Harry Bosch
Contributor
I wouldn't call the Afghanistan withdraw "especially successful". It was messy and chaotic. As most withdraws are. But I agree with you that he did it, and the US is probably in a better position to be done with Afghanistan and out of there. The stated purpose of the strategic reserve is to "... SPR, the world's largest supply of emergency crude oil was established primarily to reduce the impact of disruptions in supplies of petroleum products and to carry out obligations of the United States under the international energy program." I'd say that we had some disruptions in the supply chain!The Afghanistan withdrawal was especially successful. Maybe Norwegians can give him the Nobel Peace Prize for that.He may go down as one of our greatest foreign policy presidents.
Yes, he did pass some good bills. However, what bill(s) do you think he will able to pass in the three weeks (not counting the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's) remaining in this Congress?He's the first president to do something about the supply chain (the chips). He got an infrastructure bill passed. I think that he'll pass several important bills during the upcoming lame duck session that will be incredibly important.
And how exactly did he do that? Other than by draining the strategic reserve which is not supposed to be drained to score political points ahead of an election.And now he's brought the price of gas down substantially despite an Europe war and the supply chain mess.
I would not go that far for sure. Like almost all politicians, he is a very mixed bag.I think that we all should join Derec and sing "for he's a golly good fellow" to praise Biden!
Regarding important bills going before the lame duck the huge one is the Revising the Electoral Count act. This is vital. Stunning that republicans are against it. But this bill would prevent future coups like what Trump had planned in 2020. They might also pass equal marriage protection laws, Ukraine funding, and of course our favorite cause: helping the DACA people.
Of course my above post was being ironic. I was picking on conservatives blaming Biden for high gas prices. The fact is that presidents have very little power to control the price of oil/gas.