Did you know? President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act has many thrilling aspects. No, really.
Start with its name. We cats saw some progressives on social media criticizing it as lame or insipid. But what could be better than forcing Republicans to vote against reducing inflation? That's an election-season conundrum that we're happy to inflict on them, because as Biden pointed out at the signing, not a single member of the GOP in Congress supported the bill. HAHAHAHAHA.
We also love the fact that it's just the latest accomplishment in a long list of Biden wins: gun safety, the PACT Act, $280 billion for semiconductor research and production, Postal Service reform, infrastructure, more judges confirmed since JFK (including record numbers of women and people of color), the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and a national holiday for Juneteenth. Still on deck: codifying marriage equality — which could prove to be a significantly bipartisan vote — and reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887, a key to preserving the integrity of our elections.
In short, Lyndon Johnson must be looking down from heaven (or up from hell) and saying, "Damn, son."
But the best news of all is that Team Biden — the President, and we assume, Pete Buttigieg, Jennifer Granholm, and other equally fabulous spokespeople — will fan out in the coming days and weeks across the country to sell what the Administration has accomplished.
This is so critical, and so reassuring. Because if President Obama had barnstormed the nation back in 2010 — explaining to Americans what the Affordable Care Act that he had just signed would do for them — we believe the midterms that year would have been mighty different. We still fault Obama for that, but at least it seems that Joe Biden has learned from the experience. Which makes us PURR.
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