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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1631727420947714048[/twitter]

Multiple House Democrats have expressed anger and frustration over President Biden’s decision to sign a resolution ending a Washington, D.C., crime bill, after they were led to believe he would veto the resolution and protect the bill.

According to The Hill, some of these Democratic Party lawmakers are so outraged over Biden’s decision that they’ve resorted to blasting the White House in expletive-laden epithets. One told the outlet that this is "F---ING AMATEUR HOUR."

The same lawmaker claimed that the White House "f---ed this up royally." Others said Biden's decision was "disappointing."

The outlet reported that Biden announced his decision "to Senate Democrats during lunch on Thursday." It came as a shock to 173 House Democrats who voted for the bill in accordance with their belief that Biden was planning to veto the resolution, not sign it.

As Fox News Digital reported Thursday, the resolution came in "response to the Washington, D.C., Council's sweeping overhaul of the city's criminal code, which was approved in November. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser then vetoed the measure in January, saying it would place stress on the criminal justice system."

In a statement, Bowser slammed the update to the criminal code, claiming it would "exacerbate the already stretched capacity of the court system; and it would reduce maximum criminal penalties for violent crimes like carjacking and robberies."

The D.C. Council later overrode her veto.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the resolution to nix the update to the Washington, D.C., code in a 250-173 vote in February.[/quote]

Curious that they were so quiet when 31 of their Democrat House colleagues voted to disapprove the crime bill.

Anyone who thought Biden would veto this knows exactly zero about how politics works. Why would Biden give his future Republican opponent hours of attack-ad material to help a nobody like Charles Allen with a bill that clearly wasn't even wanted by a wide swath of District residents? And the issue of DC home rule is a complete non-entity among 99.99999 percent of U.S. voters; rightly or wrongly, they simply don't see it as an issue to care about. There was no way Biden was gonna stick his neck out on this.[/quote]

No one (except maybe Charles Allen) would have thought Biden would veto this to help Allen.

But signing it also separately leaves the Dems who voted against it in the House out to dry — if they knew Biden wasn't going to block it, I bet more of them would have also voted for it, because, as you correctly point out, very few people outside D.C. care about Home Rule, and if the outcome is a foregone conclusion, vulnerable House members may as well not take a vote that can be spun as "soft on crime."

It was an own goal by the D.C. Council, definitely, but for the White House to say they opposed it, and then to turn around and decide to support it, is also an own goal in terms of the national politics of it all.[/quote]

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