Biden has no answer to this unpopular poicies

 Boston Globe:

What’s a president to do when his polling numbers are stuck in the basement?

Joe Biden is hoping to figure that out, trying speeches, and policy gambits, and photo ops. But as a White House event this past week showed, success isn’t coming easy.

After meeting with administration officials and baby formula manufacturers about the severe shortage here, Biden struggled to inspire confidence as reporters battered him with questions about that crisis and several others he’s facing.

Biden flatly admitted he didn’t know the formula shortage was a serious problem until April, weeks after the initial recall in February that triggered it. Asked what he would do about record-breaking gas prices, which have strained family budgets and driven up inflation, he argued they “could be higher” if not for steps his administration had taken and said he cannot “click a switch” and bring the cost down.

And finally, as he was walking out of the White House auditorium Wednesday, Biden was asked if he was confident Congress would pass gun safety legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings targeting elementary school students in Texas and Black grocery shoppers in Buffalo. “I served in Congress for 36 years. I’m never confident, totally,” he said. “And I don’t know. I’ve not been in on the negotiations that are going on right now.”
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He could start by reversing his idiotic energy policies.  Deliberately driving up the cost of fuel and then buying it from our enemies instead of American producers makes no sense.  It is contributing to inflation which is another problem along with his out-of-control spending.

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