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Defenders of President Biden scolded critics of his decision not to take questions following Tuesday’s remarks on sanctions imposed by the White House against Russia, evoking the mantra that “politics stops at the water’s edge,” but the decorum was largely ignored during the previous administration.
“So weird that the ‘Trump is Putin’s puppet’ folks have rediscovered the importance of ‘politics stops at the water’s edge’ in the Biden era lol,” Cavalry founding partner and podcaster Michael Duncan observed.
The Twitter account for House Republicans captioned a photo of Biden turning his back on reporters and walking away without taking questions by writing, “This is what weakness on the world stage looks like.” The tweet was hit with immediate backlash, including one observer who asked, “Whatever happened to, ‘Politics stops at the water’s edge?’”
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Another critic responded, “Just add ‘politics stops at the water’s edge’ to the list of American principles jettisoned to own libs.”
Many other pundits have scolded critics of Biden’s Tuesday remarks. CNN’s Kasie Hunt even suggested Republicans were the “enemy” for criticizing Biden as the U.S. “works to keep alliances strong.”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid agreed with the notion that domestic political beef shouldn’t affect foreign policy.
“’Politics ends at the water’s edge’ used to be a thing,” Reid wrote in response to the tweet. Biden, however, was not abroad, but in the White House.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid declared, “’Politics ends at the water’s edge’ used to be a thing.”
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The phrase, attributed to Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican from Michigan who supported Democratic President Harry Truman during the aftermath of World War II, is being used to scold Republicans as the Ukraine-Russia crisis escalates. However, liberals didn’t…
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