Joe Biden's op-ed is malarkey

Joe Biden allegedly wrote this op-ed touting his signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, which doesn't reduce inflation. In the op-ed, he highlighted 3 key points.

The first point highlighted is that, in Joe's own words, "First, we are lowering costs for working families. We are giving Medicare the power to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. Seniors will pay less for their prescription drugs. The big drug companies spent nearly $100 million to beat this law. We prevailed." If these things are great and important, why are some of these provisions not implemented until 2025?

Personally, I'd make Democrat senators eat Biden's second point. Biden's second point says "Second, in this historic moment, Democrats sided with the American people and Republicans sided with the special interests. Every single Republican voted against lower prescription drug prices, against lower health care costs and against a fairer tax system. Every single Republican voted against tackling the climate crisis, against lowering energy costs and against creating good-paying jobs."

That's just stunning! First, people fighting for the Green New Deal who aren't part of a special interest organization number in the dozens. Climate change exists but it isn't a crisis. Thanks to American innovation, the US emissions are heading in the right direction. Of all the signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement, the US is the only nation heading in the right direction. Next, if Democrats sided with "the American people", why do the American people, in overwhelming numbers, think that the nation is heading in the wrong direction? If Democrats are siding with the American people, why haven't Joe Manchin's approval ratings improved? Right now, they're cratering.

Biden insist that "[e]very single Republican voted against lower prescription drug prices, against lower health care costs and against a fairer tax system." That's a steaming pile of BS. Republicans voted against a bill that, at best, won't do a thing to help with inflation. Republicans didn't vote for major tax hikes that will deepen the recession that we're currently in. There's nothing fair about a tax system that passes the cost of taxes onto consumers in higher prices, onto employees in the form of lower wages or stingier benefits or onto pension plans in the form of lower yields on their investments.

By comparison, every Democrat voted to a) double the size of the IRS, b) increase home heating bills and c) shift jobs from good-paying energy industry jobs that are union jobs here in the US while exporting Green New Deal jobs off to China. That's right. Every Democrat senator, including Sen. Cortez-Masto in Nevada, Sen. Kelly in Arizona, Sen. Hassan in New Hampshire, Sen. Bennet in Colorado, Sen. Tester in Montana and Sen. Manchin in West Virginia, voted for this still-massive spending bill. Every Democrat representative in the House, including so-called moderates like Angie Craig and Dean Phillips in Minnesota, voted for this monstrosity in Pelosi's House. When push came to shove, every elected Democrat in DC voted like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and AOC, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib.

In fact, every Democrat voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, which will likely increase inflation, and for the American Rescue Plan, aka the COVID Relief Bill, which only spent approximately 10% of the $1,900,000,000,000 on COVID supplies. The American Rescue Plan is the spending bill that ignited the spike in inflation. These so-called moderates are nothing of the sort. The definition of Democrat moderates are Democrats before they get a voting record. Once they start voting, the moderate adjective doesn't fit anymore.

Biden's third point is BS:

Third, we demonstrated that government can work for working families. There are those who hold a dark and despairing view of this country. Too often, we hand the biggest microphone to the critics and the cynics who delight in declaring defeat. We confuse noise with substance and obstacles with the end. The work of governing is hard. It’s frustrating and slow. It requires compromise. Making progress in a country as big and complicated as ours isn’t easy. It never has been.

The Democrats compromised with each other. The bill wasn't passed through a committee. It was negotiated behind closed doors between a corrupt NY politician like Chuck Schumer and a spineless politician like Joe Manchin. Democrats weren't interested in getting Republicans' votes. They weren't interested in putting America first. Far-Left Democrats compromised with somewhat less Far-Left Democrats. Democrats should enjoy their short-lived victory because it'll be wiped out (for the most part) by the end of 2025 under unified GOP governance in DC. At the end of this video, Biden hands Judas Iscariot, aka Joe Manchin, his 30 pieces of silver, aka his signing pen: