{"id":1229111,"date":"2022-01-21T05:08:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1229111"},"modified":"2022-01-21T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:09:05","slug":"joe-biden-doesnt-know-what-youre-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-doesnt-know-what-youre-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Doesn\u2019t Know What You\u2019re Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-doesnt-know-what-youre-talking-about%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1229111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/\">Columns<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Column: No U-Turns for President Biden ahead of midterms<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1365699413-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"President Biden Holds A Press Conference At The White House\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1365699413.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1365699413-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1365699413-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matt\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Continetti\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Continetti<\/a> \u2022 January 21, 2022 5:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Biden begins his second year in office with a <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/?cid=rrpromo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">42 percent average job approval rating<\/a>. Republicans hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/congress-generic-ballot-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 point lead over Democrats<\/a> in the congressional generic ballot (and the generic ballot question often underestimates GOP support). The Gallup organization reports that in the final quarter of 2021 Republicans took a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/388781\/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 point lead in party identification<\/a> for the first time since 1995. As of this writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-28-house-democrats-arent-running-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28 House Democrats<\/a> have announced their retirements, with more expected to follow. Biden\u2019s agenda is stalled in Congress, the Supreme Court blocked his employer vaccine mandate, the coronavirus pandemic continues, and inflation is higher than at any point in the last 39 years. The country\u2014not to mention the president\u2014could use a reset.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not getting one. Instead, on January 19, we got Biden\u2019s combative, discursive, and delusional mess of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/19\/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 hour and 51-minute press conference<\/a>. Among the reasons the occasion was notable\u2014and notorious\u2014was that it forced the White House to clarify later Biden\u2019s comments on not one but two issues: Biden\u2019s ambiguity over America\u2019s response if Russia launches a &#8220;minor incursion&#8221; into Ukraine, and Biden\u2019s repeated assertion that the Senate\u2019s failure to pass his election takeover bills throws the legitimacy of the midterm elections into doubt. To watch Biden at the lectern was to experience shock and dismay interspersed with moments of alarm and dark humor. No wonder he hides from the media. It was the worst presidential press conference since Donald Trump stood next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s message to the 64 percent of the public that says the country is headed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/direction_of_country-902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrong direction<\/a>: Everything is fine. Biden\u2019s message to the 42 percent of the public that says <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1609\/consumer-views-economy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic conditions are poor<\/a>: You must be joking. &#8220;We created six million new jobs\u2014more jobs in one year than at any time before,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Unemployment dropped\u2014the unemployment dropped to 3.9 percent.&#8221; Yes, Biden conceded, there is &#8220;frustration and fatigue in this country.&#8221; But that is due to the pandemic. As for inflation, Biden went on, it will subside when the Federal Reserve tightens the money supply (true), when Congress passes &#8220;my Build Back Better plan&#8221; (false), and when his anti-monopoly executive orders take effect (also false). &#8220;I didn\u2019t overpromise,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;But I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one sense that\u2019s true\u2014Biden has turned out to be much worse than anybody expected. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-inflation-6b6b0abfef867fc405e9f358ce2c3a09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28 percent<\/a> of Americans say they have &#8220;a great deal of confidence&#8221; in his management of the White House. Forty-nine percent <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3831\">say<\/a> he is doing more to divide than to unite the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-inflation-6b6b0abfef867fc405e9f358ce2c3a09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Less than a third<\/a> want him to run for reelection. Biden shows no sign of taking these atrocious numbers seriously. &#8220;I don\u2019t believe the polls,&#8221; he said Wednesday. It shows.<\/p>\n<p>I had flashbacks during Biden\u2019s presser to President Obama\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/09\/08\/address-president-joint-session-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">address<\/a> to a joint session of Congress in September 2011. Like Obama, Biden didn\u2019t back down from his agenda. Like Obama, Biden challenged Republican obstructionism and tried to define the choice for the electorate between Democratic egalitarianism and Republican extremism. In retrospect, Obama\u2019s economic address was the launch of his reelection campaign. Even though his proposal never became law, he succeeded in casting his opponents in a negative light. It helped him define Mitt Romney the following year as an uncaring plutocrat and win a second term. The Obama-era retreads who fill the Biden administration\u2014including Biden himself\u2014must assume that a similar strategy will limit their losses in the midterms. They tell themselves that if they keep their heads down and soldier on, the left will remain happy, and the center will come back to the Democrats out of fear and dislike of Trump and the MAGA Squad. &#8220;What are Republicans for?&#8221; Biden said Wednesday. &#8220;What are they for? Name me one thing they are for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stopping you, for starters. And, judging by the polls, that may be enough. There are many differences between Obama in 2011 and Biden in 2022, and they don\u2019t work in the incumbent\u2019s favor. For one thing, time is running short for Biden. He has less than 10 months before Election Day. For another, Obama had a Republican House of Representatives to triangulate against. All the voters know now is that Democrats are in full control of the federal government and making a mess of it. A third difference is the state of the world. Obama\u2019s controversial first term looks like a placid oasis compared with the hellscape of today.<\/p>\n<p>Then of course there are the stylistic divergences between Obama and his former vice president. Obama was a cultural figure as well as a president, a man of distinction and suavity whose oratorical presence and position atop his party was never questioned, even if plenty of people (including me) disagreed with just about everything he ever did or said. The same isn\u2019t true of Biden. Obama is incapable of a press conference as rambling and disheveled and politically harmful as Biden\u2019s. Even Bill Clinton, four years Biden\u2019s junior, would have done better. And Clinton\u2019s been out of office for 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>Biden pledged to make some changes this year, however. Not to his White House team. Not to his vice president. According to Biden, they are all doing fine. Nor will he alter his policies. Maybe Build Back Better can pass in &#8220;chunks,&#8221; maybe Congress can reform the Electoral Count Act to prevent election subversion, but overall Biden is satisfied with himself. &#8220;Can you think of any other president that has done as much in one year?&#8221; Biden asked in one of his biggest whoppers of the afternoon. &#8220;Name one for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden doesn\u2019t want to make substantive changes. He wants a different schedule. &#8220;I\u2019m going to get out of this place more often.&#8221; Never mind that he spent <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/17\/biden-spent-quarter-of-first-year-as-president-in-delaware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a quarter of his first year<\/a> in Delaware. &#8220;I\u2019m going to go out and talk to the public.&#8221; And &#8220;now that I have time,&#8221; he\u2019s going to seek more advice from &#8220;experts outside,&#8221; including the &#8220;presidential historians&#8221; who convinced him that he is FDR and LBJ reborn and set him on the road to a 40 percent approval rating. Finally, Biden said, &#8220;We\u2019re going to be out there making sure that we\u2019re helping all those candidates.&#8221; No doubt. I, for one, can think of many candidates who Biden is helping. They are all Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columns Column: No U-Turns for President Biden ahead of midterms  Getty Images  Matthew Continetti \u2022 January 21, 2022 5:00 am President Biden begins &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}