U.S. Rep. Angie Craig on Tuesday would not say if she would support President Joe Biden if he runs for a second term in 2024 and urged a “new generation” of Democratic leadership.
[image_credit]Stefani Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS[/image_credit][image_caption]Rep. Dean Phillips[/image_caption]
Craig was referring to her colleague, 3rd District Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democrat who made national news last week by telling WCCO radio that he wouldn’t support Biden in 2024.
“I think the country would be well-served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up,” Phillips said.
Craig said it was Biden’s decision whether or not to run. But when asked if she would support Biden if he did run, Craig said: “I would say we need new leaders in Washington up and down the ballot in the Democratic Party.”
[image_credit]Kistner for Congress[/image_credit][image_caption]Tyler Kistner[/image_caption]
In the interview, Craig praised many major elements of the new spending deal struck by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pump about $370 billion into energy and efforts to address climate change, raise taxes on corporations, allow the federal government to negotiate drug prices for people on Medicare, reduce the budget deficit and more.
Republicans have attacked the deal as more spending and tax increases while the economy may be in a recession and amid inflation. Craig said she wants to see the final bill, but said the framework was “fiscally responsible” and said “the idea that we’re gonna ask billion dollar companies to pay a minimum 15 percent tax, that’s just good policy.”
“I think what we have to start with is this is gonna reduce the deficit by $300 billion or so,” Craig said. She added the bill had provisions aimed at helping farmers, including an extension of a biodiesel tax credit and money to expand biofuels infrastructure.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that Craig has not yet endorsed the Manchin-Schumer spending plan but supports several key provisions.
Yes – We need to tax corporations because people cannot afford tax increases during the Biden recession and the Biden inflationary times.
Or…as citizens of this country, living here, doing business here, reaping the benefits of our infrastructure, our courts, our police and fire, EVERYONE needs to pay their fair share, including and especially resource draining corporations. Remember, Corporations are people my friend.
It is not the messenger that is failing, it is the message. When your platform is for “total green energy now” and not a single major metropolitan area is even close to 50% capable of getting off of coal, natural gas or oil,folks wonder who’s in charge. When you print money and give it away like crazy in the name “emergency”, you will devalue the dollar and inflation will follow. Hard to sell that one. When you have a southern border being overrun by illegal immigrants, Mexican cartels and drug mules but you tell everyone it is secure, you have issues.
It is not who is telling Americans that things are just fine, it is what Americans see and feel for themselves that matters. Biden and Harris have been a disaster and even the Democrats see it but their policies are even worse!!
I suppose if what you write really were the “message”, or were even marginally accurate, it might be a problem.
Fortunately, however, your litany of disasters is entirely a manufactured reality of the Rightwing Noise Machine, so an accurate message can still be crafted, and those who are not fatally committed to viewing all things through a “conservative” ideological filter can judge between the two realities. The Dem message will have the added benefit of being (substantially) true!
“When your platform is for “total green energy now” ”
Um, the Manchin Schumer deal includes opening fed lands for oil & gas leases. This seems to contradict your characterization of the Biden platform.
Though I’m still left wondering why the people complaining loudest about rising gas prices are most resistant to alternative technology. Oil, gas & coal are essentially solar energy stored for millions of years. Migrating to renewables cuts out the middleman!
We need to pass a constitutional amendment establishing minimum and maximum ages for President, Vice Presidents, Members of Congress and the Supreme Court.
The minimum age for US House members should be 35, for President and US Senate members 40 and Supreme Court members 45. Younger people can get experience and create records at the local and state levels and through their careers.
There should a standard retirement age of 75 for all. Presidents have term limits – two elected terms. House members could serve up to 20 terms, Senators four terms and justices at most 30 years. Justice like military service – a 30 year is enough.
I like the idea if stagger 18 year terms for Scotus.
Long enough for any one person to dictate law.
If we can’t produce one qualified justice evert two.years we deserve to fail.
Oh wait, we can’t seem to produce one quality president every 4 years now!
I would reduce thennber of consecutive terms they could serve, and then they must be out of office a set number of terms. If they want to run in ten years again, at least it stops the power of incumbents and still allows exceptional people to serve again.
Works in many private organizations
The difference being that the government is not a private organization, and those private organizations are accountable only to owners/shareholders, not the public at large.
One of the most ageist and anti-democratic ideas I’ve seen in a long time.
Is the age minimum (35) for POTUS also ageist?
The rats are scrambling from the sinking ship. Anything to stay in office. Maybe we should assess them on their accomplishments during the last two election cycles. But then if you look they make a lot of noise about bills introduced which ultimately died, or co sponsoring bill that others introduced. We all know anyone can co sponsor any bill introduced which amounts to nothing.
These canidates have accomplished little or nothing. Craig has introduced 60 bills and it appears only 2 have passed the house and ZERO have become law. There were a couple of ammendments to bills that were passed by voice vote. Total bills passed zero.
