Joe's Bidenomics victory tour is a bust on Day One
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Joe Biden’s re-election campaign kicks into high gear this week with the president and Cabinet secretaries blanketing the nation to boast about Bidenomics.
But CNN reports more than half of Americans believe “the economy is still
in a downturn and conditions are continuing to worsen.”
The victory tour started Tuesday in Arizona.
But Biden’s slurring, disjointed speech might have reminded viewers of the “authentic frontier gibberish” accolade from the 1974 movie “Blazing
Saddles.”
Biden couldn’t decide whether the Grand Canyon was one of the nine wonders
of the world or one of the seven wonders of the world.
The prez pretended his decrees prohibiting any development of millions of
acres would magically create prosperity.
After finishing his sparsely attended speech, Biden opted to attend a fundraiser that night in Albuquerque in lieu of visiting the chaos his
policies unleashed at the Arizona-Mexico border.
Bidenomics is a hard sell because consumer prices have increased almost
17% since the president took office, real wages have fallen 4%, and
interest rates are at their highest level in 22 years.
Team Biden has no alternative except to “lie louder” — the same tactic
that’s insulated it from the media since 2021.
But how can the White House craft bigger howlers?!?
In his State of the Union address in January, Biden boasted that thanks to
his infrastructure law, “last year, we funded 700,000 major construction projects — 700,000 all across America.”
Biden exaggerated by a hundred-fold the number of federally funded
projects, and even the White House issued a humiliating correction.
According to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, “Part of our job is storytelling, and we need to make the case about how all of this adds up
into a better big picture, too.”
In 2021, CNN bashed him for exaggerating by more than 500% the likely
number of jobs Biden’s infrastructure plan would create.
Buttigieg’s latest stories involve heavily hyped ribbon cuttings for
projects that were funded before Biden’s landmark legislation was enacted.
Most of Biden’s economic achievements are shams or mirages.
After Friday’s jobs report, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted: “That
means, today, 187,000 more Americans are able to go to work, to provide
for their family and invest in their future.”
A Babylon Bee headline was closer to the truth: “White House Says
Bidenomics So Successful The Average American Has Twice As Many Jobs As
They Had Two Years Ago.”
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