Current Events > Biden administration to create position to reach conservatives

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/biden-administration-will-create-position-to-reach-conservatives

The Biden administration plans to create a position to find common ground with conservatives, said Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser and director of the Office of Public Engagement for the President-Elect. [Antifar's note: this guy is noteworthy for taking a ton of fossil fuel money https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/526405-progressive-group-slams-biden-white-house-pick-over-fossil-fuels]

Right now Im trying to set up the office and Im actually looking at establishing a position that reaches out to conservatives -- because its about moving forward. We cannot stay where we are, Richmond said during the Wall Street Journals CEO Council on Monday night.

He said the offices goal was to forge connections with all Americans, regardless of their political affiliation. Were not elected just to help Democrats or urban cities or minorities, he said. We were elected to help this entire country and that means reaching out to conservatives, that means reaching out to rural areas, reaching out to people who didnt vote for us.

President-elect Joe Biden named Richmond, a campaign co-chair, to head the Office of Public Engagement last month. On Monday, Biden appointed him as one of five co-chairs of his inaugural committee.

Part of Richmonds mandate is to help the incoming Biden administrations relations with Republicans in Congress. He said he would work to create a demand in the country to make politicians work across the aisle and to work together.

He said one area of agreement could be infrastructure. The famous words are, theres no such thing as a Democratic bridge or a Republican bridge, he said at the Journal event.

Congress, he added, should work on a very quick infrastructure bill to put people to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure making the country, greener and cleaner.

Richmond, who will resign his seat representing most of New Orleans in Congress, also said that part of his mandate would be private sector engagement and to serve as a conduit straight into the White House for chief executive officers.

Nobodys going to persuade me that somehow, some way that CEOs in this country are bad people, he said. Business leaders, he added, are creating jobs and they deserve a seat at the table.

Richmond added that business would find an administration that is willing to listen and didnt intend to be punitive.

We will just do those things we find that are absolutely necessary to do and if that means raising the corporate tax rate to achieve infrastructure investment, which is important to both business and to normal everyday citizens, I think that that may be some middle ground that everybody can support, he said at the CEO Council.

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If dems win georgia then fuck that, i say rule with an iron fist and put trump and all his cronies in jail

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i prefer the current climate where we all talk about killing each other!

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Cool. We need to relearn the lost art setting aside political differences to work together >_>

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CEOs dont already have a seat at the table? LMAO what is this nonsense.

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Lol

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I'm pretty sure there's already a shortage of elementary school teachers.

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Maybe add "How to win friends and Influence people" to public school reading curriculum?

For some people, it's just good advice.

For those who find the author and his actions reprehensible, you get insight into how someone you can't abide thinks.

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monkmith posted...

i prefer the current climate where we all talk about killing each other!

pretty sure the right wants to kill any not right members

CADE FOSTER posted...

pretty sure the right wants to kill any not right members

Pretty sure you're wrong.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

pretty sure the right wants to kill any not right members

wat

Biden needs to learn to be pragmatic. Focus on things you can actually accomplish, rather than these pie in the sky ideas about winning over Republicans.

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Obama wasted 8 years trying to reach out they dont want to work with dems Mitch thrives on obstruction

NeonOctopus posted...

Cool. We need to relearn the lost art setting aside political differences to work together >_>

Who's this "we" person, this divisiveness is purely because of Republicans, Democrats have been trying to work with these people for decades.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

Obama wasted 8 years trying to reach out they dont want to work with dems Mitch thrives on obstruction

To be fair, it's not like Biden would be familiar with the Obama administration's efforts to work with Senate Republicans.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

Obama wasted 8 years trying to reach out they dont want to work with dems Mitch thrives on obstruction

This post is better than your first one.

It's been twelve years since 2008 and Republicans and conservatives have been open and blatant about their desire to obstruct anything that's not them getting their way.

They do not want democracy. They want control and their own affluence.

Democrats, liberals, and the left are not the ones that need to do the reaching out to find common ground.

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"new government leadership attempts to takes steps to re-unify fractured populace"
"fuck that"

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FrozenPie posted...

wat

Maga million march signs said they were coming for blacks and native americans dont pretend you dont know

This is a typical conservative gathering, can't communicate with that.

VitalGetPrank posted...

Democrats have been trying to work with these people for decades.

By slipping ridiculous poison pills into almost every bill they write up.

"Hey, want infrastructure? I guess you'll also have to accept strict gun control. It's in the same bill, there's nothing we can do about it :^)"

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bknight posted...

This is a typical conservative gathering, can't communicate with that.

No masks big brain people

Gobstoppers12 posted...

