Is This Biden’s ‘Supermarket Scanner’ Moment?

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) 

But we won’t be satisfied until that line – “they have the money to spend” – is indelibly etched in everyone’s memory, along with the line “worst president in U.S. history,” whenever Biden’s name comes up.

 . . ."This week, Joe Biden actually did do something that shows he is perhaps the most clueless president in American history.

In a softball interview this week, CNN’s Erin Burnett let Biden carry on — uninterrupted — with his usual litany of lies.

• That he created 15 million jobs (there’ve been less than 6 million net new jobs under Biden – about equal to Trump’s over the same period).
• That Trump told people to inject bleach (a claim repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers).
• That a million people died from COVID on Trump’s watch (fewer than 470,000 had died when Biden took office; more than 720,000 have died since).
• That “we have got 1,000 billionaires in America. You know what their average federal tax is? Eight-point-three percent” (a completely made-up number that we wrote about here).
• That “when I started this administration, people were saying there’s going to be a collapse of the economy” (nobody but Biden was saying that).

"But then Burnett, to her credit, asked about inflation.

“ 'The cost of buying a home in the United States is double what it was, when you look at your monthly costs, from before the pandemic,” she says. “Real income, when you account for inflation, is actually down since you took office, economic growth last week far short of expectations. Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a two-year low.”

"Biden’s response was a priceless example of incoherent braggadocio.

"First, he completely ignores the fact that real wages are down, and instead points to a survey that, he says, shows “65% of the American people think they’re in good shape economically.”

"Then he follows that up by saying “the polling data has been wrong all along.”

"Then he’s entirely dismissive of anyone complaining. “The idea that we’re in a situation where things are so bad, the folks that — I mean, we have created more jobs. We have made — we’re in a situation where people have access to good-paying jobs.” . . .