Biden’s team learned the wrong lessons from the Obama years

… It is clear that the “go big or go home,” approach that President Biden and congressional Democrats took to the coronavirus relief and stimulus package this month was driven by lessons they feel they learned from President Obama’s experience in 2009, getting an economic-stimulus package through Congress in the first weeks after he took office, in the throes of the Great Recession. …

There seems to be a consensus among Democratic insiders that if Obama could not get Republicans to the table, Biden wouldn’t have a prayer. But is that really the case? CONTINUED

Charlie Cook, National Journal


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