A Scandal That Ended Joe Biden's 1988 Presidential Campaign |

 Fom April, 2019: Time; Why Joe Biden’s First Campaign for President Collapsed After Just 3 Months   .  . ."Here’s how TIME described why the fallout was so intense: T]he Biden brouhaha illustrates the six deadly requirements for a crippling political scandal.

1) A Pre-Existing Subtext. “The basic rap against Biden,” explains Democratic Pollster Geoff Garin, “is that he’s a candidate of style, not substance.”

2) An Awkward Revelation. The Kinnock kleptomania was particularly damaging to Biden since it underscored the prior concerns that he was a shallow vessel for other people’s ideas.

3) A Maladroit Response. Top Aide Tom Donilon claimed that Biden failed to redit Kinnock because “he didn’t know what he was saying. He was on autopilot.”

4) The Press Piles On. Once textual fidelity became an issue, reporters found earlier cases in which Biden had failed to give proper citation to Humphrey and Robert Kennedy. By themselves these transgressions would not have been worth noting.

5) The Discovery of Youthful Folly. During his first months at Syracuse University Law School, in 1965, Biden failed a course because he wrote a paper that used five pages from a published law-review article without quotation marks or a proper footnote. Since Biden was allowed to make up the course, the revelation was front-page news only because it kept the copycat contretemps alive.

6) An Overwrought Press Conference. With a rambling and disjointed opening statement, Biden failed to reap the benefits of public confession, even though he called himself “stupid” and his actions “a mistake.” Part of the problem is that he contradicted himself by also insisting that it was “ludicrous” to attribute every political idea.

Biden administration continues to spread the myth about gouging gas stations

 Jack Hellner  "On Election Day, the spot crude oil price was around $40 per barrel, and today it is around $100 per barrel — this is a 150% increase.  On the same day, the retail gasoline price was $2.10 per gallon, and today, it is around $4.60 per gallon (up around 120%).  If gas prices correlated with inflation, it would actually be 60 cents higher per gallon, not lower.

"Biden whispers to gas station owners, "Just lower your price to reflect your cost" — as if they don't consistently conduct business operations without the advice of Sleepy Joe.  It seems that people throughout the Biden administration believe that crude oil magically and immediately moves from the spot market to our cars.

"The truth is, there are many steps that crude oil must go through before it arrives at the pump, and each step is also reeling from the rate of inflation.  Delivering product from the well to the customer involves many companies and areas of focus:". . .

"Throughout Trump's years, and despite a high demand, energy prices were affordable.  On the other hand, Biden campaigned on a promise that he would destroy the fossil fuel industry.  As soon as he took control, he blocked a pipeline and took major steps toward preventing drilling.  Regulatory federal agencies started — and continue to do so — ramping up compulsory regulations against refineries.  Financial administrators and the SEC also organized to damage businesses that lent to or invested in the fossil fuel industry.

"Should we be surprised?  According to the Committee to Unleash Prosperity:

First and foremost, 62 percent of Biden's top political appointees and staffers 'who deal with economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance have virtually no business experience.'

What's more, only one out of eight Biden officials has what the authors deem 'extensive business experience,' and the average level of business experience across the Biden administration is about 2.4 years