OPINION:
As polls indicate that roughly only 1 in 3 Americans approves of his performance, President Biden has responded incongruously with self-congratulatory rhetoric. The inverse relationship between the president’s popularity and pronouncements is striking.
As inflation races past income and families are forced to choose between eating or driving, Mr. Biden responds blithely, “Look, here’s where we are. We have the fastest growing economy in the world. The world. The world.”
Facing reports that health-care costs rose some 8.6% in past year and almost two-thirds of Americans now avoid or delay health care, Mr. Biden daydreams out loud that he’s “proposing” we reduce health-care costs.
Gas prices have doubled to historic highs since Mr. Biden took office. His response? That we’ve made “some real moves” in climate change. Ignoring his own anti-fossil-fuel regulatory roadblocks, he instead targets oil companies, blaming them for the skyrocketing costs and telling Jimmy Kimmel recently, “We have to get the message across in a way that is understandable to people like the folks in my family. … Tell people just what the facts are.” Well, people already know what the facts are. The price is on the gas pump.
What’s more, our oblivious president missed the obvious self-application of his words when he highlighted for Mr. Kimmel “the need for significant mental health proposals, relating to people who are feeling, not knowing where they’re going, not knowing how to respond, not knowing how to act.”
JONATHAN IMBODY
Atlantic Beach, Florida
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