Expect Biden to deliver the opposite of his promises in State of the Union Address

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Expect Biden to deliver the opposite of his promises in State of the Union Address

Whatever President Joe Biden promises Tuesday in his State of the Union Address, expect the opposite. That’s his record.

“My whole soul” is committed to “uniting our nation,” he claimed in inauguration speech. He’d be “a president for all Americans” and “end the uncivil war that pits red against blue” and “conservative versus liberal.”

Ha! With that, he instantly began pushing a fiercely partisan agenda, refusing to negotiate with foes and demonizing Republicans, with the “Jim Crow 2.0” smear of Georgia only too typical. By last year, he was full-bore drumming up hate with claims that “MAGA Republicans” (basically all Republicans, he suggested) “threaten the very foundations of our republic.”

In his 2021 address to Congress (effectively his first State of the Union), Biden vowed to get “millions of people” back to work (after Team Trump rolled out the COVID vaccine, though Joe never mentions that). Yet he imposed vaccine and mask mandates that only made reopening harder — and proved totally unprepared for the Delta and Omicron variants. He was also caught short as supply-chain snags upended the economy.

The nation failed to recover all its lost jobs until August 2022.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/06/expect...union-address/

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Meanwhile, his “American Rescue Plan” not only slowed reopening by discouraging the return to work, it also pumped trillions of borrowed cash into the economy, triggering historic jumps in inflation. For months he insisted those price hikes were “transitory”; as inflation raged past 9% last year, he was still promising to get “prices under control.” (They’re finally getting there, thanks exclusively to the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes.)

In that first speech to Congress, by the way, he also vowed that Vice President Kamala Harris would “get the job done” in addressing “the root causes of migration.” She got nothing done; the surge of migrants at the border has only kept growing.

In last year’s SOTU, the prez promised his release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would “blunt” surging prices. They quickly surged even more (natch!), topping $5 a gallon by June — as his team continued its war on oil.

He also bragged of “joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala,” more immigration judges and steps by South and Central American countries to help stem the flow of migrants — all with spectacularly little effect. Indeed, while he and his staff have repeatedly insisted the border’s under control, migrants have been streaming in from ever-farther-away places.

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per a new ABC News/Washington Post poll (the most it’s ever found in 37 years of polling). Only 16% say they’re better off.

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Six lies Biden will tell in his State of the Union

When President Biden stands before Congress and issues his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he will proclaim victory on the nation’s economy. Most Americans are going to wonder what country he’s talking about.

Yes, the jobs market is strong, and that’s good news. But sorry, Mr. President: The American economy is not strong. It isn’t even good.

The last two years have been pretty rotten on almost every metric: the squeeze on family finances, inflation, immigration, declining test scores in schools, the budget deficit and debt, out-of-control government.

Here are six fibs you’re very likely to hear the president recite Tuesday night. They should be tagged with the label of the left’s favorite word this year: “disinformation.”[/b]


https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/six-li...-of-the-union/

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Lie #1 Biden has reduced the budget deficit by $1.4 trillion.

Actually, no president in modern times even comes close to Biden in terms of fiscal recklessness. In his first two years, the national debt has risen by more than $4.2 trillion. That’s more than in any two-year period in American history.

The deficit shot into the fiscal stratosphere of $2.8 trillion in his first year in office, and in 2022 it was still at one of history’s highest levels, $1.4 trillion. Last year, our debt as a share of our gross domestic product hit an all-time high of 129%. Biden is like a schoolkid celebrating an improved report card because the first semester he got an F but the second semester a D-minus.[/b]

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Lie #2 Biden inherited an economy in freefall.

Wrong. When COVID hit these shores in early 2020, the economy was shut down in the face of the once-in-a-half-century pandemic. But by 2020’s second half, the economy soared by more than 20%, and millions of Americans were moving back into their jobs. This was a historic recovery.

One week after the election, thanks to Operation Warp Speed, the COVID vaccine was announced, which set the table for an even stronger recovery. Instead, the economy has been limping forward with a weakling economic growth rate last year of 1.5%.[/b]

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Lie #3 Inflation was high when Biden entered office.

Huh? The average inflation rate during the Trump presidency was 2%, and in January 2021, the month Biden entered office, inflation was 1.4%. Eighteen months later, in summer 2022, inflation rose above 9% — the highest in 40 years. It ended the year at 6.5%. Food prices are still so high that CNBC just reported: “Amid food inflation, more shoppers turn to dollar stores for groceries.”

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Lie #4 Biden has brought down gas prices.

When President Donald Trump left office, the gas price was $2.59 a gallon nationally. In June 2022, it was nearly double, a modern-day high of $5.004 a gallon. Today gas is $3.48 a gallon — roughly $1 a gallon higher than when Biden entered office. And according to Gas Buddy, which provides real-time prices and projections, gas at the pump is expected to rise back to $4 a gallon this year.

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I think much of Biden's speech will be a rambling account--according to his fevered imagination--of how great he is and how he's done more than any other President... Expect to hear the word "historic" a lot. So much so, you could make a drinking game out of it and end up in the hospital from alcohol poisoning...

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Lie# 5 Biden is doing all he can to secure the border.

This may be the whopper of them all. Since Biden took office, he’s issued some 90 executive orders undoing Trump’s successful border enforcement policies — most notably stopping wall construction on the southern border and even suspending the successful “Stay in Mexico” policy (a move so wrongheaded, he was recently forced to reverse it). In 2021, there were 1.7 million border encounters, the highest ever until 2022, when that number surged above 2 million.

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Lie #6 Biden is increasing domestic oil and gas production.

Wrong. A 2022 Committee to Unleash Prosperity study by the University of Chicago’s Casey Mulligan found that oil production would be 2 million to 3 million barrels a day higher if Biden had simply followed the Trump energy plan.

America would have produced nearly $200 billion more oil last year if not for Biden’s war on fossil fuels. We wouldn’t have had to release one teaspoon of oil from our strategic reserve. Trump issued permits for drilling on 100 million acres of federal land. Biden has issued fewer drilling permits than any president since World War II’s end.

We’ll see how many of these fact-free statements Biden repeats in his State of the Union speech. But it’s highly likely the best GOP response by Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be: “Liar, liar, pants on fire.”

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