# The Biden Administration - the first 1,500 days \[NOT an Afghanistan discussion\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 8, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057 "2020-11-08T15:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 36
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/702 "2021-04-28T00:57:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The President’s and Vice President’s official portraits have been unveiled - lookin’ good! Yeah, just wait till August, when the ShitGibbon will be restored to power. So some guy says. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/703 "2021-04-28T03:28:23Z")
Well I have something to look forward post Covid when I get back into the office. No longer will I have to pass by [Donald’s Backpfeifengesicht](https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/official-presidential-portrait-donald-trump-8x10) everyday as I go to work. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/704 "2021-04-28T12:44:46Z")
> **[CNN Poll: Majority of Americans approve of Biden and his priorities in first...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/politics/cnn-poll-biden-approval-100-days/index.html)** > > On the cusp of the 100-day mark of Joe Biden's presidency, a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds 53% of Americans approve of the way he is handling the job and say he has had the right priorities, and 59% say he is doing a good job keeping his... ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/705 "2021-04-28T14:31:35Z")
> **[Senate to Start Undoing Trump’s Rollbacks Using Once Obscure Law - BNN Bloomberg](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/senate-to-start-undoing-trump-s-rollbacks-using-once-obscure-law-1.1596181)** > > Senate Democrats will begin using a special procedure to undo parts of Donald Trump’s regulatory agenda Wednesday, starting by rescinding a measure that made it harder for the Environmental Protection Agency to limit leaks of the powerful greenhouse... > [@](#): > > The vote on the methane rule is the first of several that Democrats plan to use under the Congressional Review Act. That 1996 law allows lawmakers to rescind federal regulations passed in the waning days of a presidential administration as long as they act within a few months of a new Congress. > [@](#): > > It had been used only once before 2017 when Republicans, led by then-President Donald Trump, used it to repeal 14 Obama-era rules including one that limited the ability of the mentally ill to buy firearms to another forcing oil companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. pfffft Trump’s “methane rule”. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/706 "2021-04-28T15:38:31Z")
Biden is going to address both houses of Congress tomorrow (a reduced crowd, for sure). Any bets on whether even one Republican applauds a single word that Biden says? Or will it be a total shutout from the Pub side? I say it will. Any Pub who claps even once or looks like they wanted to or fantasized about clapping will get his knuckles soundly rapped by Unca Mitch. And they will have to write “I love kissing Donald’s ass better than anything” 100 times on the ~~black~~ whiteboard. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/707 "2021-04-28T16:28:52Z")
Because this isn’t going to be a full house, like usual, I imagine that the primary Repubs who will be there will be the leadership. They’ll probably clap a few times just out of habit, but who knows. The true GQP nutjobs probably won’t be in attendance; just as well, as some of them are likely looking to pull a Joe Wilson “You Lie” stunt. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/708 "2021-04-28T17:38:56Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > pfffft Trump’s “methane rule”. Louder than that. Phbphbphbphbttt! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/709 "2021-04-28T23:24:32Z")
From the _Delaware News-Journal_: > **[Delaware man to deliver first joint address to Congress Wednesday night](https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/joe-biden/2021/04/28/biden-joint-address-congress-delaware/4869838001/)** > > President Joe Biden, just before his 100th day in office, will deliver his first address to on Wednesday night. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/710 "2021-04-29T00:03:23Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Delaware man to deliver first joint address to Congress Wednesday night Delaware man does better than Florida man. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/711 "2021-04-29T00:18:38Z")
Definitely! > [@Florida Man charged with stealing Speaker's podium](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-man-charged-with-stealing-speakers-podium/930157): > > Thought it might be useful to have a thread to track the steady grinding of the wheels of the law following the insurrection at the Capitol: And then there’s Desk Man, who has got the US Postal Police on his tail, for stealing mail from the Speaker’s office: And there’s the West Virginia Legislator, who was charged after posting video of himself in the riots, and who has apparently resigned his position: And Horny Fur Man has been arrested: These are the easy, stupid, ones of course;… ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/712 "2021-04-29T01:10:11Z")
What I wouldn’t give, just once, for the President to say to the audience “Please, hold your applause until the end.” You could probably do this thing in half the time. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/713 "2021-04-29T01:56:24Z")
That’d be self-defeating. This is a political event. Hearing approval of what a politician is proposing or saying is a key part of it. Just look at Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/714 "2021-04-29T02:00:21Z")
I don’t grudge Joe his brief moment in the sun. He’s worked his ass off for the past 100 days and deserves a few meager rounds of applause. I hope he really enjoys them. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/715 "2021-04-29T02:15:39Z")
His address to the joint session of Congress was pretty good. Aside from a statistical gaffe early on about the child tax credit under/over 6, it was otherwise quite comprehensive. Surprised to see some (R.) stand and applause occasionally, like over the climate, or Jordan over police welfare. Dece! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/716 "2021-04-29T02:15:53Z")
_Damn_ good to hear an actual presidential president speak! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/717 "2021-04-29T02:53:30Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Surprised to see some (R.) stand and applause occasionally, like over the climate, or Jordan over police welfare. I’m stunned! I guess Mitch will have them in the woodshed tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/718 "2021-04-29T03:12:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I guess Mitch will have them in the woodshed tomorrow I think you give McConnell too much credit for how much influence he wields (or even tries to wield) over his members. There have been few strictly partisan votes in the Senate so far – Harris has only had to break four ties so far, which is just one more than Pence had to break at this point in the Trump Administration. Besides, McConnell and Republicans aren’t looking to nakedly, publicly oppose the President on everything he does. The goal is to undermine him where it matters but not be so obvious about their opposition that voters blame them for his failures. So they’ll applaud the typical pabulum in a Presidential speech about coming together and healing the nation’s wounds, and they’ll make “counter offers” on things like infrastructure that make it look like they’re seriously engaging in good-faith negotiations. All while doing their damnedest to cut him off at the knees. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/719 "2021-04-29T08:30:50Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Delaware man does better than Florida man. _Delaware Man, Delaware Man Delaware Man hates Florida Man They have a vote, Delaware wins Delaware Man_ ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/720 "2021-04-29T12:09:10Z")
_golf clap_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/721 "2021-04-29T14:00:34Z")
Good news on the economy, too: > **[US economy soared in the first quarter, growing at a 6.4% rate | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/economy/gdp-first-quarter-growth-pandemic/index.html)** > > America is on the path to recovery and economic growth is rampant. But the pandemic recession has been severe and we're still not done growing our way out of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057.md?page=37)