This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden vacationing on exclusive Nantucket Island, where the average home price is $3.6 million, and still telling the rest of us how to live.
From paying off countries for U.S. global warming to telling some 22 million people to give up their sporting rifles, Biden was full of Thanksgiving advice. And if you didn’t believe him, the White House handed out talking points for the Thanksgiving dinner table to prove he’s smart.
Our conservative grader Jed Babbin dished out an “F” for what he dubbed the “Biden Clown Car.” Democratic pollster John Zogby was away for the holiday.
Jed Babbin
Grade F
President Joe Biden’s week seemed like a page from “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” Having overspent so enormously that he caused the highest rate of inflation in four decades, Biden and his “climate envoy” John Kerry signed us up to spend billions or trillions more on something we shouldn’t spend a dime on. This time it is “reparations” payable to poor countries for climate damage our economy has done to the world’s climate. On the YGBSM side, there were the White House talking points for the Thanksgiving dinner table, chock-full of baloney and a few other things to liven up the week.
The United Nations’s 27th Conference of Parties, COP 27, on the global warming scam highlighted the week with the agreement by the United States and other participants to pay ecological reparations to developing nations. This is predicated on the belief that richer nations have caused global warming and damage to the climate since the age of industrialization began in 1850. China, the world’s second-largest economy and one of the worst polluters, was exempted from the burden of paying because China is still a “developing” country.
This agreement will cost the U.S. taxpayer an undetermined amount in the range of many billions to trillions of dollars. The Economist magazine has projected that the amount spent on climate control (not home AC) should triple in the next few years from the current $1 trillion.
Biden’s talking points for Thanksgiving dinner probably caused nausea and/or irreparable harm to family relations. In any well-informed household, the brags about Biden’s top accomplishments could have incited misdemeanor violence. The “top ten” included controlling inflation and reduced prices of gasoline, much higher than when Biden was inaugurated.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization, under intense pressure from the Biden White House, agreed to rename the monkeypox virus. The Biden Clown Car believes that name is offensive to people of color, so the virus will now be named “Mpox.”
And we may have an economy-crippling railroad strike in the next couple of weeks. As if inflation, mortgage rate hikes, and a 20% increase in the price of turkeys aren’t enough, Biden is again pushing an “assault weapons” ban in the lame-duck Congress.
In short, it was another week in which Biden would have earned a grade lower than “F” if there were one.
Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin
John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His weekly podcast with son and managing partner Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on Twitter @ZogbyStrategies
