<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654946610760,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654946610760,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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On Friday, the inflation rate was announced at an unexpectedly high 8.6%, but polls show that many people feel it is much higher since they are paying about 50% more for gas and 20% more for food. Biden blamed the war in Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but few were buying it.
On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, gun control talks were slowing down. Red flag proposals, which appeared to have bipartisan support, are now likely to be watered down or sidelined.
Conservative grader Jed Babbin coined a new acronym, a version of SNAFU. “Maybe ‘SNABU’ — Situation Normal, All Bidened up.”
Jed Babbin
Grade F
This week revealed just how far the Biden regime is willing to go to push its transgender agenda on an unwilling public. It announced that certain schools would have federal money for lunches withheld unless they adopt government-certified policies on “discrimination on gender identity.” Nothing like depriving children of food to bully parents and schools into something they strongly, and rightfully, reject.
The average national gasoline price went to $5 a gallon, accompanied by an inflation rate that is the worst since 1981. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris starred at the Summit of the Americas, which accomplished nothing other than a promise by Biden to help Brazil reduce deforestation of the Amazon basin.
There is yet another “caravan” of illegal immigrants headed to our border, reportedly more than 10,000 who will be admitted quickly when they get here.
And then there was the Department of Homeland Security’s Tuesday terror alert warning that the expected Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade, coupled with anger about Biden’s open borders, would lead to mass violence. The DHS alert was either a last-minute attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court or a preemptive excuse for pro-abortion violence. Or both.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Marshals, fortunately, thwarted an assassination attempt outside Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home. The Senate passed a special bill to protect the judges about two weeks ago, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is blocking its passage.
If anyone on Team Biden noticed Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s threat to interfere in the 2022 elections if people spoke disrespectfully about Mexicans, it went unreported. That is precisely the type of threat a president should respond to forcefully, but from Biden, there was no word. Like the late Donald Rumsfeld was fond of saying, weakness is provocative.
Another SNAFU week. Or maybe “SNABU” — situation normal, all Bidened up.
John Zogby
Grade C-
Bad numbers all around for Biden this week.
Inflation for May was annualized at 8.6%, much worse than expectations and no president can explain that away. At least satisfactorily. And Biden’s approval rating is averaging under 40%, the worst of his presidency.
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I believe he is trying valiantly to place blame for inflation on “Vladimir Putin’s War” and COVID-19 supply chain problems, but the prices at the dairy counter and at the pump just won’t go away. He may get a victory on some gun legislation, but it will probably be a toothless compromise that will satisfy no one.
He may be the one person who benefits from the Jan. 6 special committee’s hearings, but it is too early to see that. For now, the president cannot catch a break. The only good news is that his former and possibly future opponent, Donald Trump, is looking a lot worse — even to a small but growing number of Republicans.
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 partner Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on Twitter @ZogbyStrategies
