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2021-05-14 Home Front: Politix
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Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?
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Pat Buchanan at TownHall
On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had dealt him a pair of aces.
The COVID-19 pandemic had reached its apex, infecting a quarter of a million Americans every day. Yet, due to the discovery and distribution of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the incidence of infections had crested and was about to turn sharply down.
By May, the infection rate had fallen 80%, as had the death toll.
Thanks to the Operation Warp Speed program driven by President Donald Trump, the country made amazing strides in Biden's first 100 days toward solving the major crises he inherited: the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918-1919 and the economic crash it had engendered.
But Biden's pace car has hit the wall.
...April's combination of inflation and near-stagnant job growth recalls the "stagflation" of the Jimmy Carter years, which led to the Democratic rout of 1980 at the hands of Ronald Reagan.
And while we may not be suffering from stagflation just yet, the present symptoms in the U.S. economy are certainly consistent with it.
The bad news from the inflation front also sent the Dow and other markets plunging and raised fears of future Fed intervention to raise interest rates to choke off the inflation.
Moreover, rising prices, driven in part by our historic federal deficits, stiffened the spines of Republicans in their resistance to Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs program, his $1.8 trillion in added domestic spending and his $4 trillion in taxes to pay for it all.
Sen. Mitch McConnell came out of Wednesday's White House meeting with Biden to say that any tampering with the Trump tax cuts crosses a "red line" for him and Senate Republicans.
The odds on Biden getting any of his taxes has just fallen dramatically. And he may be forced to come down closer to the GOP proposal if he hopes to get any of his infrastructure package through.
At present, Biden does not have a single sure Republican vote for his spending proposals -- and even some Democrats in the evenly divided Senate oppose his plans for social spending and higher taxes.
Added to this economic news was a stunning ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, which feeds fuel to states from Texas to New Jersey.
Within days, the shutdown of the pipeline had induced panic buying of gas at the pumps, resulting in a sweeping closure of gas stations from Delaware to the Gulf Coast.
...But the defining crisis of the Biden presidency may be the crisis on America's southern border, where another 170,000 illegal immigrants entered the country in April after an equally high number in March.
That is an annual rate of 2 million people walking into our country uninvited, the advance guard of a Third World invasion that will change the character and composition of the United States.
The America we grew up in is disappearing -- without our consent.
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