Does Biden have short-term memory problem or a short-circuited brain?

 Monica Showalter:

Does Joe Biden know what he's talking about?

A few stale weeks after being rebuffed by Congress and many Democrat economists over his $3.5-trillion "build back better" spend-a-thon, he's tweeting up a storm about being a deficit-cutter while vowing even more big government spending.

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Hearing this spend-a-thon artist blame President Trump for "fiscal management" is something just a little beyond the pot calling the kettle black.

Yes, Trump spent a lot.  But he also cut government.  And much of what was spent on his watch was on temporary COVID relief measures with built-in expiration dates.  That's where Biden's so-called deficit-cutting comes from.  What Biden is claiming as his great fiscal record is really just the end of COVID relief measures that were baked into the bills themselves.  What's more, it was Democrats, not Trump, who demanded this extra spending in Congress in exchange for the COVID relief measures.  Any bid to blame Trump is a deflection from the real culprits, who were in Congress at the time. 

But Biden has no such excuses to explain his own record.

In Biden's first 14 months in office, he's signed off on at least three major spending bills, including: 

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act and extending existing Covid-19 programs

The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

The $1.5 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act

...which pretty well blew out the fiscal picture in the U.S., given that its impact has been nearly 10% inflation.

That's the real subtext here in his sudden desire to blame Trump for "fiscal mismanagement."  He knows that the gambit to blame Putin for inflation didn't work, so now he's back to setting the stage to blame Trump for it.

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I suspect the problem is that when in trouble Biden lies a lot.  He is like a child who blames his mistakes on others.  He is back to making Trump the designated scapegoat for Democrats.

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