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Consensus In Washington: Biden’s ‘Very Showbiz’ Gas Tax Gimmick Panned By Everyone
President Biden's Sudden Desire To Suspend The Federal Gas Tax Has Been Derided By Economists As 'Shortsighted, Ineffective, Goofy And Gimmicky' As Well As Inflationary, Questioned By His Own Treasury Department Officials, Rejected By Congressional Republicans, And Dismissed By Prominent Democrats Because It 'Will Not Provide Meaningful Relief At The Pump' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "[On Wednesday,] the Biden Administration announced another ineffective stunt to mask th… Continue Reading
06.22.22
Biden’s Inflation Bummer Summer With A Bummer From Summers
Inflation Is Seeping In To Every Aspect Of Americans' Lives, Making Everything People Enjoy Doing During Summer More Expensive, While Small Businesses And Even Local Governments Struggle With Increasing Costs, All Of Which Have Economists Seeing A Recession As More Likely Americans Are Facing A 'Bummer Summer' Because 'A Lot Of Things We Love To Do In The Summer' Will Cost More This Year "This is the least pandemic-y summer in two years, but inflation is dragging down the celebration. Mos… Continue Reading
06.14.22
Biden’s Inability To Tackle ‘White-Hot Inflation’ Cripples Families’ Budgets
With Prices Rising Even Higher Over The Last Month, And Gas Prices Eclipsing $5 Per Gallon, Families Are Now Having To Spend An Extra $460 Each Month To Keep Up With Inflation, And The Only Response The White House Can Muster Is Self-Pity Followed By Recycled Messaging Strategies, None Of Which Have 'Yielded Any New Direct Measures To Lower Costs' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Runaway inflation has pushed workers and families to the breaking point. According to one recent… Continue Reading
06.10.22
‘Brutal’ CPI Report Shows American Families Suffering Under Biden’s Historic Inflation Surge
Despite President Biden Confidently Predicting 'It's The Peak Of The Crisis' And That Prices Would Start Going Down Exactly Six Months Ago, Inflation In May 'Hit A Fresh 40-Year High,' Bringing 'Into Sharp Relief Just How Inescapable Inflation Has Become For Millions Of American Households' As Price Increases For Food, Energy, And Housing Make Families Struggle To Afford The Most Basic Expenses Inflation In May 'Unexpectedly' Increased 8.6% Year-On-Year, 'A Fresh 40-Year High' "US inflati… Continue Reading
06.08.22
Biden’s Energy Policies Have Americans Bracing For An Expensive Summer Punctuated By Blackouts
After Campaigning On Ending Fossil Fuels, President Biden Has Spent A Year Implementing Policies That Have Made Energy Prices Skyrocket, With The Price Of Gas Doubling And Electricity Rates Predicted To 'Rise By As Much As 233 Percent,' Even As Utilities Warn Of More Blackouts From Decreased Generating Capacity SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "In 2019, while running for the White House, President Biden made a public promise: 'I guarantee you we're going to end fossil fuels.'… Continue Reading
06.07.22
Biden’s Inflation Surge Hits Americans Who Can Least Afford It
Rampant Inflation Is Squeezing Americans Of Modest Means And Fixed Incomes Between Skyrocketing Gas Prices, More Costly Groceries, And Higher Rents For Even The Most Traditionally Affordable Housing SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "For families across America, the long holiday weekend also kicked off the excitement of summer traditions. But unfortunately, a year and a half into the failed policies of this all-Democrat government, even modest family celebrations came with pri… Continue Reading
05.24.22
Democrats Showered States And Schools With Money They Didn’t Need, And Americans Got Inflation And A Mountain Of Wasteful Spending
Democrats Ignored Republicans' Warnings That $350 Billion For States And Over $120 Billion For Schools In Their Partisan Spending Bill Last Year Were Excessive And Inflationary, And Subsequent Reporting Has Shown That States Didn't Need The Money And Are Now Blowing It On Wasteful Projects, While School Districts Have Spent Next To None Of What They Received 'The Fact Is The Fiscal Armageddon That Covid-19 Was Expected To Bring To' State Governments 'Never Happened,' 'Instead, States Are F… Continue Reading
05.19.22
As Skyrocketing Energy Prices Pummel Americans With ‘Stagflationary Effects,’ The Biden Administration Shuts Down Yet More Domestic Energy Production
Americans Are Struggling With Massive Increases In Costs For Gasoline, Natural Gas, And Electricity, Yet The Biden Administration Obliviously Plows Ahead With Shutting Down More Oil & Gas Leasing And All Democrats In Congress Have To Offer Is Show Votes On Bad Legislation Economists Deride As 'Dangerous Nonsense' That Wouldn't Have 'Any Substantial Effect' On Inflation SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Getting to work, running errands, driving to church, visiting loved on… Continue Reading
05.17.22
After Democrats Went Whole Hog On Spending, Americans’ Wallets Get Seared By Inflation
Poll After Poll Shows 'The Cost Of Living Remains The Public's Top Issue Facing The Country,' With Food And Fuel Prices Squeezing Families, Farmers, And Restaurants, Yet House Democrats Seem To Have Only 'Recently' Discovered This Reality After Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA)'s Revelation That Bacon Is Expensive SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The country just received yet another terrible inflation report. Yet again, overall inflation came in higher than expected: 8.3 percent. In… Continue Reading
05.02.22
Pickle Ball Courts, CRT Training, Parking Meter Readers, And Golf Course Irrigation: The Wasteful Legacy Of Biden’s Slush Fund For State And Local Governments
As Democrats Prepared To Pass Their Massive $1.9 Trillion Left-Wing Wish List Of Stimulus Spending Last Year, President Biden Asked, 'What Would They Have Me Cut?' Senate Republicans' Answer: The $350 Billion State And Local Slush Fund That Predictably Financed A Smorgasbord Of Wasteful Projects Unrelated To The Pandemic SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Democrats spent two trillion dollars of the American people's money and purchased the worst inflation in more than 40 years… Continue Reading
