Even NYT admits Biden can't walk and chew gum

Gum-chewer: Cattle rustling, arson...

Hedley Lamarr: What have you got in your mouth?

Gum-chewer: Nuthin!

Taggart: [pulls gum out of the man's mouth] Huh! Gum!

Hedley Lamarr: Chewing gum on line eh?! I hope you brought enough for EVERYBODY??!!!

Gum-chewer: I didn't know there'd be so many, I-

Hedley Lamarr: [promptly shoots the man]

Jim the Waco Kid: Boy, is he strict!!

"I didn't know there would be so many" is an apt motto for this presidency because when it comes to problems, Biden sure didn't know there would be so many.

The New York Times filed two reports on Biden's first year and after reading them, we should be glad it  wasn't a leap year.

One report said, "Rapid Inflation Fuels Debate Over What’s to Blame: Pandemic or Policy."

The other report said, "Biden’s pandemic fight: Inside the setbacks of the first year."

The first report shows an interesting tactic on inflation. Rather than fix the problem, the president tries to figure out who or what he can blame the problem on.

The story said, "At a moment when stubbornly rapid price gains are weighing on consumer confidence and creating a political liability for President Biden, White House officials have repeatedly blamed international forces for high inflation, including factory shutdowns in Asia and overtaxed shipping routes that are causing shortages and pushing up prices everywhere. The officials increasingly cite high inflation in places including the euro area, where prices are climbing at the fastest pace on record, as a sign that the world is experiencing a shared moment of price pain, deflecting the blame away from U.S. policy."

Of course inflation is not caused by one thing alone. Shutting down pipelines and oil exploration reduced domestic production, which raised gasoline prices. Blame Biden for that.

But gasoline prices rise and fall without causing 7% inflation.

Covid interrupted the supply chain which slowed production of automobiles. Unable to buy new, people bought used cars which drove used car prices higher. Blame industry.

But people don't buy cars every three years. The average age of cars on the road is 12 years.

Meat prices are up. Biden blamed Big Meat, which is silly.

The biggest driver of higher prices is demand, and the biggest driver of consumer demand is government handouts. Blame Biden.

Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University and former Obama administration economic adviser, told NYT, "The United States has had much more inflation than almost any other advanced economy in the world."

Socialism triggers inflation and empty shelves. Bad economies are baked into the cake because socialism is bad economic policy.

NYT's second report was a chop to the throat.

It began, "Dr. Rochelle Walensky was stunned. Working from her home outside Boston on a Friday night in late July, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had just learned from members of her staff that vaccinated Americans were spreading the coronavirus."

So they knew in July that vaccinations were spreading the virus.

And yet for the next 6 months, Biden ostracized the unvaccinated, scapegoating them for his failure to address covid properly.

NYT's report provided a nice quick summary of Biden's failure:

— The White House bet the pandemic would follow a straight line, and was unprepared for the sharp turns it took. The administration did not anticipate the nature and severity of variants, even after clear warning signals from the rest of the world. And it continued to focus almost single-mindedly on vaccinations even after it became clear that the shots could not always prevent the spread of disease.

— The administration lacked a sustained focus on testing, not moving to sharply increase the supply of at-home COVID tests until the fall, with delta tearing through the country and omicron on its way. The lack of foresight left Americans struggling to find tests that could quickly determine if they were infected.

— The president tiptoed around an organized Republican revolt over masks, mandates, vaccine passports and even the vaccine itself, as he worried that pushing certain containment measures would only worsen an already intractable cultural and political divide in the country. The nation’s precarious economic health, and the political blowback that Biden and members of his party could face if it worsened, made him all the more cautious. So rather than forcing Americans to get shots, he spent months struggling to accomplish it through persuasion.

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Outside of the imaginary "organized Republican revolt over masks, mandates, vaccine passports and even the vaccine itself," NYT was accurate on his failure.

Never Trumper Paul Mirengoff wrote, "Biden’s inability to maintain public support for his anti-pandemic campaign isn’t due to Trump’s alleged battering of the CDC. Rather, it’s due to his inability to put together a well-functioning team to deal with the pandemic — a team that can hold the public’s trust by putting out clear messages and sticking to them.

"This is not a partisan Republican talking point. It’s the New York Times’ take."

Biden is in over his head.

Between his fabulism and his vacuity, Biden lives in his own little world in which he is standing up to Corn Pop and driving an 18-wheeler. Add dementia, and you have the worst of all worlds.

The media is only looking at inflation because it obscures his failure on covid.

But his biggest failures are his open borders policy and his surrender of Afghanistan. The press ignores them because if those problems were mentioned consistently on the nightly news, his approval would be in the 20s.

He had no business running. Democrats had no business cheating to elect him.

We are in a mess. The 25th Amendment can save us. Kamala may be trash but sometimes you have to roll the dice and pray.