Presidential Historians: Biden has quietly been the most consequential President legislatively since LBJ

[Menace Sockeyes]

Great conversation I heard on Marketplace the other day. Kai Ryssdal was talking with presidential historians about how and why Biden quietly reshaped the federal government's role via legislation. Very much compared his skills as a deal maker in the Senate to that of LBJ, and argued long time Senators have a massive advantage in this respect. One covers how and why really well in this piece...

9DASHLINE — The very consequential presidency of Joe Biden

Written by Dr Richard Johnson. Whatever happens in the remaining two years of the first Biden term, the octogenarian president can already feel confident that he has left a major legacy and will be recorded as a very consequential president.

www.9dashline.com

 

[tarheelbybirth]

With the American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act alone, Joe Biden can comfortably consider himself one of the most legislatively consequential presidents of recent times.

Now...name the legislative achievements of his predecessor.

 

[Huey Grey]

Biden has been a good president. Obama was above average. Clinton just absolutely crushed it. Makes you wonder what we've been doing giving the Rs any shot at all when the last two guys they gave us were Trump and Bush.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

He has treated the position like an actual job, it's refreshingly boring.

 

[BDE420]

With the American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act alone, Joe Biden can comfortably consider himself one of the most legislatively consequential presidents of recent times.

Now...name the legislative achievements of his predecessor.

Derp ^^^^