Oblivious Biden

Published in The Washington Times, June 18, 2022

By Jonathan Imbody

As polls indicate that roughly only one in three Americans approve of his performance, President Biden has responded incongruously with self-congratulatory rhetoric. The inverse relationship between the president's popularity and pronouncements is striking:

As inflation races past income and families choose between eating or driving, Biden responds blithely, "Look, here’s where we are. We have the fastest growing economy in the world. The world. The world."

Facing reports that healthcare prices rose some 8.6% in the past year and almost two-thirds of Americans now avoid or delay healthcare," Biden daydreams out loud, "When I’m proposing we get, and I think we can get it done, I’m proposing that we in fact reduce the cost of those things."

As gas prices have doubled to historic highs since Biden took office, he exclaims, "Well, in climate change, we’ve actually made some real moves." Ignoring his own anti-fossil fuel regulatory roadblocks, he instead targets oil companies and says, "We have to get the message across in a way that is understandable to people like the folks in my family, when we grew up, tell people just what the facts are."

Well, people already know what the facts are. The price is on the gas pump.

Our oblivious president missed the obvious self-application of his own words when he recently highlighted "the need for significant mental health proposals, relating to people who are feeling, not knowing where they’re going, not knowing how to respond, not knowing how to act."