This tweet:
We say: Excuse us, but Build Back Better doesn’t “lower” costs — it just offers subsidies, meaning someone else pays (which might actually raise the cost of those things). Meanwhile, the trillions it calls for in new spending will only fuel inflation, as even liberal economists warn. Oh, and how does Press Secretary Jen Psaki think the bill’s steps to cut fossil-fuel supplies will “lower” gas prices at the pump? Honest Dems admit they want higher energy costs to curb CO2 emissions. So just who is “rooting for inflation”?
This statement:
Border Czar Vice President Kamala Harris claims the Biden administration “inherited” the border crisis that former President Donald Trump controlled. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky“We can’t just flip a switch and make [the border crisis] better . . . We inherited an immigration system that is deeply broken.”
— Vice President Kamala Harris, Nov. 18
We say: President Donald Trump had the border situation largely under control, but President Biden did “flip a switch,” reversing Trump’s policies vital to keeping order at the border and signaling that migrants would be let in, practically no questions asked. Result: an unprecedented border-surge disaster. Fiscal year 2021 (which ended Sept. 30) saw agents detain nearly 1.7 million migrants, more than four times 2020’s number and the second-highest ever. Sorry, Madam Veep, but your boss can “flip a switch” — back to how it was.
This discussion:
We say: You’ve got to be kidding! Never mind the irony of a show supposedly dedicated to free speech focusing on ways to silence speech it doesn’t like; having Rep. Adam Schiff discuss “the weaponization of misinformation” is like having Willie Sutton talk about robbing banks — both are experts on the subject. Indeed, Schiff spent nearly all of Trump’s term as president “weaponizing” his bogus claim that the ex-prez’s campaign “colluded” with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Now it’s clear that much of that false narrative was pushed by operatives linked to Trump’s foe, Hillary Clinton.
Spot the difference:
“You’ll actually see your standard of living go up and your costs go down.”
— Then-candidate Joe Biden, Oct. 24, 2020
We say: President Biden’s (belated) admission that prices have been spiraling and families suffering stands in stark contrast to his promise last year that costs would “go down.” “Many people remain unsettled about the economy,” Biden conceded last week. “They see higher prices. They go to the store online . . . and they can’t find what they always want.” Yet most frightening is his additional revelation that he’s only now “trying to figure out how to tackle” these problems.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
