April 13, 2022
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Biden Owns 40-year inflation high
By Richard Manning
Inflation is raging at an annual rate of 8.5 percent up from 7.9 percent last month. March’s extremely hot price growth of 1.2 percent pushes the nation’s inflation rate to levels not seen since the first few months of the Reagan administration in May 1981.
Unfortunately, President Joe Biden has no idea why prices are out of control, even though he is the only person in Washington who was in the Senate when inflation last was raging in the 1970s.
During his 15 months in office, we have heard Biden dismiss inflation, call inflation transitory, and now blame it on Putin and anyone else he can find.
What Joe Biden doesn’t seem to understand is that when you set the inflation house on fire and keep pouring gasoline on it through federal spending schemes, anti-energy policies and failed foreign policies, you don’t get to blame the guy down the street for fanning the flames you allowed to consume most of the house.
Here is the truth. It is Joe Biden’s unnecessary 2021, me too, COVID spending extravaganza which lit the inflation fire. It has been Joe Biden’s anti-fossil fuel policies which discourage domestic production and deny pipeline infrastructure to move oil and natural gas around the country which figuratively poured gasoline on that inflation fire. And it is his disastrous pro-Iranian, anti-Saudi and Israel, Middle East foreign policy which has turned the world’s largest producer of crude, Saudi Arabia, from allies on most things to at best disinterested observers, resulting in their unwillingness to increase the world’s oil supply.
Just this week a brutal parody of the President and Vice President appeared on Saudi television mocking Biden. An unheard of action in a formerly allied country where the media is pretty much state controlled. This follows the Saudi’s refusal to increase oil production after a direct appeal from the President and later, a refusal of Saudi leaders to even take President Biden’s phone call recently.
While shocking to see this turn of events, it is understandable given the President’s decision to take Iranian backed Yemen-based terrorists, the Houthis, off the terrorism list the first day of his presidency, followed by his decision to pull Saudi Arabia’s missile defense even as the Houthis engage in daily attacks on their oil fields and cities. When coupled with active attempts by the Biden administration to undermine the Abraham Accords , and the on-going kowtowing to Iran providing money and resources to the Mullahs and their terrorist proxies, it is obvious that the limits on Saudi oil production are a direct payback for Biden’s undeclared war on the House of Saud.
Congress needs to take back control over spending in America by rejecting any new COVID bailouts, including but not limited to the Restaurant Restoration Act which would add $40 billion in new spending and impose a freeze on the growth of all regularly appropriated spending until inflation is wrestled to the ground.
Congress should also send a direct message to the Biden administration by opposing their on-going negotiations with Iran, which are rumored to include a $90 billion payment to the terrorist Iranian regime .
Congress should have a fight over Biden’s disastrous domestic energy policy every single day and make Joe Biden and the Democrats feel the political pain because of what their policies are doing at the pump.
In short, it is time to stop spending, restore domestic energy development and abandon the crazy Biden-Iranian Mullah alliance. There are things that can be done to fight inflation, the sad fact is that Joe Biden is either incapable or unwilling to do them.
To get inflation under control, it will take a major attitude adjustment amongst many of our political class. For years, Democrats and some Republicans in Washington accepted the idea that they could spend unending amounts of money with no one paying the bill. Now that inflation bill has now come due and if Joe Biden and Congress refuses to act in this crisis, the inevitable outcome will be a deep, painful recession which has been how inflation spirals have typically ended.
You will know that Biden is getting desperate when he takes a cue from his first term in the U.S. Senate, when then President Gerald R. Ford fought inflation by urging everyone to wear a Whip Inflation Now (WIN) button .
I can see the hashtag already.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2022/04/biden-owns-40-year-inflation-high/
Red wave 2022 seems almost inevitable
By David Potter
The midterms outlook keeps getting worse for Joe Biden and the Democrats. According to data from a new CBS YouGov poll , the priorities of the American people are poorly represented in the DC beltway. Issues that concern Americans the most are also the same issues in which Biden has the highest disapproval rating.
The top priorities for Americans are the economy (76 percent), inflation (73 percent), crime (59 percent), Russia/Ukraine (58 percent), and immigration (48 percent). Compare that against Biden’s approval rating and the picture becomes clear that reality is nowhere near meeting expectation.
To take a more intimate look at how the economy and inflation is harming the average American, one needs to look no further than surging gas prices. “Half of Americans (49 percent) say recent gas price increases have caused financial hardship for them or someone in their household, including 21 percent who describe that as ‘serious’ hardship. People with a high school education or less (29 percent) and minority Americans (28 percent) are most likely to site serious hardship” according to an Ipsos poll from April 10th .
This is not what Americans expected when they heard build back better. As the Democrat party moves further left, and in pursuit of more radical policies, many longtime party members are left feeling politically homeless and switching their affiliation. “I just got fed up and just felt like there has to be a better way," said Beth Jones, 48, who is a retired police officer in Pennsylvania and ending her 30-year affiliation with the Democrat party. She’s not alone either. The ratio of people switching to red in Pennsylvania is 3.9 to 1 this year. For every Republican who switches to a Democrat, there are nearly four Democrats who switch to Republican. Other Pennsylvania Democrats who are switching parties cite concerns such as weak border control, socialism, and cultural concerns. This is not isolated to just Pennsylvania. Similar trends are happening in Florida and Nevada.
Democrats are having an identity crisis, and this also contributes to their poor poll numbers. Some members of Congress, such as Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), break party lines occasionally, defy Biden, and seek compromise. This mindset is frowned upon by more radical members of the Democrat Party such Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who is often referred to as AOC. She has an all or nothing mindset.
“I think there’s a real nostalgia and belief that that time still exists or that we can get back to that,’ said AOC, 'that we can get back to this time of buddy-buddy and backslapping and we’ll cut a deal and go into a room with some bourbon and some smoke and you’ll come out and work something out.” She called on her fellow Democrats to shift their focus away from Independents - despite them being key to Biden's 2020 performance - and focus on younger, more liberal voters who feel they are not “being seen”. AOC may be on to something because it doesn’t take much time browsing Twitter to find dissatisfied progressives . Like AOC, many want Biden to rule by executive decree and to forgive student loans.
As the economy crumbles before our eyes, Democrat enthusiasm is down in a major way as Biden is too moderate for some and too progressive for others. Back in 2010, the last time the enthusiasm gap was this large, Democrats lost more than 60 seats in the House. Given the 40-year high inflation and an overall approval presidential rating of 42 percent, a 2022 red wave seems inevitable unless GOP candidates make careless mistakes.
David Potter is a contributing editor at Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2022/04/red-wave-2022-seems-almost-inevitable/
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Keep Article 42 to Secure Border!
Please email your Congressman and Senators and tell them to publicly OPPOSE Joe Biden’s plan to suspend Article 42 and let tens of millions of new illegal aliens into America.
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