<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654354133898,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654354133898,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_54112447", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1023884"} }); rn","_id":"00000181-2f30-dedf-ad93-bf73ac190000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedThis week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden at the beach again, on a path to spending 533 days on break and away from the White House.
During the week, he weighed in with a lackluster address on guns and watched as gas prices doubled under his watch. And his West Wing was rocked with a wave of stories about how his aides feel the Biden presidency is a lost, or at least meandering, one.
But Biden did get some good news with the creation of more jobs than expected.
Conservative grader Jed Babbin said the jobs report saved Biden’s week, which he rated a near failure — again.
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Biden is adrift in a sea of crises, most of which are of his own making. It was another YGBSM week for Team Biden.
Biden reportedly is angry with his Cabinet and staff because they usually correct his worst misstatements, such as the statement he’s made three times that we’d go to war to defend Taiwan. Biden thinks the corrections make him look weak which, of course, they do.
Biden’s misstatements flew thick and fast this week. He said that he’d been appointed to the Naval Academy in 1965, the year he graduated from college. His tirades against guns and gun ownership continued. This week, he implied that there should be a ban on 9mm handguns, the most popular caliber for personal protection because they can “blow the lung out” of a person. And he said, again, that the Second Amendment was never absolute, giving the example that you couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was new.
Biden’s Thursday gun control speech was a concatenation of Democratic talking points such as another assault weapons ban (presumably, AR-15-style rifles) and promoting “safe storage” laws (which would be unconstitutional). It’s going to be a Democratic campaign issue, nothing more.
While all that was going on, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted inflation was out of control, and Biden’s “new” plan to counter inflation was announced. It’s just some warmed-over parts of his “Build Back Better” plan that wouldn’t do anything to counter inflation, even if Congress was unwise enough to revive it.
Meanwhile, gasoline hit yet another all-time price-per-gallon high this week, and Biden admitted he was AWOL on the baby formula shortage for three months. That shortage is only getting worse. And the Marine Corps celebrated gay pride month by showing a helmet with a strap around it holding cartridges loaded with rainbow-colored bullets. The Marines have gone woke, which is all the proof anyone should need to conclude that the Biden team has destroyed our national security.
A good report on jobs was the only thing to save Biden from an “F” this week.
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
