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EVEN THE DUNCE-O-CRAT APOLOGISTS AT USA TODAY WHO PUBLISHED THIS ARTICLE, CANNOT REMOVE THE ALBATROSS FROM AROUND THE NECKS OF PRES.MORON and THE TWIT-O-CRATS.....
Biden's dilemma on inflation: Blaming the Republicans isn't a winning strategy, analysts say
WASHINGTON – The White House’s initial strategy for dealing with inflation was to assure Americans that rising prices were a short-term problem fueled by the coronavirus pandemic.
But after inflation hit a 40-year high, President Joe Biden is trying a different, two-pronged approach: Promise Americans that high prices are the administration’s top priority. Blame Republicans for failing to offer a plan to give Americans relief.
The problem with that line of attack: Democrats, not Republicans, are in charge in Washington. Blaming the party out of power for the current state of affairs is seldom a winning strategy, political analysts said.
“There’s just not a lot of evidence that these kind of arguments play to a president’s advantage,” said William Howell, political scientist at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. “In unified or divided government, presidents are held accountable for objective measures of the economy – fairly or not.”
Biden got a bit of good news Wednesday when the Labor Department reported that although inflation remained elevated in April, it eased off its 40-year high – a signal that the surge in consumer prices since last summer may have peaked.
Even so, overall consumer prices edged up 0.3% from March. Record-high gas prices – the average price per gallon was $4.40 on Wednesday, according to AAA – and a baby formula shortage add to the angst many American households feel.
~ Biden’s reassurance that higher prices are his administration’s top priority poses a dilemma for Democrats, who hold not only the White House but slim majorities in the House and the Senate. Inflation is likely to be the top issue in the midterm elections, and voters often punish the party in power for a bad economy.
~ Thirty-eight percent of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing, according to a poll released Wednesday by Fairleigh Dickinson University. Sixty-two percent say the president has “some” or “a lot” of control over inflation, a figure that included 50% of Democrats and 77% of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...pc=U531&cvid=697114389c5c4f35bf1f0ccf2db648c6
..AND HERE COMES NOVEMBER, DUNCE-O-CRATS....
Actually, aside from you speaking like a damned fool who missed the mark when it comes to the real dilemma against the common decency of humanity on Earth, and it sure is not President Biden who has reversed numerous atrocities created by the lawlessly hacked in tRump catastrophe upon humanity, and here are the reasons why:
The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts
The Trump years revealed a dark truth: The Republican Party is no longer committed to democracy. These charts tell the story.
The Republican Party is the biggest threat to American democracy today. It is a radical, obstructionist faction that has become hostile to the most basic democratic norm: that the other side should get to wield power when it wins elections.
A few years ago, these statements may have sounded like partisan Democratic hyperbole. But in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol and Trump’s acquittal in the Senate on the charge of inciting it, they seem more a plain description of where we’re at as a country.
But how deep does the GOP’s problem with democracy run, really? How did things get so bad? And is it likely to get worse?
Below are 13 charts that illustrate the depth of the problem and how we got here. The story they tell is sobering: At every level, from the elite down to rank-and-file voters, the party is permeated with anti-democratic political attitudes and agendas. And the prospects for rescuing the Republican Party, at least in the short term, look grim indeed."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22274429/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts
