Yet, what we hear is the world’s smallest violin playing “Wail for the Chief.”Ī recent NBC News story captured this dynamic:
Cooke has noted, the modern Democratic agenda amounts to an “ inflation machine,” including the goal to “increase the discretionary income of middle- and upper-middle-class Americans by writing at least $10,000 off the student-loan debt they owe taxpayers.” To that point, nowhere do we see an acknowledgment that big-spending policies at least could have played a role or that it might be wise to reconsider those policies in light of events. This week, Biden also blamed Republicans for - try and follow this - stopping him from tackling inflation by pumping more money into an overheated economy. The president often blames Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that prices were rising for months before the invasion of Ukraine.
On inflation, the Biden administration’s responses have been a tapestry of denial and misdirection and projection. And his inability to get through even a heavily stage-managed appearance without looking as clueless as Grandpa Simpson is the reason Americans doubt his fitness to lead. His softness on illegal immigration is the obvious cause of the ongoing border crisis. Gasoline prices are not as directly linked to Biden’s actions as inflation, but he can hardly blame exogenous forces for the spike in the cost of fossil fuel when disrupting its supply has been a nakedly stated objective of the bureaucracy he put in place.īiden is the primary author of the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan that first caused his approval ratings to sag. And then he pushed for even more of the same, spending the rest of the year advocating trillions in infrastructure spending (which he got) and trillions more in spending on the so-called Build Back Better agenda (which he didn’t). Yet Biden pushed for more stimulus and got it, pouring $1.9 trillion worth of kerosene on the fire. But Biden was dealt an excellent hand he has no excuses for the mess he’s in.īy the time Biden took office, the economy had rebounded energetically, growing 33.4 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively, in the last two quarters of 2020, and it was already roaring along at a 6.4 percent growth clip for the first quarter of 2021. Unpopular presidents tend to complain that they were dealt a bad hand, and then grouse that the media are making things look worse than they are. Isaac Schorr, who moonlights as a Jolt writer, riffs on this theme here, and Kyle Smith provides a reality check: But it is not true that the buck stops everywhere but there. It is true, as pieces on this website have pointed out on occasion, that challenges ranging from the supply-chain mess to inflation are not primarily of the president’s making and involve forces outside his control (the Fed plays a bigger role in the latter and belatedly is trying to correct course). Based on press accounts and the president’s own public laments, he is dismayed at the following: bad hands he’s been dealt by the universe, the sheer number of problems he’s called upon to do something about, inadequate messaging from staff, aides who correct his gaffes, insufficiently positive media coverage, insufficiently supportive Democrats, those damn Republicans, and on it goes.Īs is typical with those occupying high public office, nowhere on that list is evidence of self-reflection beyond the idea that he should have communicated better how incredible he is. Not Biden, it seems, despite his prior eight years of intimate familiarity with the position. president would involve compounding challenges arising simultaneously on a global scale? jobs report in Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 3, 2022. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the monthly U.S.
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