Mar 16, 2020

Bernie Forces Joe Biden into Corner, Pounds Him on Social Security, Medicare, Veterans' Cuts — Biden Lies in Response

'C'mon Joe, why don't you tell the truth here?'


"C'mon, Joe, you were. You’re an honest guy. Why don’t you just tell the truth here? We all make mistakes. ... You have been on the floor of the Senate time and time again talking about the need to cut Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ programs. Is that true or is that not true?"

So said Bernie Sanders, raking Joe Biden over the coals for Biden's long advocacy for cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans benefits at a debate broadcast from a CNN television studio in Washington, D.C. by CNN and Univision last night.

Joe Biden offered a denial, though Biden has been advocating the cuts for decades.

The debate exchange was devastating, should be the stuff of endless media repetition because of the spectacular quality of Biden's subsequent dissembling and the clear video evidence disconfirming Biden on video. But the media today is trying in vain to play defense for Biden.

Said Biden at the debate, "No, I did not talk about the need to cut any of those programs."

Sanders did not let Biden off the hook.

Bernie Sanders: Let me ask you a question, Joe. You’re right here with me. Have you been on the floor of the Senate, you were in the Senate for a few years, time and time again talking about the necessity, with pride, about cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting veterans programs?

Joe Biden: No.

Bernie Sanders: You never said that?

Joe Biden: No.

Bernie Sanders: All right, America, go to the website right now, go to the YouTube right now

In realty-land, Joe Biden has time and again pushed for social insurance cuts, and Biden has been lying about his record since Iowa.

Joe Biden has engineered a clumsy parade of lies, as termed by the journalist Krystal Ball.

Watch the YouTube videos and tell me Joe Biden should be president.
The truth from Joe Biden? C'mon.

From Branko Marcetic in In These Times:

Biden first displayed his friendliness to GOP entitlement hawks when he appointed former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson to co-chair  the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, created in February 2010 via executive order. Simpson was one of Congress's most high-profile foes of entitlements and a proponent of Social Security privatization. In Woodward's telling, Biden even had to lightly pressure a somewhat reluctant Simpson to take the role.

Sure enough, the Simpson-Bowles Commission, as it came to be known, recommended cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, leading liberal economist Paul Krugman to label the commission 'terrible.' Failing to secure enough votes from the commission to recommend the plan to Congress, the proposals were never taken up.

But Biden took a far more direct role in undermining Social Security and Medicare when he headed tax policy negotiations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in December 2010. In Woodward's telling, Biden's eagerness to cut a deal with the Republicans sometimes elicited outrage from his fellow Democrats, who felt he was giving too much away.

Joe Biden does not deserve our vote ever, and if Biden is the nominee, he must be stopped.
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