans the Democratic president is fiendishly attempting to make people’s lives better.
She compared Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society,” an array of programs from the mid-1960s aimed at combatting poverty in America. Those programs included Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, along with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks linking Biden to popular programs like Medicare will hurt him?
Now, I’m just a humble newspaper columnist, but it strikes me as a curious political strategy to compare the legislation of a president you despise and want to impeach with some of the most broadly popular legislation in American history.
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey from March found more than 80% of Americans have either a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” opinion of Medicare, and 76% feel the same about Medicaid.
As Greene talked about President Johnson, she said, dismissively: “His BIG socialist programs were the Great Society … big government programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and welfare.”
THAT MONSTER! Surely no politician wants to be associated with helping address education or rural poverty or transportation!
Surely the last thing voters want is a president like Biden who is – GASP! – helping Americans
Greene continued making the case for Biden’s reelection: “Now LBJ had the Great Society, but Joe Biden had Build Back Better, and he still is working on it, the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete.”