By slipping ridiculous poison pills into almost every bill they write up.

"Hey, want infrastructure? I guess you'll also have to accept strict gun control. It's in the same bill, there's nothing we can do about it :^)"

You'll have to post the actual example on this one.

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CyricZ posted...

This post is better than your first one.

It's been twelve years since 2008 and Republicans and conservatives have been open and blatant about their desire to obstruct anything that's not them getting their way.

They do not want democracy. They want control and their own affluence.

Democrats, liberals, and the left are not the ones that need to do the reaching out to find common ground.

so the alternative is what? ignore it? purge?

49% of america votes republican.

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The Trent posted...

"new government leadership attempts to takes steps to re-unify fractured populace"
"fuck that"

It's pretty funny to formally have someone who is technically a government bureaucrat whose explicit role is (might be?) "republican whisperer"

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monkmith posted...

so the alternative is what? ignore it? purge?

49% of america votes republican.

They haven't gotten more than 47 percent since Bush 04

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The only way to fix republicans is to get rid of most if not all the current ones and elect new ones that are not shit.

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Unless this outreach position focuses on locking McConnell underground somewhere far, far away from the Senate it will be a waste of time from the start.

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Intro2Logic posted...

They haven't gotten more than 47 percent since Bush 04

well god that's a big difference we can definitely purge that!

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Ah yes lets spend 8 years caving to the GOP to earn GOP points then when he tries to cash in his 10 trillion GOP points he can be told he only has enough points for either a Tootsie Roll or a plastic spider ring.

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Disgusting

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The Trent posted...

"new government leadership attempts to takes steps to re-unify fractured populace"
"fuck that"

When he talks about outreach to CEO's I'm skeptical that this is really about unifying any sort of populace
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I don't imagine anything of mention happening unless these types of "unifying" moves happen, at least on the face of things. There's very little chance of democrats actually pulling the legislative branch. And if you attempt a "fuck you republicans accept our terms since we won presidency" it seems like the only correct political move for Republicans is to obstruct.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's unlikely that we'll get anything other than obstruction, but I think if there's any chance of anything else, these types of moves are necessary.

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What don't Dems get about not aligning with devils

Fuck the fascists and fuck trying to integrate them

Go outdo conservatives on fiscal responsibility. It'll be hilarious and awesome.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Go outdo conservatives on fiscal responsibility. It'll be hilarious and awesome.

Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans

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Balrog0 posted...

Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans

In the sense that the budget was last balanced under Clinton's watch, sure.

Balrog0 posted...

Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans

its only fiscal responsibility when republicans do it. when democrats raise taxes on the criminally under-taxed to pay for the deficit the last republican government rang up its called theft...

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Questionmarktarius posted...

In the sense that the budget was last balanced under Clinton's watch, sure.

There's also the matter of the yearly deficit which is lowered every year a Democrat is in office and raised when a Republican is in office.

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monkmith posted...

so the alternative is what? ignore it? purge?

49% of america votes republican.

According to this last election, 32% of (eligible) America votes Republican.

The alternative is to ignore the conservatives and implement the needed changes to our structures that conservatives are intent on destroying and prevent them from doing so without punishment.

If we can implement needed changes and create improvements for the lives of the average American, it won't matter how much the Republicans complain because they'll never win another election.

Then they will be the ones to have to change in order to reach out to the rest of America.

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I laugh how large swathes of this Republic really view the boringly centrist Democratic party as far left lmao.


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Cut it out.

Man, I hate this. We voted against Trump because we didn't want Trump or the Republicans in place. Not because we want to maintain restrictions on our government and to maintain the lack of public aid that we need. Republicans have been pushing Trumps 'ideas' for four years without lending a single ear to Democrats. I hope Joe realizes that once Mitch fucks him over when the Democrats lose the Georgia Senate, that all this catering was for nothing at all.

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Waste of time and money. Conservatives have proven over the last 6 years we shouldn't even dignify them with any kind of serious response.

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I'm all for trying to deprogram fascists but coddling them ain't gonna do it.

Also, there has to be a point after conservatives spit in your god damn face for like the 10th time for trying to reach out where you just set them aside and maybe help other communities first? I'm fucking sick of the coal miners. They don't want to change. Help the people who want help first.

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They all should just give the money back and start over. They have all proven they aren't capable of handling it. How they got there and everything.

CyricZ posted...

The alternative is to ignore the conservatives and implement the needed changes to our structures that conservatives are intent on destroying and prevent them from doing so without punishment.

How?

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expectation: progressives and conservatives will work together in biden's administration!
reality: neoliberals and neoconservatives work together in biden's administration

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