04.28.22
As Inflation Shrinks Americans’ Paychecks, Democrats’ New Plan Is To Raise Their Taxes
Democrats Have Gone From Denying Inflation Was A Problem, To Insisting That Even More Spending Was The Inflation Solution, To Now Saying That 'The Only Way To' 'Get Rid Of Inflation' Is To Raise Taxes On Americans! SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Runaway inflation is crushing working American families on Democrats' watch. The share of Americans who say the economy is our most important problem hasn't been this high since the last time Democrats controlled the White House&helli… Continue Reading
04.12.22
As Biden’s Inflation Hammers Americans, Economists Warn A Subsequent Recession Is ‘Virtually Inevitable’
'Costs For Food, Gasoline, Housing And Other Necessities [Are] Squeezing American Consumers And Wiping Out The Pay Raises That Many People Have Received' And Economists Are Now Warning That This Painful Inflation Is Likely To Lead To A Recession (U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Press Release, 4/12/2022) Inflation In March Increased 8.5% Year-On-Year 'Its Fastest Pace In More Than 40 Years,' And The Tenth Straight Month In Which Inflation Exceeded 5% "Inflation soared ove… Continue Reading
03.29.22
Americans Place The Blame For Inflation And Soaring Gas Prices Right Where It Belongs: On President Biden’s Policies
Recent Polls Show Americans Aren't Buying The Lame Spin From The White House And Democrats In Congress About Inflation And High Gas Prices Being The Fault Of Everything But Their Own Policies SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "America's working families continue to face strong headwinds as they try to make ends meet. The historic inflation kicked off by runaway liberal spending last year is still taking its toll, one paycheck at a time…. Unfortunately, Washington Democr… Continue Reading
03.14.22
Democrats’ Gaslighting About Their Inflationary Spending Is So Bad It’s Insulting
Polling Shows Americans Rightly Blame President Biden For The Historic Inflation Burdening Families And Small Businesses And Aren't Buying Democrats' Absurd Attempts To Explain It Away, Which Contradict Both Economic Experts And Democrats' Own Prior Admissions That 'The Spending That We Did' Contributed To Inflation Democrats Are Desperately Trying To Gaslight The American Public About Their Inflationary Spending PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: "We have to talk about it because the American people th… Continue Reading
03.10.22
Biden’s Presidency: Nine Straight Months Of Inflation Exceeding 5% And The Most Expensive Gas Prices In U.S. History
'The Fastest Pace Of Inflation In 40 Years' And The Highest Gas Prices In U.S. History Are Hammering Ordinary Americans, With 'Nearly Every Category Of Goods And Services' Increasing In Price Over The Last Month SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Everybody knows that gas prices and energy costs have been soaring sharply for many months. Working families know all too well that gas prices and utility costs have been rising throughout President Biden's tenure. Just this morning, … Continue Reading
03.04.22
‘Build Back Better?’ Never Heard Of It!
The Only Thing More Obvious Than This Photoshop Is Democrats' Efforts To Hawk The Same Bad Policies From Their Reckless Taxing And Spending Spree As A 'New' Proposal SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): 'I Don't Know Where That Came From … Nothing's Changed' SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): "I don't know where that came from…. Nothing's changed." ("Manchin Pours Water On Biden's Attempt To Revive Build Back Better," The Hill, 3/01/2022) SEN. MANCHIN: "I've never found out that you can l… Continue Reading
03.02.22
Biden’s State Of The Union Address Maligned For Its Myriad Manifest Failures
President Biden's Speech Was Panned For Being 'Totally Out Of Step With Reality For Where Most Americans Are,' Dinged By Fact-Checkers, Featured 'An Unusual Number' Of Gaffes, And Highlighted Intra-Democratic Feuds On Spending, Inflation, And Defunding The Police SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Last night, President Biden gave a State of the Union address that might have worked okay for a popular administration that had been successfully tackling America's problems and earning… Continue Reading
03.01.22
Biden Still Falsely Claiming His Taxing And Spending Plans Somehow ‘Will Lower Your Costs And Lower The Deficit’
"During Tuesday's State of the Union, Biden will recast his stalled Build Back Better agenda as an opportunity to rein in the debt, arguing that the sweeping child care, climate and health care package can lower costs for both Americans and the federal government, senior administration officials said ahead of the speech." ("Biden Throws A Line To Joe Manchin And Hopes He Bites," Politico, 3/01/2022) PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: "My plan to fight inflation will lower your costs and lower the deficit." (… Continue Reading
03.01.22
Economists Dismiss Dems’ Inflation Gimmicks As Both Political And Pointless
Even Economists Friendly To Democrats Are Unimpressed With The Political Stunts Dems In Congress Have Trotted Out As Unserious Ways To Grapple With The Inflation Their Reckless Spending Has Unleashed SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Washington Democrats' inflation is slamming consumers with the highest prices in 40 years. One of the toughest blows has been the soaring cost of a trip to the gas station. … So, after triggering an historic run of inflation… our Democ… Continue Reading
02.28.22
Democrats Suddenly Desperate To Discuss The Inflation Their Policies Caused
LEADER McCONNELL: 'This Was A Policy Choice. This All-Democrat Government Was Warned Their Radical Agenda Would Supercharge Inflation And They Pushed Ahead Anyway. And Our Country Is Paying The Price' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The cost of essentials has absolutely exploded since Washington Democrats took power. And to be clear, the worst inflation in 40 years is not something that just spontaneously happened to Democrats on their watch. As a Pew report demonstrated late … Continue Reading
