Joe Biden takes up Marjorie Taylor Greene’s challenge. He did, in fact, “say her name,” as she demanded. And he noted that her murderer was “an illegal.” MTG did not seem satisfied.
The Border Patrol Union endorsed the border bill because they’d take a gas station sandwich and a bottle of water at this point. Biden has given them nothing and expects them to handle the world’s desperate day after day.
Biden’s rhetoric on the border – an issue that is utterly sapping him at the polls, and is now noticeable all over the country due to busing – is incoherent and fails to address his key weakness on the issue: voters understand this flood of illegal aliens is happening because of Biden’s policies and weaknesses. They were coming here the moment he took office, because they knew they would have better luck during a Democratic administration. (They were not wrong.)
Talking about the signing a “border bill” is not going to move the dial.
Biden tried once again to claim to be a deficit cutter. But he uses as his comparison the inflated peak Covid spending levels. Had he done nothing, they were expected to go down. In reality, Biden actually added to the problem. Deficits have been $1.6 trillion higher than what the CBO projected for the past three years. When he took office, CBO projected the 2023 deficit would be $963 billion. It was $1.7 trillion.
Joe Biden leans over the lectern and taunts Republicans who scuttled the bipartisan Senate supplemental bill dealing with the border crisis. When the president listed what the bill would do, James Lankford nodded. “That’s true,” he mouthed.
The shrinkflation stuff is truly bizarre because most of the sizing changes happened two or more years ago at this point. Biden has never alleged any violations of the law by companies changing their packaging. And if anything, shrinkflation helps Biden by making it slightly more difficult to detect higher food prices.
Biden mischaracterizes bill, then asks, “what are you against?”
This reminds me of late era Clinton and Obama SOTU. A relentless focus on jobs, endless little pushes and pulls, and callouts of special interest groups. It’s a kind of economic chiropractic adjustment. A pinch here, a little squeeze of relief there. The impression given is that a busy technocratic administration is working feverishly on a thousand different tiny problems at once.
This is not an economic vision for the country. Just gimcrack.
I’m probably the only NR writer who writes “Big Snacks” and thinks of Damon Harrison.
Raise your hands if you ever thought you would see the president of the United States talking about the size of Snickers bars in a State of the Union address. Then again, maybe we all need a Snickers bar right now, because with the way this speech is dragging on, none of us are going anywhere for a while.
The president of the United States is ranting about the size of Snickers bars.