Biden says right now’s Republicans are ‘worse’ than the SEGREGATIONISTS

Speaker Mike Johnson tore into President Biden for claiming right now’s congressional Republicans are worse than the racist segregationists he served with within the Senate. 

At a fundraiser Wednesday evening in California, Biden advised the gang: ‘I’ve been a senator since ’72. I’ve served with actual racists. I’ve served with Strom Thurmond. I’ve served with all these guys which have set horrible data on race. But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys don’t consider in primary democratic ideas.’

‘Outrageous,’ Johnson mentioned of the remarks on X.

‘The least well-liked President to hunt re-election is now so determined and so underwater within the polls he is taking part in the race card from the underside of the deck.’

Biden throughout his 2020 marketing campaign was compelled to apologize for reminiscing fondly about working with southern segregationists. 

He gave a glowing eulogy of South Carolina’s Thurmond, who died in workplace at 100 in 2003 and fiercely opposed racial integration for a lot of his profession. 

Biden, nevertheless, didn’t apologize for that eulogy on Wednesday. 

‘I advised the reality. By the time Strom left he did horrible issues,’ the president mentioned, in response to a pool report. ‘But by the point he left he had extra African American in his workers than every other member in Congress. He voted to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act.’ 

‘I’m not making him greater than he was. But my level is no less than you could possibly work with a few of these guys,’ Biden went on. ‘Time and once more Republicans present they’re the get together of chaos and division.’

On the marketing campaign path in 2020, Biden recollected ‘civility’ within the Senate by invoking two segregationists, James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, each Democrats. 

Of Eastland, he mentioned: ‘He by no means known as me “boy, he always called me “son.”‘

He described Talmadge as ‘one of the meanest guys I ever knew, you go down the list of all these guys.’ 

‘Well guess what?’ Biden went on. ‘At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.’

Weeks later, Biden walked those comments back. 

‘Now, was I wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that I was praising those men who I successfully opposed time and again? Yes, I was. I regret it. I’m sorry for any of the pain and misconception I may have caused anybody.’ 

Biden’s latest remarks come as Congress remains at an impasse over everything from must-pass spending legislation to aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific and immigration reform. 

The Senate passed a foreign aid package last week that Johnson has suggested is dead on arrival in the House. Johnson now insists he must sit down with Biden to discuss attaching border security provisions to the aid bill – as Biden demands he bring the Senate bill up for a vote. 

Congress is also fast approaching another deadline to pass spending legislation to fund the government in fiscal year 2024, after having passed three stopgap bills to kick the deadline down the road. Funding for 12 agencies of government will expire on a split timeline of March 1 and March 8.