Biden: “What are Republicans for? Name me one thing that they’re for?”
Letting parents decide if their kids should wear masks to school, keeping schools open, getting critical race theory out of the education curriculum, reducing regulations, reducing tax rates (except for the cap on the state and local tax deduction), reopening the Keystone Pipeline, shutting down the Nordstream 2 pipeline…
Biden reassures Democratic candidates that he's going to be on the road making the case for them. That may not be exactly what every purple-state candidate is looking for this year….
After saying he didn't overpromise, Biden shifts the blame onto the GOP: “I haven't been able to get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country.”
Biden: “I didn’t overpromise. But I have, probably, outperformed what anybody thought would happened.” This is the same man who pledged to “shut down the virus.”
To use one of Biden's favorite phrases, come on, man.
In the sort of statement that really should bring out the trainers to check him for a concussion, President Biden contends that the best way to fight inflation is for the federal government to spend another $1 trillion to $2 trillion on the Build Back Better legislation.
The massive spending will continue until the inflation stops!
Biden is reiterating the case that his agenda, and especially “Build Back Better,” will reduce long-term inflationary pressures. There is plenty of reason to doubt that it will increase productivity as he claims. But even if he were right, it's not inflation in 2025 we're most worried about. More here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-21/build-back-better-biden-inflation-pitch-can-t-pass-the-laugh-test?sref=XcONO5zf
Biden dismisses Americans’ concerns over empty store shelves. He says share of goods in stock at stores is 89 percent now, “barely changed” from the 91 percent before the pandemic.
I'll give Biden a little bit of credit for acknowledging that not every school has sent its Covid-19 relief funding wisely. (Maybe you think it's great that federal taxpayers provided $231,000 to the Creston Community School District in Iowa, that the district used to upgrade its outdoor stadium, including an expansion of its bleachers.) But that's all Biden does – acknowledge it. He doesn't want to spend any time pointing to any examples or calling out any school districts for wasteful or unwise spending.
Biden says U.S. is not going back to lockdowns and schools should stay open, citing the $130 billion awarded to states by the American Rescue Plan to “keep students and educators safe and schools open.”
“That money went out to the states, and states and the school districts have spent this money well — many of them, but unfortunately, some haven't.”
Biden touts creating 6 million new jobs. But that was entirely expected given that the economy was still in the midst of reopening from devastating Covid lockdowns. In fact, in the 8 months prior to him taking office, the economy had added more than 12 million jobs.