Biden in la-la land
Once in a while during the Obama Administration some people liked to say that a re-run of the Carter presidency was a best-case scenario, but that is really coming true under President Biden. As mentioned previously, it took Carter three years to finally hit bottom, with the famous “Malaise” speech of July 1979 (which never actually contained the word “malaise,” but his press secretary accepted that characterization the following day in a press conference).
It was right after that astoundingly bad speech that Ken Bode wrote in The New Republic an assessment that could be used today with only the name of the administration swapped out:
The past two weeks will be remembered as the period when President Carter packed it in, put the finishing touches on a failed presidency. . . It’s over for Jimmy Carter. . . The Carter administration has simply imploded, collapsed inwardly under the weight of its own incompetence.
See if you can work out any consistency in these positions:
• The current burst of inflation is only “transitory” they tell us, but we need to give a permanent 25 percent boost in benefits for Food Stamp recipients.
• We need to stop producing and transporting fossil fuels here at home, but please, pretty please OPEC and Russia, will you pump more oil out of the ground to help us keep our gasoline prices down? (No thanks, they have said so far.)
Related: Canada’s Keystone pipeline must be stopped because it is a threat to the planet, but by all means let’s bless Russia’s huge gas pipeline to Germany. Remind me again why people thought Trump was in the pocket of the Russians?
• This last point—on the contradictions of Biden’s energy and climate policies—is not lost on environmentalists, and they are not happy. Politico:
Biden’s pro-car, pro-gasoline moves leave green allies fuming
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There is more.
His green allies still live in fantasy land when it comes to cars and fossil fuels. While Biden has a goal of 50 percent electric vehicles, the chances of it being met are remote, and if it did the grid that Big Green envisions could not charge them to get out of their driveway. The problem with the leftist critics is that they are even more out of touch with reality than Biden is and that is saying something.
And note the post below where Biden wants to give the Taliban billions after losing a war to them.
See, also:
Electric Vehicles Will Tax the Electric Grid
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