Biden falls into a Covid trap of his own making

 Robyn Dolgin:

During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden launched a blistering attack on (then) President Trump alleging that he was responsible for more than "200,000" deaths in the first wave of the COVID epidemic, never thinking that number would be dwarfed on his watch.

Those people were dead, Biden alleged, because the president failed to perceive the danger of the virus.  He didn't "take it seriously."  In a well-rehearsed line, Biden looked into the camera in a presidential debate and asked the viewers: "How many of you got up this morning and had an empty chair at the table because someone died of COVID-19?"

He's no longer asking such pointed questions.  None of these searing indictments has come back to haunt Biden in the mainstream media, but he may soon find himself confronting a blizzard of criticism as the nation heads into the 2022 election.  Voting cycles are an excellent time for political pundits to capitalize on the winds of change — especially the tsunami of bad news overtaking the Biden administration.

President Biden entered the Oval Office full of bluster and promised to "shut down the virus" or vaccinate all 330 million Americans.  Would anyone at CNN ask the president whether he held himself accountable — or did he feel personally responsible — for the 433,691 COVID-related deaths, and now omicron, occurring on his watch?  Perhaps the administration could take some comfort in knowing that a mere 33 percent of Americans want the government to prioritize COVID-19, which reflects a 20-point drop from last year, according to a recent Associated Press–NORC poll.

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It was easy for Biden to hurl insults at Trump during the 2020 presidential campaign, and the strategy appeared to be effective.  Now he's confronting a different political bombshell of his own making.  The same Associated Press–NORC poll revealed that 68 percent of Americans said the economy — with the worst inflation since 1982 — should be prioritized by the Biden administration.

Americans are no longer buying the "Build Back Better" campaign, extolling progress on the employment front, and a minuscule drop in fuel prices.  There isn't any escaping the mounting inflationary cycle every time a voter checks out groceries or opens mounting utility bills.

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Biden has a bad habit of not seeing the consequences of many of his decisions.  We saw this with his Afghan bug-out which turned into a fiasco.  We are seeing it now with the Covid cases he said he would "shut down."  He and his staff appear to take a half-assed approach to decisions and then are shocked by the consequences of those decisions. 

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