{"id":1434646,"date":"2022-04-13T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434646"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:15:48","slug":"biden-wanted-to-restore-the-soul-of-america-heres-how-much-that-cost-you-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wanted-to-restore-the-soul-of-america-heres-how-much-that-cost-you-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Wanted To \u2018Restore The Soul of America.\u2019 Here\u2019s How Much That Cost You (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fbiden-wanted-to-restore-the-soul-of-america-heres-how-much-that-cost-you-so-far%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=1434646&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joe-Biden-Address-to-Congress-e1646151920292.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Each and every time President Biden or any given White House official appears on TV, I imagine everyone watching feels his heart drop, dead certain that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/24\/ukraine-is-one-more-problem-biden-tells-americans-to-bear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more bad news<\/a> is about to be delivered. Seriously, when was the last time any administration official said something positive?<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki\u2019s red hair flashed across my screen Monday, and I had no doubt that whatever was about to come out of her mouth was going to ruin my day. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1513584050816094217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psaki<\/a>: \u201cWe expect March [Consumer Price Index] headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin\u2019s price hike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department announced the next day that consumer prices <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/12\/bidenflation-reaches-four-decade-high-after-climbing-8-5-percent-since-last-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were up 8.5 percent<\/a> from a year ago, the highest rate of inflation in more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Never fails! It turns out the only time you can assume Psaki isn\u2019t lying is when she\u2019s telling you how bad things are or how bad they\u2019re about to get. To that end, under Biden, what exactly is going well in America?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Gas prices are up <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/07\/jen-psaki-is-a-lying-liar-who-lies-insane-gas-prices-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">almost 20 percent<\/a> from this time last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">numbers<\/a> from Customs and Border Protection show aliens are still crossing into the country at tens of thousands of numbers higher than before Biden was president. In February of last year, agents encountered 101,000 illegal border crossers. This year, 165,000. And 2021 was even well higher than in 2020 (36,000 illegal crossings) and 2019 (76,000).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014New Covid cases have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plummeted<\/a> in recent weeks, but that was after the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/10\/democrats-are-conveniently-done-with-covid-just-in-time-for-the-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highest wave of infection<\/a> throughout the entire pandemic. That one occurred between November and mid-January and nearly quadrupled the peak rate of infection seen during Trump\u2019s entire tenure as president.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Our biggest cities are seeing the highest levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/12\/if-democrats-cared-about-ending-crime-they-would-punish-criminals-not-target-law-abiding-gun-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">violent crime<\/a> than they have in decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014In what would have to be the greatest political irony in a generation, Biden and Democrats, who were hysterical about Trump supposedly being soft on Russia, have now looked on for almost two months as Vladimir Putin orders his military to fully invade <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their precious Ukraine<\/a> and murder hundreds of women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Biden\u2019s department picks play out their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/democrats-arent-just-extreme-anymore-theyre-weird-and-gross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sexual kinks in public<\/a>. (<em>Gather \u2019round, children! Rachel Levine joins us today from Human Health Services to read us a story!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>All of this is thanks to the man who promised voters he would \u201clower the temperature,\u201d \u201cbring the country together,\u201d and \u201crestore the soul of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only in Biden\u2019s America does getting your soul back and turning off the heat actually <em>cost<\/em> something. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each and every time President Biden or any given White House official appears on TV, I imagine everyone watching feels his heart drop, dead certain that more bad news is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434646","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\/1434646","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434646\/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=1434646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}