“Good to be back!” were the first words from Joe Biden tonight in his first address to a joint session of Congress, sort of.
This probably wasn’t the exuberant address to Congress that the creature of Congress ever thought he’d be giving when the former Vice President first announced he was running again for the top job back in 2019.
Yet, on the eve of his 100th day in office, a big government boosting Biden, to paraphrase ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, took to the moment he has been handed, not the one he might have wanted or wished to have. “In another era when our democracy was tested, Franklin Roosevelt reminded us, in America, we do our part,” Biden proclaimed added the end of the just over one hour speech in a still coronavirus