As for phillips, he too has introduced 60 bills and resolutions of which one resolution passed by a voice vote and two bills became law. Those bills, H.R.7010— 116th Congress amounts to editing an existing bill. Nothing original, just another housekeeping bill.
To amend the Small Business Act and the CARES Act to modify certain provisions
related to the forgiveness of loans under the paycheck protection program, to
allow recipients of loan forgiveness under the paycheck protection program to
defer payroll taxes, and for other purposes.
His other bill H.R.772 — 117th Congress was to change the name of the Wayzata post office building to Jim Ramstad Post Office. Just another housekeeping bill done to honor the former congressman.
Maybe both these individuals need to be judged on what they have accomplished during their time in congress. They are throwing their president under the bus (not that he doesn’t deserve it) but this is desperation on both their parts. Run from the disaster of biden. Check for yourself
https://www.congress.gov/member/dean-phillips/P000616?r=62&q=%7B%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D
https://www.congress.gov/member/angie-craig/C001119?q=%7B%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D
It is this divisiveness from Dems that undermines our electability.
I understand Biden’s popularity is similar to the negative popularity of trump, but Biden is not divisive. He has worked more to help us with affordable life than even Obama.
But…an age limit would be good, not only for the presidency, but especially our justices and politicians.
It kind of humorous reading repub attacks on him regarding inflation and gas prices, especially considering they’re higher in the rest of the world. But that is the inanity of low knowledge repubs who no longer appear to value our democracy, much less facts and reality.
Analogous to your crowd blaming a world wide pandemic on trump.
Several of the usual suspects here called it the trump pandemic, but am sure you will deny it, or claim false equivalency. The lefties hypocrisy is somehow worse than the Q crowd since the left claims to be more educated
A pox on us all
In other words, you’re telling us Greg that trump and repubs preached safe during the pandemic…which they actually refused endangering even their children… and this pandemic would have been minimized had you repubs cared one iota for others.
It’s disappointing there are so many misinformed repubs who are the real followers of QAnon. The GOP was once factual and logical and it’s disappointing how they are so filled with misinformation and hate.
I used to love discussions with them until they went Full QAnon becoming the GQP. It’s rare today to have factual and logical discussions with repubs who also chose violence and the violent coup attempt.
“Analogous to your crowd blaming a world wide pandemic on trump.”
First, while I agree that the former President does not deserve capitalization, protocol is protocol.
Second, while I’m sure that, in the fullness of things there are those who blame Trump for the existence of COVID, they are far less numerous than the Republicans who believe the whole thing was a hoax. Trump is to blame for his ineffectual response that allowed the virus to spread quickly and mutate, making the virus itself a moving target. What do you expect from someone whose initial response is that the whole thing was exaggerated to make him look bad?
“The lefties hypocrisy is somehow worse than the Q crowd since the left claims to be more educated”
Except that the Q crowd is a major force in the Republican Party. The lefty conspiracy theorists are largely left at the margins.
Of course, the instant an elected official gives notice they are not running again, they become a lame duck, to a great extent wasting the rest of the term to which the people elected them.
If Biden isn’t going to run again, he shouldn’t announce it until he has to.
Standard retirement age would create the same problem, and others as well. For example, it would likely have prevented Mondale, 74, from running against Norm Coleman after Wellstone perished in a plane crash. (Too bad he lost — by something like 2 percentage points. Man of tremendous knowledge, experience and wisdom.) At the time, Mondale was the only Democrat who could have run a respectable campaign on such short notice.
Yes, that was an unusual situation, but my point is there can be good albeit unusual reasons to elect an older person; they may be just what is needed. I think that Biden’s (age-related) respectability, experience and judgment — his father-like image — made him the just the person to win against Trump, contrasting with Trump’s erratic, irresponsible, uninformed roller-coaster conduct.
Currently the minimum age for president is 35, 25 for the House, 30 for the Senate. No minimum age for Supreme Court.
Medically/physiologically speaking, people don’t even reach adulthood until about 26. And such youth precludes having much life experience?
Remember that those ages were written into the document at a time when average life expectancy was under 40 years. So the Framers were definitely expecting that elected US officials would have some significant “life experience”. But they also likely expected we wouldn’t be treating the provisions they wrote in 1789 as unchallengable gospel and would instead routinely be amended with the times. Sadly, no!
Infant mortality rate was over 30%, which drove down life expectancy. Many people lived into their 60’s and 70’s.
If Craig will not support Biden for another term, I would dearly like to have her list of other possible candidates…….
I only hope that Reps. Angie Craig and Dean Phillips will also not support making Speaker Pelosi the Speaker again in 2023 as they have done previously. In the interest of having “younger leadership”. Perhaps they will weigh in on Senate Majority Leader Shumer for the same reason. We can only hope, or the next two years under total Democrat control will be even worse than these first two.
Well, control (sort of) of the elected branches anyway. But not “total control” of the federal government, after the minority faction Repub party packed a democratically-illegitimate “conservative” super-majority onto the Supreme Court, whose members are dedicated to the proposition that government by the majority (Dem) party is per se illegitimate and “unconstitutional”.