Try to name one thing Biden has done well. One.

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By David Horsey
Seattle Times cartoonist

Democrats are very nervous about President Joe Biden. They like the guy. They celebrate what he has accomplished during his first two years as president. But they wonder about tying their fortunes in the 2024 election to a man who would be 82 years old at his second inauguration.
Biden must be annoyed by this. You can imagine him saying, “Folks, what more do you want from me? Has any president done as much since FDR? Too old? Give me a break.”

If accomplishments were all that counted, Biden would have a lock on the Democratic nomination and probably on a second term in the White House.

When he came into office, the COVID-19 pandemic was crushing the economy and killing jobs. A lot of people were on the edge of financial ruin. Biden pushed through a $1.9 trillion aid package that provided loans for struggling small businesses, reinvigorated federal unemployment benefits, and sent direct payments to millions of Americans — enough money to nearly eliminate childhood poverty.

Then, he got Congress to pass his infrastructure bill that provides billions of dollars to finally fix America’s long-deteriorating roads and bridges, replace lead pipes, upgrade airports and shipping ports, boost public transit and extend broadband access to every corner of the country. The measure also makes a huge investment in clean energy, including money to deal with the wildfires, droughts and floods that are being supersized by climate change.

On the world stage, Biden got the United States back to its traditional leadership role. He rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and recommitted to the NATO alliance. Most crucially, the president has pulled together — and held together — an alliance of democratic nations to support Ukraine in that country’s fight to repel a ruthless Russian invasion.
 
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