Biden’s report card

Regarding “Editorial: Hey, unhappy Biden voters — whom did you think you were electing?” (July 11): The editorial says, “Their (the upper ranks of the Democratic Party) hopes for clinging to power rest on changing the perception that the nation is being led by a politically weak, aging president who has failed to budge the legislative gridlock and enact transformative change.” Dream on, Chronicle. President Joe Biden is not merely a perception of disaster, he’s the real thing. The man is incapable of clear thinking, and his own party is in disarray. Yes, as you say, Biden has legislative achievements, but most are a detriment to the country. Yet, there’s hope for Democrats. As experience shows, the Republicans are quite capable of fulfilling the old adage used by a New York Times sports writer on March 5, 1891, in regard to the dismal play of the White Stockings baseball team: to “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”

J. Jones, La Porte

I expected him not to be Donald Trump. And he’s not. Thank you, Joe Biden.

Patricia Roberts, Bellaire

This editorial does make several valid points about the few bipartisan bills that have been passed. When it was clear that Sens. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema would not support Build Back Better, it would have been nice to see some outreach to Sens. Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. It also would have been nice to have a path of citizenship for DACA recipients and an increased minimum wage. Democrats need a unified message of representing unions, supporting the expansion of health care and treating each American worker with dignity. Hopefully they can embrace a cohesive and coherent message for our future.

Alexus Sham, Conroe

Did the Chronicle editorial writer have to see a chiropractor after writing bend-over-backward excuses for Biden’s failed presidency? What a painful experience as well for the reader to have to cut through the agonizing machinations of coming up with Biden accomplishments, which are, in reality, nonexistent.

Carole Paul Vesely, Houston

Regarding “Biden’s spending set off inflation; don’t give him more,” (July 10): Marc Thiessen blames President Joe Biden for the current economic inflation as resulting from ludicrously generous social spending disguised as pandemic relief. The money was appropriated by a politically polarized Congress and saved many Americans from eviction, foreclosure and starvation. This “blame Biden” mindset ignores the realities of supply chain disruptions, sanctions against Russian gas distribution and the failure of the Federal Reserve to curb unrealistically low federal discount rates. A president is fair game for criticism, but the characterization of Biden as underhanded with a disguised social agenda is unfair and needs to be called out.

H. Clay Moore, Dickinson